Reissue: 09-06-2013 ( 1971)<\/p>\n
The definitive reissue of one of rock\u2019s rarest and most sought-after albums \u2013 \u201cacid-folk\u201d \u2013 equal parts pastoral folk and contemplative psychedelic. The rst time since 1971 that this album has been pressed from the original master tapes, recently discovered in Italy. Lacquered directly from tape in an all-analog transfer by Bernie Grundman. This is the single LP version that we issued after the Now-Again Reserve Edition sold out. Mark Fry was 19 \u2013 recently graduated from high school and in Italy studying painting \u2013 when he walked barefooted into RCA\u2019s Italian subsidiary, played some songs he\u2019d written on his guitar and was signed to record the album that would become legend. The first recordings he made proved stuff, so he was paired with members of the Scottish band Middle of the Road, who were in Rome while under contract to RCA Italiana. Convening in a basement home studio with two 4-track reel-to-reel record- ers, Mark\u2019s visions coalesced in a dreamy, airy manner \u2013 \u201cNick Drake meets Dr. Strangely Strange with a touch of Lewis Carroll\u201d The Word Magazine would later write. Pressed in small amounts for Vincenzo Micocci\u2019s RCA sub-label It, Alice remained an out of reach masterpiece for many but its creator, who returned to England in 1971 and subsequently traveled the world, playing music, sometimes recording and painting. By the time of its rediscovery, its master tapes were assumed lost. Their rediscovery allows this pristine transfer to reveal nuances not heard on anything but original It pressings.<\/p>\n
Tracklist:<\/p>\n
A1. Dreaming With Alice (Verse 1)
\nA2. The Witch
\nA3. Dreaming With Alice (Verse 2)
\nA4. Song For Wilde
\nA5. Dreaming With Alice (Verse 3)
\nA6. Roses For Columbus
\nA7. A Norman Soldier
\nA8. Dreaming With Alice (Verse 4)
\nB1. Dreaming With Alice (Verse 5)
\nB2. Lute And Flute
\nB3. Dreaming With Alice (Verse 6)
\nB4. Down Narrow Streets
\nB5. Dreaming With Alice (Verse 7)
\nB6. Mandolin Man
\nB7. Dreaming With Alice (Verse 8)
\nB8. Rehtorb Ym No Hcram<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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