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REP 1095CD
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New remastered reissue of this UK underground album from 1971. "Strictly limited edition including 4 rare bonus trax, remastered, booklet with liner notes. Original vinyl artwork, digi-sleeve. Mid-line jewel case reissue. Reissue of this classic UK underground progressive psych album originally released in 1971 on Mam in an edition of 500 copies. Previously reissued on Repertoire in the early '90s, this release adds four bonus unreleased tracks. Feature Mick Harnsworth of Five Day Week Straw people and Andromeda fame on bass, while keyboardist Roy Sharland had cut rug with Arthur Brown and Spice. We are talking heavy keyboard driven instrumental passages, another heavy progressive masterpiece of elating proportions."
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REP 1069CD
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First CD reissue of the 3rd Clark Hutchinson album, originally released by Deram Records in 1971. "Andy Clark and Mick Hutchinson recorded four semi-legendary LPs of drug/scatter/raga-blues between 1969 and 1971. Mick Hutchinson was -- and still is -- a gifted guitarist who had began his career playing Indian style music with the tabla expert Sam Gopal. Although he never recorded with Sam Gopal's Dream -- a young guitarist named Lemmy eventually fulfilled this role -- Hutchinson and Gopal played together at the legendary 14 hour Technicolour Dream at London's Alexandra Palace in April of 1967. Later, he teamed up with the multi-instrumentalist Andy Clark. They both played a variety of instruments and this abundance of talent was brought to bear on the extraordinary two man album A=MH² which they recorded during two hectic 12 hour sessions in 1969. The band's last offering before splitting in 1971, Gestalt, was an altogether gentler, more reflective, disillusioned affair. Gestalt is eleven tracks shot through with sadness and regret. To some extent it's like listening to an extended meditation on Peter Green's 'Man of the World'. The lyrics are less explicit and less maudlin than on that particular track, but Andy Clark's vocals have the same poignancy, and Mick Hutchinson's guitar deftly and efficiently touches all the right spots. In case you're wondering, a gestalt is a pattern or structure -- an organised whole -- that is more than the sum of its parts. The idea originates with the German system of Gestalt psychology, which holds that perceptions and reactions are gestalts. A clear example is a melody as distinct from the separate notes that go to make it up. However you apply the term to this album, there is something here that transcends the eleven short tracks that go to make it up. It's elusive, like something half-remembered from a dream. Whatever it is, it's enough to break your heart." -- Simon Smith.
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REP 1063CD
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"Quintessence was one of the most adventurous and exciting bands of the hippie era. As contemporaries of The Doors and Pink Floyd, they gained a fanatical following for their blend of rock, jazz and Eastern spiritual music. Hailed by critics as forerunners of such bands as Ozric Tenacles, Quintessence was the ultimate New Age experience. They were fronted by charismatic singer Shiva Shakti (now known by his real name Phil Jones). Dive Deep (1971) was their third album and is full of ecstatic performances, whose hypnotic sounds entranced a generation. In the informative CD liner notes, Phil explains how the group was formed in London in 1969 by flute player Raja Ram and tells the full story of their musical adventures and ultimate demise."
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REP 1062CD
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"The sixties' favorite pop group -- featuring charismatic vocalist Reg Presley -- are in action on a unique collection of rockers and ballads. This best-selling 12 track album was first released in 1968 and our CD includes nine bonus cuts from the seventies, plus a pair of Reg Presely solo items -- all fully restored and remastered for discerning fans' listening pleasure."
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REP 1009CD
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Originally issued on Island, 1969. "As pop music made its way into rock in the late sixties, several of its protagonists decided to leave behind the well-trodden paths of the past. Native Australian Ron Rothfield (flute) formed Quintessence, a six-piece outfit based in London's Notting Hill, that blended jazz, folk and meditative sounds. The group's highly sought after debut album, originally released on the legendary Island Records label, produced a cornucopia of Far-Eastern elements, taxing rock improvisations and religious themes -- all brilliantly executed by six adventurous soloists. For its Repertoire CD debut, In Blissful Company has the addition of two rare extra A & B-side tracks taken from a rarely found single."
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REP 1016CD
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2nd album, originally issued by Island, 1970. "The unique sound of these pioneers of new age rock and can be fully enjoyed and appreciated on this remarkable CD. Quintessence was the band's second album and was first released in 1970. Featuring a sparkling blend of spiritual lyrics and jazz and rock instrumentals, it still sounds remarkably fresh today. Flute player Raja Ram and vocalist Shiva Shankar, who tear into such classic Quintessence performances as 'Sea Of Immortality', and a 'live' recording of 'Burning Bush', front the group that veers stylistically between Cream and Jethro Tull. Repertoire is proud to reproduce on this important CD the classic cover Quintessence with an LP style gatefold sleeve and striking cover picture of Shiva."
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REP 4404CD
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Classic first album freak out from the UK, originally released in 1967. Not far from the disassociational ecstasy being created in NYC by the Godz, this is perfectly tranced lysergic blather, and an underrated document of it's time. "A band like this, incorporating flower power, love and peace, acid and psychedelic rock lifestyle, tainted with freak out, drop out, hippy and underground trends, could not have existed in any other era than the late sixties ('67/68). Before that time, this phenomenon was labelled amateurism or hype and dismissed as musical nonsense. The first extremely freaky LP the group launched was an LSD trip opera." [deleted release, last copies]
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