Artist: Alan Parsons Project | Label: Cooking Vinyl | Format: LP | Genre: Rock | Vinyl Condition: Mint | Cover Condition: Sealed
Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Edgar Allan Poe
Cooking Vinyl 840- re-issue 180g 1/2 speed master LP
180g black vinyl half-speed remaster by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios, includes a sleevenote featuring quotes from Alan Parsons & Eric Woolfson. The Alan Parsons Project debut studio album was originally released in June 1976. The lyrical and musical themes of the album are retellings of horror stories and poetry by Edgar Allan Poe.
Musicians featured on the album include vocalists Arthur Brown of The Crazy World of Arthur Brown on "The Tell Tale Heart", John Miles on "The Cask of Amontillado" and "(The System of) Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether", and Terry Sylvester of The Hollies on "To One in Paradise". The complete line-up of bands Ambrosia and Pilot play on the record, along with keyboardist Francis Monkman of Curved Air and Sky.
The album was a worldwide hit selling almost a million copies and achieving platinum status in a number of countries including Germany and Canada.
- 180gm heavyweight black vinyl LP
- Half speed remastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios
- Pressed at Optimal, Europe's premium pressing plant
- Printed insert contains a sleevenote featuring quotes from Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson
About The Alan Parsons Project:
The Alan Parsons Project was a progressive rock music entity comprised of
engineer / producer Alan Parsons and songwriter, musician and manager Eric
Woolfson. They released 10 concept albums which focused on subject matter such as science fiction, supernatural, literary and sociological themes between 1976 – 1987 and have sold in excess of 55 million albums world-wide."
Songs are:
A Dream Within A Dream
The Raven
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Cask of Amontillado
(The System of) Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
The Fall of the House of Usher
To One in Paradise
NEW SEALED re-issue 180g 1/2 speed master LP