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Asylum

CRESSIDA Asylum (1994 Japanese 8-track remastered CD, originally released in 1971 on a the 'swirl' Vertigo label, this cult Art Rock classic offers a blend of McCartney-esque vocals & Symphonic Progressive Rock filled with adventurous instrumental sections; booklet picture sleeve with all text in Japanese, with the 'Vertigo Classics Super Price' obi-strip PHCR-4209)

Price Info
$39.00, £30.00  
Product Availability Last copy in stock. Order now for shipping on Tuesday 5th November
Release Year 1994 - 30 years ago
Condition Unless stated otherwise in the description above, all items are in at least excellent condition - so please read our descriptions carefully. We try to sell items as close to Mint condition as possible, and many will indeed be close to brand new and/or unplayed. Others may be 'used' - and all will meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.
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Format CD album (CDLP)
Record Label Vertigo
Complete Stock List Go to Cressida
Product Catalogue No PHCR-4209
Music Genre 60s Rock, 70s Rock, Progressive, 70s Artists
Country Comes from Japan Comes from 'Japan'
 
Tracklisting & More Information

Cressida's Asylum is a fantastic example of early British symphonic Progressive Rock. It marries catchy Paul McCartney-esque vocals with adventurous instrumental sections. Superb vocal melodies regarded as some of the best from the Prog era coupled with charmingly naive lyrics

The instrumental sections have its origins in the style typical of early seventies Prog Rock with the music driven by a dirty & mellow Hammond organ with classic piano, bass, guitar & drums. At times this sound was augmented with a small orchestra with violins, cellos, trumpets & timpani.
The first side of the album has a theme based on its title with the second side featuring a couple of short filler tracks ending with a triumphant epic.
Widely regarded as the best album to come out of that school of early British symphonic Prog. This is beautiful, melancholic and mostly mellow & atmospheric. There is quite simply a British charm that blends its morose charm with lovely orchestral Mellotron sounds that appear throughout the album.
If three words could describe this album then they would graceful, sublime & classic.

1. Asylum
2. Munich
3. Goodbye Post Office Tower Goodbye
4. Survivor
5. Reprieved
6. Lisa
7. Summer Weekend Of A Lifetime
8. Let Them Come When They Will


CD ALBUM  
Recording Artist Cressida
Product Title Asylum
Product Information Cressida Asylum Japan CD album (CDLP).
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
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