WATER INTO WINE BAND Hill Climbing For Beginners LP/1973 UK/Xian Prog Folk/Myrrh
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WATER INTO WIND BAND 'Hill Climbing For Beginners' LP (UK, Spiral Groove, Catalogue #SGLP3006) Brand new/unplayed copy of superior, limited Spiral Groove label LP edition of 1973 UK Top Xian Progressive Folk album by the Water Into Wine Band. This is the superior original UK recorded version of the album, which had rerecorded versions presented for the original US edition which was released soon after.
(NOTE: ORIGINAL UK MIX!/LIMITED VINYL EDITION!)
'Probably the best album to appear on the leading Myrrh label, established as a division of Word Records by Billy Ray Hearn in 1972. This was the debut recording for the British outfit, Water Into Wine Band, which appeared in different forms on both sides of the Atlantic in the mid-'70s. Although Myrrh enjoyed some commercial success with cross-over artist Amy Grant, whose secular albums were marketed by A&M and were also able to boast CCM albums from the likes of Billy Preston, Mighty Clouds Of Joy, Al Green and even Cliff Richard, from a musical perspective, Hill Climbing... was in an altogether different league. The band was formed at Cambridge University by four extremely accomplished musicians, two of whom were to go on to perform with a major orchestra, and Hill Climbing..., or at least the UK version presented here (Myrrh, feeling the album too raw for the sensitive American market, shipped the band to the States to do an anodyne re-record), has gone on to achieve the status of a progressive folk masterpiece. The album is beautifully recorded and the exotic array of instruments including bongos, timpani, gongs and violins, combine wonderfully to produce a recording of musical and technical brilliance. An extremely good album and highly recommended.'
- Spiral Groove reissues on vinyl the 1973 album by British Jesus-prog-folk band Water Into Wine Band.- Poorly-sold upon release, this album is now a highly-valued collector's item in weirdo '70s Xtian folk realms.
- The band played shows with Cliff Richard.
- "Hill Climbing for Beginners showed the band to be thoughtful crafters of chamber folk. Bill Thorp's violin work was dazzling, some of the vocal harmonies truly haunting and the 11-minute epic 'Song of the Cross' one of the most ambitious works ever attempted by a UK Christian band." --Cross Rhythms
Tracks on this LP are as follows:
- Stranger In The World (4:22)
- I Used To Be Blind (5:26)
- Jesus I've Been Walking (6:45)
- Hill Climbing For Beginners (3:29)
- The Start Of A Run (3:35)
- Song Of The Cross (11:00)
- I Have Seen The Lord (4:41)
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Record shipped in professional, superior rectangular shaped, corner-protecting corrugated cardboard record mailer with filler pads. Satisfaction guaranteed!
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