NATIONAL HEALTH National Health LP VISA 1978 US orig IMP 7002 HENRY COW
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THIS IS THE 1978 US ORIGINAL PRESSING on VISA Records. The single cover is in VG(+) condition, normal wear, BUT creases on corners/edges, tsurface ringwear, discolouration/wear on spines/corners, left spine readable; for details see photos (with and without flashlight). The vinyl is in EX condition and plays wonderfully.
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NATIONAL HEALTH
DAVE STEWART, PHIL MILLER, NEIL MURRAY, PIP PYLE
plus JIMMY HASTINGS, ALAN GOWEN, AMANDA PARSONS, JOHYN MITCHELL
National Health were one of those rare English progressive bands whose classic mid-'70s output still sounds fresh today. Their sound prospered on imaginative linear musicality, often in a jazzy format that emphasized extended instrumental solos. Arising during a challenging time when progressive rock was being overtaken by a tidal wave of punk, National Health featured members of other Canterbury and post-Canterbury bands Hatfield and the North (a band considered a Canterbury supergroup in itself), Gilgamesh, and Henry Cow.
"NATIONAL HEALTH"
Produced by NATIONAL HEALTH
Recorded at The Point, Victoria, London 1977 on the Mobile Mobile
Intro to 'Elephants' recorded live at the M.L.T.S., Tiel, Holland 14/2/77
1978 LP VISA RECORDS IMP 7002
PRINTED IN USA ORIGINAL PRESSING
SINGLE SLEEVE
HEAVY CARDBOARD COVER
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: none
LABEL: VISA - GRAY LABEL w/LOGO on TOP - BLACK/DARK GRAY TEXT
Catalog on cover: IMP 7002
Catalog on labels: IMP 7002
Matrix/Runout (Side A, Etched): IMP-7002-A (Stamped): STERLING
Matrix/Runout (Side B, Etched): IMP-7002-B
On back cover: Tracklist + Credits
Manufactured by Visa Records............Printed in U.S.A.
tracklisting
Side A: TENEMOS ROADS - BRUJO
Side B: BOROGOVES - ELEPHANTS
grading
RECORD EX (please, read above description)
SLEEVE VG+ (please, see pictures and read above description)
National Health's four lengthy multifaceted suites present the Hatfield-esque instrumental Canterbury sound at its most accomplished. Gowen, with writing credits for "Brujo" and "Elephants," came to be known for a jazzy, improvisational sensibility in contrast to the more thoroughly scored compositional approach of Stewart, who penned "Tenemos Roads" and "Borogoves," but National Health presents a perfect meld of their styles, utterly without tension between them. There are vamps over which Stewart, Gowen, or Miller solo (great fuzz organ from Stewart; fluid Moog from Gowen; inimitable phrasing and tone from Miller), but most notable is the music's organic flow through its twists and turns of melody, harmonics, rhythm (Pyle again proving both his dynamism and sensitivity), texture, and timbre. Music this complex and densely varied, particularly in the rock realm, seldom feels as light and breezy...(AllMusic)
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