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Artist:	CANTERBURY GLASS
Title:	Sacred Scenes and Characters
Label:	ORK (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	ORK 005CD

"Mainstays of the band Canterbury Glass, Malcolm Ironton and Mike Hall were Hornsey Art College students, where Pink Floyd developed their experimental light shows. An early brush with Pye and John Schroeder, releasing a duo single as Mick and Malcolm, led to them building up a band and playing the university circuit. Malcolm's formative years in the Royal School Of Church Music singing at venues such as Westminster Cathedral and Canterbury Cathedral, combined with his more recent experience playing supports to Caravan, Ten Years After, Jimi Hendrix, and regular stints at the Middle Earth, shaped his view of rock music when it came time to write material for the newly christened Canterbury Glass. Recording at Olympic Studios in 1969, with Chris Kimsey in the chair, the group delivered a full on concept rock chorale, which included a guest appearance by future Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett (the track 'Prologue'). Bids from Polydor, EMI and CBS were played off against each other by the band's manager, who duly lost the lot and the album remained unreleased (though it did reach the front cover stage; the artwork survived and we have it here). A further session track from a Regent Sound session has since been recovered and added to this rather unique package."

Artist:	CANTERBURY GLASS
Title:	Sacred Scenes and Characters
Label:	STAMFORD AUDIO (UK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$33.00
Catalog #:	STAM 1007LP

"The first engineering job for the great producer Chris Kimsey (famed for his later work with The Rolling Stones, Yes, ELP, INXS among many others), featuring legendary Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett on 'Prologue', and with future Whitesnake drummer Dave Dowle in the line-up, this album, a psychedelic/progressive crossover with church-music and bluesy influences, was made by a group of musicians very much on the London underground 'scene' of the time, playing gigs at Middle Earth and The Electric Garden, supporting Hendrix, supported by John Peel and pitched to CBS and Polydor, both of whom failed to pick up on a fabulous and original piece of work by a band which, on the strength of these songs, deserved more recognition. At the time of a 2007 CD release on Ork Records/RPM, 2 tracks ('Battle Hymn' and 'The Roman Head Of A Marble Man') could not be found, but after Simon Ashley at Stamford Audio contacted Malcolm Ironton late in 2009 to arrange releasing the album on vinyl, he searched again and, this time, the search bore fruit! Listening to all of the original tracks together again, he remembered that 'Gloria' had been intended as the last track on the album and 'Battle Hymn' finished off side one, so 'The Roman Head Of A Marble Man' then slotted in between 'Prologue' and 'Gloria' on side two and we now had the original running order for the vinyl LP, as it should have been issued all those years ago." 180 gram vinyl pressing housed in a deluxe gatefold sleeve.

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