Polish
muti-instrumentalist releases a bizarre but lovely labour of love!
I have to admit I'm not
that familiar with the first LP by Egg, being still in nappies when
it was released. My earliest musical memories coming a few years
later and limited to the glam pop and tartan-clad boy bands prevalent
on AM radio at the time. Anyway thanks to the powers of the Internet
I've learnt that Egg were a three-piece prog band who signed to Decca
in 1969 and released and eponymous debut LP a year later.
Fast forward 47 years
and in a bizarre labour of love, Polish multi-instrumentalist Kris
Gietkowski has decided to record a full length LP featuring most of
the songs from Egg's first LP. Notice that that's most and not all,
as the press release explains - “it's only 'most of' as one of the
tracks would have taken him months to learn and he didn't fancy the
ten second intro track on the original album.”
Reading that I knew I'd
just love this LP, regardless of how it sounded. But anyway it sounds
pretty good. A fully instumental album full of jazz-prog organ
fugues, proto math-rock and quasi-classical passages in what I'm led
to believe is a fairly faithful replica of the original LP. And it
comes as a colour-in-colour vinyl LP, yellow in white to look like a
poached egg. How can any self-respecting vinyl freak not dig that
right!?!
Released as a
colour-in-colour vinyl LP on April 17th. (300 copies only)
Click here for Fruits
de Mer Records.
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