LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

• 1970 prog-psych classic
• Fullest ever reissue
• 16 bonus tracks
• 16 page booklet with background notes and images

Raw Material made little impact on the crowded London scene in the late 60s and early 70s, but their blend of prog, psych and jazz has gone on to become a firm favourite with cognoscenti all over the world. Their classic debut album was originally issued in October 1970, and receives its definitive reissue with this deluxe double LP. As well as the full album, it features both sides of all three singles they’d made to date, as well as the whole of the ‘Sounds Progressive’ LP they'd released under a pseudonym. The set comes in a gatefold sleeve and includes a packed large-format booklet offering detailed background notes (drawing on original interviews) and copious photos and promo materials, as well as a reproduction of the promo poster sent to a few UK record shops at the time.

Track Listing:

Disc One

• Time and Illusion
• I’d Be Delighted
• Fighting Cock
• Pear On An Apple Tree
• Future Recollections
• Traveller Man
• Destruction of America

Disc Two

• Time & Illusion (45)
• Bobo’s Party (45)
• Hi There Hallelujah (45)
• Days of the Fighting Cock (45)
• Traveller Man – Part 1 (45)
• Traveller Man – Part 2 (45)
• Who Do You Love?
• Living In The Past
• Man Of The World
• I’m A Man
• Spirit in the Sky
• Let’s Work Together
• Second Generation Woman
• Sympathy
• Badge
• Race with the Devil