LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

• Fully laminated replica sleeve
• features inner with full lyrics
• insert with memories from the Band
• designed by the immortal Bobby Blisters
• Mastered by Reynolds Mastering, the kings of reconstruction and pressed on the old EMI Presses by Vinyl Factory for maximum quality
• limited to 227 copies
• Fully authorised exclusive release.

Second of the four Alice Island Band projects, from early 1968, originally only 20 copies made. A beautiful, whimsical, delicate, charming, sometimes childlike, self-composed collection of songs; echoes of Donovan’s Songs for Little Ones, a whiff of mid period Kinks, vapour trails from the Incredible String Band and faint resonances of the more naïve end of early Syd Barrett’s Pink Floyd. A genuine, utterly lost, hippy period piece stripped down and authentic, deceptively innocent with a constant Acidic undercurrent of the pervasive sadness marking the end of the “Summer of Love”. The Alice Island Band body of work is directly comparable in date, ethos, rarity, quality and overall vibe to Howell/Ferdinando: Agincourt/Ithaca, love those you’ll love these.

Track listing:

• A1 The Giant Tortoise
• A2 I Wish I Were a Phoenix
• A3 3 O’Clock in the Morning
• A4 The Gardeners Dream
• A5 (Stronger Than A) Medicene Man
• A6 The Show Must Go On
• B1 Thank You Letter
• B2 Mephistopheles
• B3 The London Zoo
• B4 Questions of the Bear
• B5 Dungarees