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green foam and double gatefold
sleeve Originally released in 1971 the first and self-titled album by Nine Days
Wonder was one of the very first recordings for the newly founded label
Bacillus of producer Peter Hauke. Nine Days Wonder with their international
line-up consisting of bandfounder and singer Walter Seyffer, Rolf Henning
(guitar, piano), Karl Mutschlechner (bass) from Austria, John Earle (vocals
saxophone, flute, guitar) from Ireland and drummer Martin Roscoe from England,
taking inspiration from Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, King Crimson
and Soft Machine. The album's four titles were recorded by top recording
engineer Dieter Dirks in his studio in Cologne. It turned out exceptional, both
regarding the music and artistic form: the music highly complex, with
surprising arrangements, ranging from rough guitar riffs to the feel-good sound
of acoustic guitar, unisonal baubles of guitar and saxophone, weird and
harmonic songs, sudden changes of tempi - the album features such a multitude
of facets that multiple hearings are required to appreciate them all, and they
certainly make for entertaining listening. A musical fireworks display bubbling
over with ideas that need not shun international comparison. From the artistic
point of view the band had also come up with quite something. The first edition
was released in a cover made of green foam, quite extraordinary and rather
pricey, so the later editions featured the "fish cover" created by
Hipgnosis for the English release. This reissue is an exact production of the
original first edition af the album with a cover made of green foam and double
gatefold sleeve. Remastered from the original master tape the sound is
brilliant. Album comes with a 4-pages insert, which contains not only the first
part of the band history (the latter will follow with Nine Days Wonder albums
II - IV) but also rare and unseen photos and of course the
"fish-cover" of the second edition of the albums release. This is a
real gem for all the lovers of the genre. After 10 years of existing Long Hair
celebrates its anniversary with this special limited edition.
Label: Long Hair (Germany) 2010
LP is MINT