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Balaklava by Pearls Before Swine (CD, Jun-1999, ESP-Disk) 
Balaklava by Pearls Before Swine (CD, Jun-1999, ESP-Disk)

 
Balaklava by Pearls Before Swine (CD, Jun-1999, ESP-Disk)

Release Date: Jun 1999
Format: CD
Record Label: ESP-Disk
Genre: Folk Rock, Rock & Pop
UPC: 8013252101021
Product ID: EPID3126777
Description: Pearls Before Swine: Tom Rapp (vocals, guitar); Lane Lederer (guitar, bass guitar); Wayne Harley (banjo, background vocals); Jim Bohannon (piano, Clavinet, organ, marimba). Additional personnel: Al Shackman (guitar); Joe Farrell (flute, ...
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Track Listing
1. Trumpeter Landfrey...
2. Translucent Carriages
3. Images of April
4. There Was a Man
5. I Saw the World
6. Guardian Angels
7. Suzanne
8. Lepers & Roses
9. Florence Nightingale...
10. Ring Thing

Details
Producer:Richard L. Alderson
Distributor:City Hall
Recording Type:Studio
Recording Mode:Stereo
SPAR Code:n/a

Album Notes
Pearls Before Swine: Tom Rapp (vocals, guitar); Lane Lederer (guitar, bass guitar); Wayne Harley (banjo, background vocals); Jim Bohannon (piano, Clavinet, organ, marimba).
Additional personnel: Al Shackman (guitar); Joe Farrell (flute, English horn); Lee Crabtree (flute, piano, organ); Bill Salter (double bass).
Recording information: Impact Sound Studios, New York, New York.
The East Village folk-rock group Pearls Before Swine was basically songwriter Tom Rapp and a shifting cast of friends. Their first album, ONE NATION UNDERGROUND (with its famous Hieronymus Bosch cover), is an erratic affair, but 1968's poetic antiwar BALAKLAVA is quite possibly one of the greatest New York folk-rock albums ever recorded. It perfectly captures the surreal acid-drenched atmosphere of the city's then-hippie milieu: speed freak paranoia leavened with a kinder, gentler Jesus freak spirituality. Their version of Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne" is perhaps the most visionary realization of that classic song ever recorded, and that includes Cohen's own performance, not to mention Judy Collins's. Jazz musician Joe Farrell provides lyrical flute and oboe accompaniment throughout.

Editorial Reviews
Veering from the reverbed 12-string strum and whispered contrapuntal vocal of 'Translucent Carriages' to the pastoral, flute-driven 'Images Of April,' BALAKLAVA never reverts to protest music's angry clichés.
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