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Van Perkins And Guests - Invitation To Paradise



Van Perkins And Guests - Invitation To Paradise

Tone Poet Productions TPS-1001

1970?

This is the original pressing!

Weird ISM Incredibly Strange Music

Private pressing from Los Angeles, California

Fascinating Xian Loner Spiritual Deep Soul Jazz-Funk

The Guests include Dorothy Ashby on harp and vibraphone by Terry Gibbs; other instruments include electric bass, drums, guitar, keyboards, alto saxophone, flute, and bassoon.

I never open sealed records and I waited years for another copy to turn up eBay. I’ve given up hope looking, so I’m just going to sell my only copy here. This one definitely looks interesting. I have heard several soundclips in the past on a now gone defunct website and they were truly great! “Invitation To Paradise” certainly isn’t remotely anything like your traditional Black Gospel LP. This is a very intense and passionate stark Downer / Loner Folk kind of sound, created by Van, that blends his great vocal range with stark solemn brooding presences, mystical harp sounds, a boss-nova beat, Soul, Jazz, and Funk into his own unique other worldly kind of sound. Still unknown to most of the big time collectors, it should have huge crossover appeal!

Weird Liner Notes:

LISTEN closely and you will discover a “New Vocal Idiom” . . . personally and imaginatively communicating with you.

COME and soar with “VAN” into the magnificence of outer space and time . . . Become involved within the most sublime theme of the universe . . . LOVE! . . . AGAPE . . . then return to the “here and now” . . . rewarded, refreshed and committed.

This experience you have no doubt longed for . . . in times like these . . .

This experience is here for YOU . . . an INVITATION TO PARADISE!

Record = presumed Mint (Sealed)

Cover = Mint (Sealed)

Side One:

1. Invitation To Paradise (Van Perkins)

2. Summerset (Van Perkins)

3. Light The Lamps Of Love (Van Perkins)

4. The Soft Spoken Stranger (Eden Ahbez)

5. Overshadowed

6. Invitation To Paradise / Largo (Van Perkins)

Side Two:

1. God Speaks

2. Green Valleys

3. It Takes Everything

4. In Times Like These

5. The Lord’s Prayer

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