Golden Pavilion new releases on 180g vinyl, direct from Portugal. Limited to 500 copies, and I have every reason to believe that they really are only pressed to 500 - and then, that's the end.
I was disappointed by the last LP I got from Golden Pavilion - Dragon's "Kalahen", apparently the source used was very poor, but actually, sonically that one turned out fantastic - and the heavy prog in the grooves, reminding me more of groups like Jonesy and even at parts early Crimson, was just superb and completely, uniquely, not commercial. The pressing sucked, though, and no amount of elbow grease could rescue it.
Not so here. Two super pressings and sonic gems.
Bob Thiel's So Far is a 1970's folk-prog masterpiece, unknown at the time, highly reminiscent of Roy Harper's HQ period, even hinting a bit at Meddle era Floyd. Thiel is an excellent song writer, many tracks are lengthy and could be termed folk-prog tone poems. Very worthwhile. Great sounding. Five doobies recommendation.
Tone poems for rock band is what Swedish group Life's self titled LP is about. Originally on Harvest, this is the rare English sung version, not even a slight hint that English is not the mother tongue here, and a fine testament to how ahead of their time European bands were in the 1970's, very much like UK bands Nucleus and Soft Machine who show that jazz-rock really was adopted abroad well before the more mainstream variants that appeared and became popular in the US. Another fine record unearthed by Golden Pavilion, and a fine pressing in exemplary sound.
I have to wonder how these European labels manage to get such great sound and yet produce such limited pressing runs, and still manage to stay afloat. Yet, they do - and I strongly recommend you support labels, like Golden Pavilion, that are exploring rare, unique music that deserves to be heard again, way more than another boring rehash of The Doors, or Black Sabbath, or Cat Stevens.
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