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Artist:	COMUS
Title:	First Utterance
Label:	BREATHLESS
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	BREATH 52002

Delayed reissue of the first Comus album, originally issued in 1971. Includes the three tracks from the "Diana" single on Dawn. "Comus' first album contains an imaginative if elusive brand of experimental folk-rock, with a tense and sometimes distressed vibe. Although there are elements of traditional British folk music, there's an edginess to the songwriting and arrangements that would be entirely alien in a Fairport Convention or Pentangle disc. At times, this straddles the border between folk-rock and the kind of songs you'd expect to be sung at a witches' brew fest, the haunting supernatural atmosphere enhanced by bursts of what sound like a theramin-like violin, hand drums, flute, oboe, ghostly female backup vocals, and detours into almost tribal rhythms."

Artist:	COMUS
Title:	First Utterance
Label:	EARMARK (ITALY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$29.00
Catalog #:	EAR 42075LP

New double LP version, perhaps just a big heftier and more deluxe than the Get Back 2LP; as w/ that previous version, the group's famous 1971 3-track EP is included as a bonus. 180 gram pressing. "This first album is rock music only by association. Taking British folk as a point of departure, the music twists and oozes as a vile bunch of snakes, pairing gorgeous melodies and expert playing to ecstatically altered vocals and vicious lyrics. Rape, murder, witchcraft and abuse are main ingredients to the menu, which is cooked with raging madness, but still manages to taste delicately composed. One of the very few British folk LPs that creates a totally new, dangerous and utterly unique atmosphere. Obligatory music!!" -- Marcel Koopman (The Tapestry Of Delights).

Artist:	COMUS
Title:	First Utterance
Label:	GET BACK (ITALY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	GET 541

"The first LP is rock music only by association. Taking British folk as a point of departure, the music twists and oozes as a vile bunch of snakes, pairing gorgeous melodies and expert playing to ecstatically altered vocals and vicious lyrics. Rape, murder, witchcraft and abuse are main ingredients to the menu, which is cooked with raging madness, but still manages to taste delicately composed. One of the very first British folk albums that creates a totally new, dangerous and utterly unique atmosphere." -- Marcel Koopman. The second disc in this Get Back reissue is a 12" EP with 3 bonus tracks from their 1971 7" on Down Records featuring "Diana" (single version) and 2 non-album tracks. The classic weird-folk British album from 1970, more recently infamous for influence on Current 93's sound in the 90s. Pretty nicely done full color gatefold sleeve and reproduced insert.

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