III - 1979 UK Pressed Danish Pick Up label 1st Pressing 5-track LP - White & Black labels

Scarce 1979 Danish Pick Up Records 5-track vinyl LP pressing from Swedish jazz rock/fusion combo - recorded with some of the finest Danish jazz musicians of the period.

This pressing has white labels and black printing - machine stamped matrix information:
Side 1: PULP79301 A//1VE STR 11 1 STRAWBERRY
Side 2: PULP79301 A//1VE STR 11 STRAWBERRY 1

Vinyl was as such pressed by the Philips/Phonodisc plant in Walthamstow - The A/B-1 stresses that Side 1 & 2 was manufactured from the 1st set of laquers, the
'VE STR' that the thepressing was manufactured from an outsourced lacquer cut from Strawberry Mastering in London, the set of '1''s ' that this copy was manufactured from the 1st father and mothers and the first set of stamper. Combined with the fact that the label design is altogether different and leaning towards normal white and black printed promotional label designs, it is very likely that copies like this were taken from the very first batch opressed and mailed out to radio stations and reviewers.

Vinyl is packed in the normal commercial issue attributes - an illustrated credits and tracklisting card inner sleeve - ultimately in a picture cover.

Condition:
Vinyl is bright and shiny - has almost no signs of play or handling... a touch of sleeve induced wear and otherwise mint.

Labels has in the area of a handful light and slightly diffuse spindletraces - suggesting that the album was played a few times with and handled carefully when so.

Vinyl is overall graded near mint.

Inner sleeve is mint, cover has a touch of top back edge-wear and creasing - otherwise extremely close to mint. Cover is conservatively graded close to near mint/excellent.

Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1. Florent Florant (Örjan Fahlström) 4:16
2. Apollinaris (Sten Forsman) 5:20
3. Lailet Hob (Egyption Trad.) 8:14

Side 2:
1. Stararnas Vår - Brainstorming (Stefan Nilsson) 7:34
2. Folklåt (Stefan Nilsson) 9:45

Recorded and mixed at Werner Studios

Credits:

Stefan Björklund - guitars, percussion
Stefan Nilsson - acoustic piano, rhodes, mini moog, synthesiser, farfisa organ
Sten Forsman - bass, flute, voice
Åke Sundqvist drums, calimba, glaschimes, timbales, percussion
Örjan Fahlström - vibraphone , glaschimes, solina string, percussion

Additional Musicians:
Anna Lotta Larsson - Voice (Folklåt)
Palle Mikkelborg - trumpet
Lars Togeby - trumpet, flugelhorn
Allan Butchinsky - flugelhorn
Erling Kroner - trombone
Ture Larsen - basstrombone, trombone
Aske bentzon - lyricon

Technical Credits:
Kornet - Production
Michael Bruun - Production, Engineer

Artwork:
Jesper Ismael - Cover Design