Balaklava - Original 1968 US ESP label 10-track LP - Incl. Lyric Insert

rare original 1968 US ESP label 10-track vinyl LP - the anti-war themed 2nd album by New York based folk tinged psychedelic rock band.

Stiff and rigid vinyl has custom picture labels, compleye with fold-out lyric insert - housed in a back pasted picture cover

Condition: M- (Vinyl and Labels)/VG++ (Labels)/M- (Insert)/VG+ (Cover):

Vinyl is shiny perfect - mint. Labels has a little rise from sticker removal - hence the near perfect vinyl grading. Insert is perfect.
Cover has some minor flaws - some light shelfwear, a little sun discolouration along spine and upper seam, a tiny upper left front tear, very light corners wear - and a not so minor one: a lower left front corner area with cover shelling - all resulting in a VG+ grading - a very nice copy though.

Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1 Trumpeter Landfrey... 0:33
2 Translucent Carriages 4:00
3 Images Of April 2:38
4 There Was A Man 2:52
5 I Saw The World 3:24
6 Guardian Angels 3:00


Side 2:
1 Suzanne 4:54
2 Lepers And Roses 5:19
3 Florence Nightingale 0:15
4 Ring Thing 2:20

Credits:

Pearls Before Swine:
Tom Rapp - guitar, vocals
Wayne Harley - banjo, chorus, harp
Lane Laderer - bass, guitar, swinehorn
Jim Bohannon - organ, piano, marimba, clavinette

Additional Musicians:
Joe Farrell - English Horn, Flute, Wind
Bill Salter - Bass
Al Shackman - Guitar
Lee Crabtree - Piano, Organ, Flute
Selwart Clarke - Strings, arrangements
Warren Smith - Strings, arrangements

Technical Credits:
Richard L. Alderson - Production, Engineer

Artwork:
Pieter Brueghel the Elder - Detail of 'The Triumph of Death' - Front cover artwork
Mel Zimmer . Back cover photography
Jean Cocteau - Back cover drawings