Balaklava

Artist: Pearls Before Swine
Label: Get Back Italy
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 8013252101021
ASIN: B00005NNHQ

Release Date: 1999-08-11

Balaklava

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Tracks:

Trumpeter Landfrey...Translucent Carriages
Images Of April
There Was A Man
I Saw The World
Guardian Angels
Suzanne
Lepers And Roses
Florences Nightingale...Ring Thing

Album Description

Reissue of the folky/ arty pop group's second album, originally released on ESP in 1968. Their last outing for the label, 'Balaklava' is more experimental than their debut& features 10 tracks. Each of the 1,000 numbered copies pressed up for this limited edition release comes in a miniaturized LP sleeve with the original cover art intact. 1998 Get Back Records release.

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Customer Reviews:

Haunting.......2002-12-13

Haunting, beautiful, melancholic, distant songs. Melodies drift and remain fairly under-developed -- in other words, most of the songs don't have a clear "hook" or memorable stanza...but yet they cast a general spell. I enjoy it and am touched by it. The Leonard Cohen cover is actually one of the weakest tracks.

Peerless.......2001-07-12

If you thought PBS were unknown in the US, try the UK! I came across this album around 1972 or so.. did not even know if the band was called Balaklava OR Pearls Before Swine. No one had ever heard of them! But i loved that cover.. and went for it.

How well i remember listening to it, on long summer evenings. It is a truly haunting album, one of the very finest i've ever heard anywhere.. and the beginning Trumpeter Landfrey/Translucent Carriages I remember with a chill. Those whispers.. the sad grandeur of the lyrics.

Hard to explain to those who have not heard it, and maybe the zeitgeist for such music is long passed. But here was something truly extraordinary. I'd lump this album as a top 5 all-time favourite. And i hope you will too. Enjoy!

Flashback.......2000-12-28

I first enjoyed this album in 1970. A friend, browsing through bargain bins found it and brought it home because he liked the cover...a common occurrence, I imagine. We listened to it once and were hooked...going on to find "One Nation Underground", "These Things Too", and "Use of Ashes". All these years later, while browsing...this time on the net...I found a webpage on PBS, indicating CD's for sale. I'm amazed...I've never met ANYone else who even knew of this group. A kind son gave me "Balaklava" and "One Nation Underground" for Christmas...and I'm still hooked...just ordered "Constructive Melancholy". It's like running into old friends...who haven't changed...who are maybe even better than remembered. The melodies, use of instruments, lyrics...all stand the test of time. If you've never heard them...take the chance...and welcome to the club! Thanks PBS...for then and now!

Bring back the Cleft Palate.......2000-06-25

You had to have been a habitue of the East Village, circa 1965 to have even heard of this group. I can only say that the music they produced is as fresh and as innovative now as it was then. Tom Rapp (he of the cleft palate and lead singer) is one of the most distinctive interpreters in the history of music, absolutely nonpareil. These are some of the most plaintive, poetic recordings you're ever going to come across. I urge you, if you are into discovering little-known masterworks , to buy this disc.

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