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Artist:	HOWELL & JOHN FERDINANDO, PETER
Title:	Alice Through The Looking Glass
Label:	ACME (UK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	HANDF 001LP

"For the first time ever, here's a vinyl reissue of the mega-rare and legendary UK acid-folk private pressing from 1969. At the time, only a handful of copies were pressed, and so, as an original, this is a Ł1500-plus top of the league rarity! This official reissue has come from the original masters and directly transferred by Peter Howell himself from the original machine that recorded the album and comes with an exact reproduction of the original album sleeve for the very first time since 1969! A strictly limited edition of 500 copies only on deluxe DMM vinyl, shrinkwrapped and stickered."

Artist:	HOWELL & JOHN FERDINANDO, PETER
Title:	Alice Through The Looking Glass
Label:	ACME GRAMOPHONE/LION PRODUCTIONS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	ACLN 1015CD

"The first release (1969) from the home studio of future BBC Radiophonic Workshop composer Peter Howell (he wrote the second version of the Doctor Who theme tune for BBC-TV) and his musical partner John Ferdinando, makers of legendary albums under the names Ithaca, Agincourt, Friends, and Tomorrow Come Someday. This private press record was recorded as a musical backdrop for a stage version of Alice through the Looking Glass by local amateur dramatics group the Ditchling Players. The musical templates are inspired, Lewis Carroll's surreal poetry is as attractive as ever, and the project is colored by other English psychedelic acts of the era such as the Pink Floyd: indeed, it has been compared elsewhere to a pastoral equivalent of Piper At The Gates of Dawn.There are numerous highlights scattered throughout the album, but pride of place must go to 'Jabberwocky,' an impressive mélange of treated vocals and backward tapes that is worth the price of admission alone. With its drowsy atmosphere, myriad sound effects and languid organ-based sound, Alice certainly invokes the spirit of the psychedelic age, albeit from the perspective of photogenic Middle England rather than hallucinogenic Middle Earth. Rarely can an album or book have ended with a more apposite line: 'Life, what is it but a dream?' We are pleased as punch to be able to present the compact disc debut of Alice and with extra material, too!" Includes a 16-page booklet and 13 bonus tracks.

Artist:	HOWELL & JOHN FERDINANDO, PETER
Title:	Tomorrow Come Someday
Label:	ACME GRAMOPHONE/LION PRODUCTIONS (UK)
Format:	CD+DVD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	ACLN 1016CD

"The second release (1969) from the home studio of future BBC Radiophonic Workshop composer Peter Howell and his musical partner John Ferdinando, makers of legendary albums under the names Alice Through the Looking Glass, Ithaca, Agincourt, and Friends. This private press album was recorded as the soundtrack for an underground film production by (later to be) renowned television director Ian Hamilton: Tomorrow Come Someday. The soundtrack album, now presented from the master tapes, was originally pressed up in a tiny quantity for friends and people involved in the production; certainly no more than 70-80 copies were made. So what do we find here? A concept piece revolving around a village threatened by motorway expansion, and the efforts of short-skirted guitar-slinging young painter Emma Stacey and a local boy to save the day, and perhaps preserve their growing love. The film is described on the album jacket as a musical comedy, shot on location in the Sussex village of Lurgashall, during August 1969, which of course, doesn't begin to tell the tale. Think perhaps of the Kinks Village Green Preservation Society characters come to life. See for yourself! For this is both the compact disc and DVD debut of Tomorrow Come Someday, film and soundtrack, together at last in a double-disc set. Chunky booklet with plentiful photos gives the full story of what we like to call The Wonderful Musical World of Peter Howell & John Ferdinando." DVD: NTSC format; 50 min. running time; color.

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