“SILVER APPLES” s/t psych LP KAPP orig ‘68 MONO w/ POSTER silver cover NM promo

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Artist: SILVER APPLES

Title:   “Silver Apples”

Label:   KAPP ~ # KL-1562.  Mono pressing on medium weight vinyl.  White label with black text.  

Date:  1968

Biography:   “Decades after their influential career first ground to a sudden and mysterious halt, the Silver Apples remain one of pop music's true enigmas.  A surreal, almost unprecedented duo, their music explored interstellar drones and hums, pulsing rhythms, and electronically generated melodies years before similar ideas were adopted in the work of acolytes ranging from Suicide to Spacemen 3 to Laika and Beak>.

Prior to forming the Silver Apples, vocalist Simeon Coxe and percussionist Danny Taylor played in a more traditional-sounding '60s rock group, the Overland Stage Electric Band.  However, Coxe's addition of a 1940s audio oscillator to the band alienated the other members so much that ultimately he and Taylor were the only ones left, and they began making music as the Silver Apples in New York City in 1967.  Coxe added more and more oscillators, incorporating them into an instrument also called the Simeon that (according to notes on the duo's self-titled 1968 debut LP) consisted of "nine audio oscillators and eighty-six manual controls...The lead and rhythm oscillators are played with the hands, elbows and knees and the bass oscillators are played with the feet."  Coxe and Taylor also connected with budding poet Stanley Warren, who wrote lyrics for many of their early songs, including their signature track, "Oscillations."

The duo released The Silver Apples via Kapp Records, and although the utterly uncommercial record -- an ingenious cacophony of beeps, buzzes, and beats -- sold poorly, the Silver Apples resurfaced in 1969 with their sophomore effort, Contact, and toured the United States.”

(courtesy Jason Ankeny, allmusic.com.)

Condition: 

DISC:  NEAR MINT with 100% of original gloss, as clean as can be found.  Appears to have been played one or two times at most, and handled with care.  Labels are clean.  Fidelity is superb. 

JACKET:   Jacket is nice VG with obvious signs of wear and handling, but still quite serviceable.  Front panel has red hype sticker, ring wear and staining at bottom left.  Wear at all corners, and on seams.  Approx 2” split at upper right corner.  Not the best jacket, but certainly suitable to accompany the beautiful disc. 

Full color poster is included, with no flaws noted.

Track Listing: 

Side One:

• Oscillations
• Seagreen Serenades
• Lovefingers
• Program
• Velvet Cave

Side Two:

• Whirly-Bird
• Dust
• Dancing Gods
• Misty Mountain 

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