LOCOMOTIVE (see also: Norman Haines Band)

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  LOCOMOTIVE (see also: Norman Haines Band) - LOCOMOTIVE - We Are Everything You See +3 - EU Ethelion Expanded Limited Press - LISTEN - VERY RARE

  price: 110,00 PLN / 27,50 EUR

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  A very attractive reissue, looking no worse than the British original on Parlophone, of the only album by the cult British band Locomotive. A fantastic, psychedelic and hugely underrated LP (with clearly audible elements of blues and jazz) recorded at the end of 1968, and released only in January 1970, by the Parlophone known to all. A combination of the style of early Procol Harum with the less well-known band Velvett Fogg, that is, short but concise compositions; lots of gloomy, organ sounds; memorable melodies, frequent changes of mood, as well as nice brass arrangements (including Dick Heckstall-Smith and Chris Mercer) and the superb, sinister vocals of the leader and organist Norman Haines. The content of the original album has been extended by two tracks from singles (1969) and "Moneymaker" (1970), never released on vinyl. In 1970 the discouraged band broke up, and Haines founded his own band, a more progressive, harder continuation, as it were, of Locomotive's achievements. The Locomotive album is one of my favourite 'Brits' of that era! An absolute MUST! Condition: NEW, unsealed.

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  LOCOMOTIVE (see also: Norman Haines Band) - LOCOMOTIVE - We Are Everything You See +12 - EU Eclipse Remastered Expanded - LISTEN - VERY RARE

  price: 60,00 PLN / 15,00 EUR

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  A new, extended and remastered edition from the reliable Eclipse label of the only album by the cult British band. A fantastic, still slightly psychedelic, but already early-progressive and hugely underrated at the time LP (with clearly audible elements of classical music and jazz), recorded at the end of 1968, and released only in January 1970 by the Parlophone known to all, but which was then waiting for who knows what. Locomotive is, in short, a combination of the style of early Procol Harum with the less well-known, but also Birmingham-born, band Velvett Fogg, and also the band Second Hand from the period of their excellent album "Reality" - but with an occasional brass section. The album was characterised by quite short but concise, often interlinked and memorable compositions with dominant dark organ sounds and the unsettling, excellent vocals of Norman Haines, frequent changes of mood and also excellent brass arrangements performed by the cream of British jazz (Dick Heckstall-Smith, Henry Lowther, Chris Mercer). This is an absolutely obligatory item for every fan of old British rock playing from the end of the 60s in the 'late psych/early prog' style! As early as 1969 the leader Norman Haines received an offer to join the band of his mates from Earth (soon afterwards renamed Black Sabbath), but he refused, counting on a breakthrough with the Locomotive album. After the commercial flop and the break-up of the band in 1970, the keyboard player founded his own Norman Haines Band, directly a more progressive and somewhat harder continuation of Locomotive's achievements. On this CD, to the content of the full-length record as many as twelve valuable bonus tracks have been added, including seven recordings from Parlophone singles, four previously unreleased on CD tracks from the BBC - including brilliant covers of the group Spirit and Bob Dylan - both available on YouTube) and "Money Maker", never released on any format. An absolute MUST!