Cressida - Cressida (1970) UK 180g Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz
Cressida - Cressida
Vinyl | LP Cover (1:1) | FLAC + cue | 24bit/96kHz | 900mb
Half Speed Mastering At Abbey Road Studios By Jon Astley
Label: Repertoire Records/REP 2225 | Released: 1970 | This Issue: 2014 | Genre: Progressive-Rock
A1 To Play Your Little Game
A2 Winter Is Coming Again
A3 Time For Bed
A4 Cressida
A5 Home And Where I Long To Be
A6 Depression
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B1 One Of A Group
B2 Lights In My Mind
B3 The Only Earthman In Town
B4 Spring ’69
B5 Down Down
B6 Tomorrow Is A Whole New Day
Bass – Kevin McCarthy (3)
Design [Cover] – Teenburger
Drums – Iain Clark
Engineer – Robin Thompson
Guitar – John Heyworth
Harpsichord, Piano, Organ, Mellotron – Peter Jennings
Producer – Ossie Byrne
Vocals – Angus Cullen (tracks: A1 to A4, A6 to B6), John Heyworth (tracks: A5)
Notes
First released on the Vertigo label (UK) VO7 (847 904 VTY), ℗ 1970
180g Vinyl LP Custom Package
Half speed mastering at Abbey Road Studios from HD 24 bit audio. Remastered by Jon Astley
Gatefold cover with custom replica retro finish: 2-piece gatefold (one side ‘pocket’), 4 special colours, all round custom ‘vintage’ finish with laminated outer
Made under license from Cressida Music
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: 4 009910 222515
Vinyl | LP Cover (1:1) | FLAC + cue | 24bit/96kHz | 900mb
Half Speed Mastering At Abbey Road Studios By Jon Astley
Label: Repertoire Records/REP 2225 | Released: 1970 | This Issue: 2014 | Genre: Progressive-Rock
A1 To Play Your Little Game
A2 Winter Is Coming Again
A3 Time For Bed
A4 Cressida
A5 Home And Where I Long To Be
A6 Depression
-
B1 One Of A Group
B2 Lights In My Mind
B3 The Only Earthman In Town
B4 Spring ’69
B5 Down Down
B6 Tomorrow Is A Whole New Day
Bass – Kevin McCarthy (3)
Design [Cover] – Teenburger
Drums – Iain Clark
Engineer – Robin Thompson
Guitar – John Heyworth
Harpsichord, Piano, Organ, Mellotron – Peter Jennings
Producer – Ossie Byrne
Vocals – Angus Cullen (tracks: A1 to A4, A6 to B6), John Heyworth (tracks: A5)
Notes
First released on the Vertigo label (UK) VO7 (847 904 VTY), ℗ 1970
180g Vinyl LP Custom Package
Half speed mastering at Abbey Road Studios from HD 24 bit audio. Remastered by Jon Astley
Gatefold cover with custom replica retro finish: 2-piece gatefold (one side ‘pocket’), 4 special colours, all round custom ‘vintage’ finish with laminated outer
Made under license from Cressida Music
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: 4 009910 222515
Cressida - Cressida (1970) UK 180g Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz
Cressida - Cressida (1970) UK 180g Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz
Cressida - Cressida (1970) UK 180g Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz
This Rip: 2017
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Cressida’s short career will be unfortunately unnoticed, despite having a lot of trumps in their hands. Just two albums, but both fetching small fortunes (partly due to the fact that they were released on Vertigo’s Swirl label), but the music quality is simply excellent on both records although there are very notable differences between them. This first album came with a disturbing artwork that started out from a good idea, but somehow ultimately failed as the collage is rather amateurish, which is rather surprising given the Vertigo label. Actually sonically, Cressida defies easy description using other names, but if one has to try I would say a cross between Caravan, a jazzy Savoy Brown (with Chris Youlden around the Raw Sienna album) and Spring.
This first album is rather song-based (max-track length: just over 5 minutes and an average under the 4-min mark), but let this not deter you: their luscious organ-dominated sound is so gorgeous and the inventive arrangements on their pot-pourri influences are more than enough for the proghead’s enthusiasm. Winter, the eponymous title track, Depression (which is anything but, really), Lights In My Mind (sounding like Hendrix’s version of Watchtower), Spring 69 and Earthman, are the many highlights but overall, all of the 12 tracks are relatively even in quality. The singer has an excellent and unique voice timbre and all of those musicians are good. There is a rather peculiar happy melancholy throughout the album, and it is certainly a major part of its appeal.
A rather promising debut, and original enough to warrant the fourth star, Cressida’s two albums are essential to early 70’s-loving progheads.Review by Sean Trane, progarchives.com
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