LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

LP + 1 bonus track, coloured vinyl

One of the great lost albums of British psychedelia, original copies of Arzachel's 1969 self-titled debut fetch huge sums on the collectors' market and it is not difficult to understand why.

Originally released in 1969 on the small Evolution label, this album quite simply contains some of the best psych to ever come out of the UK. However, like so many other great albums of the era, it soon dropped entirely from the radar due to bad promotion. In fact, it may not have ever been rediscovered at all if guitarist Steve Hillage and keyboardist Dave Stewart had not gone on to be so well known. Hillage would soon become famous for his work in Gong, and Stewart would become a legend of British prog with Egg, Hatfield and the North, National Health, and his work with wife Barbara Gaskin in the 1980s.

Contains bonus track from a lacquer of the same period.

Track Listing:

Side A:

1. Garden Of Earthly Delights
2. Soul Thing (Queen St. Gang)
3. Leg
4. Clean Innocent Fun

Side B:

1. Azathoth
2. Metempsychosis
3. Saturn/The Bringer of Gold Age (bonus)