Have you checked out the Gueressen label yet??

Unfortunately, on this side of the Atlantic, many assume that the best vinyl reissues are coming out of America, on labels like Analogue Productions, Audio Fidelity, MOFI, ORG and others. While there is a lot of great, fine sounding stuff coming out from these labels, it tends to not veer too far from the well travelled path of warhorse classic rock and jazz. Sundazed sometimes mines the roads less travelled, and there are a few specialty labels that do so also.

But the real treasures are coming out on European labels, and the Gueressen label is up for discussion today http://www.guerssen.com/empresa.html?idioma=eng - a fine label out of Spain producing very high quality, low run pressings of lesser known, highly sought after gems from both major label catalogs and highly obscure private pressings. Virtually all are analog sourced and the production values are very high.

July's self titled album from 1968, is a minor masterpiece of psychedelic pop/rock that has been well known to fans of the genre for many decades. A UK band that had a following overseas but never played America, Gueressen have given this one a faithful flipback cover, a superb pressing and a remarkable sound that brings this obscurity to life.


Irish Coffee is another little known European gem, early 70's in the vein of Purple and Heep, just a smoking hot guitar here, and another excellent sounding remaster. Great 180g pressing too.

NGC-4594, a Connecticut band whose 1967 psychedelic masterpiece "What Really Means" has been a deep cult rarity for decades, is a fine example of the labels' eagerness to search out the most obscure masterpieces that could only be reissued in Europe. It's hard to think that something so cosmic could come out of 1967 - this was really very far ahead of it's time, and the Guressen reissue sounds like it was recorded yesterday. A trip that you just must take.

Killing Floor's "Out Of Uranus" came out on the UK Penny Farthing label in 1970. The Gueressen reisue is outstanding. This is a sought after hard rock/blues rock record that gets into more trippy space on ocassion, the band were quite well known in the UK and on the continent at the time, but never were mainsteam enough to go anywhere. Excellent sound, faithful cover, interesting insert, an interesting piece of minor history.

There's more out there on the fine Gueressen label, all very well remastered from true deep music lovers and I understand fully authorized and licensed.

There are many other fine labels in Europe doing heroic work, and to start, I highly recommend you get on board the Gueressen trip.