mourning phase (1971)
scd 012 5033281011699
Tracklist
The Celebration
1 Ring Out The Bells
2 August Song
3 Smile Song
The Illusion
4 Dross
The Vast Putrescense
5 Putresence
6 Damn Your Eyes
7 Contrived
An original sold for £9000 in 2020. This is the first legal CD issue of this astonishingly original Progressive Folk Concept LP of 1971. Although about the cataclysmic end of a tempestuous relationship, Mourning Phase is a raging outburst of Positive aggression and bitterness, its Poetry Jim, but not as we know it, rather, a Sonic Beating To Death, and a Mellifluous joyous anarchic Percy Bysshe Shelley esque pummeling of the body one has just gleefully slaughtered. Adrenalin fuelled Hate in a Neo Chamber Music Esque Spenser like setting. Simply, the Ultimate Hissy Fit that crests Hysteria and plateaus in a Literary Explosion of Bile and Glory. Mike Conn has lived in a cave ever since.
380 copy limited edition first pressings in mini card gatefold sleeves, from Glass Masters (not cdrs)
