DELL DUDENHOEFFER MY LIFE. Melancholic Aust. acid folk

$

265

For auction, here is: Dell Dudenhoeffer - My Life. (Dell Dudenhoeffer sings the songs of Edgar F. Penzig).
Label is an un-named private pressing. Cat. # is EFP-001. Manufactured in Australia. This is an original Australian pressing from 1975, as featured in the Hans Pokora 5001 book in which he gives it 5 stars rarity but perhaps it should be 6 stars?

Most every one of the 10 tracks are filled with melancholy, lost love and resignation. Beautiful and descriptive imagery through masterful use of the English language by Penzig and sung perfectly by the haunting voice of Miss Dudenhoeffer. Quite a serious sounding lp IMO.

Condition: SLEEVE.....The edges are in Mint condition with NO DAMAGE.  The front is in M- condition. The rear is EX+ with only 1 x small crease to lower right side.

The opening edge is in Mint condition. All in all this is in ASTOUNDING condition for a 33 year old sleeve. I will grade this sleeve as EX+ without doubt.
It has a dedication by Edgar Penzig himself on rear in pen, then signed and dated (see photo).

LABELS.....There is NO unwanted writing, stickers, residue or tears. Spindle looks as sharp as the day it was pressed (see macro shot). This album has obviously always been handled with great care and not sure if its even been played at all.

VINYL..... Both sides of this fantastic album still have their JUST PRESSED deep black shine. FULL GLOSS.
When you hold this album in the very brightest of direct lights, there is just 1 x VERY FEINT hairline mark/surface scuff at the end of Side 1 which is quite impossible to see in room light and I'm being EXTREMELY pedantic by even mentioning it as normally no dealer would do so in their description, its so insignificant.......and so I'm going to confidently grade this disc as EX++.

I have played this album on my very sensitive and revealing "Rega Planar 2" and the sound is UN-WORN, it is full and crisp there is NO loss of sound quality at all, wonderful sound stage and stereo separation. There are either only a few or no dust crackles at all that can only be heard in the quiet parts of the music or between tracks. Plays as quiet as can be when I placed the stylus on a few places just now. These original pressings are second to none.   This really is a STUNNING copy that any collector would be delighted to add to their collection, a real KEEPER . Play grade disc as M-.

Packed well with double protection on each side and corner protection as well. Disc will be placed outside sleeve so no splits possible.

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Overseas postage for this item will be approx. US$13.80.

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