No Balance Palace - Original 2005 Danish Columbia label 11-track LP - Incl poster

Rare original 2005 Danish Columbia label 11-track LP - Copenhagen based indie rockers 5th album - Produced by Tony Visconti and guested by David Bowie on The Cynic as well as Lou Reed on Black Building - spawning the singles The Curse Of Being A Girl, The Cynic, She's Made Of Chalk & Kalifornia.

Vinyl has company red label - generic 60ies Columbia style - with white side boxed camera eye logos and top curved company name print.

Vinyl is pressed on 180 gram vinyl, accompanied by 3-panel poster with lyrics printed on reverse - housed in a black and white printed inner sleeve - ultimately in a silver foil printed band name and title picture cover.

For thoise into the handwritten matrix info:
Vinyl has handwritten matrix information:
Side 1: 82876-72767-2 B
Side 2: 82876-72767-2 B
- suggesting that this is the original vinyl pressing. The 2010 reissue is pressed by the Czech GZ Vinyl pressing plant and has their machine etched 5 digit code along with E1/A endings.


Condition: VG+(+) (Vinyl and Labels)/VG++ (Inner Sleeve)/VG++ (Poster)/VG++ (Cover):

Vinyl is beautifully bright - has a prolonged inaudible pressure mark/scuff in the last track of Side 2 - otherwise only a very light degree of hardly detectable sleeve inflicted wear. Perfect labels. Vinyl is overall graded close to near mint/excellent.

Poster is extremely close to mint - inner sleeve equally nice.
Cover is mint except for a touch of touch of edge wrinkling - next to nothing and easily graded near mint.

Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1 Kalifornia 5:27
2 Jewel Drop 4:20
3 The Cynic 4:22
4 Ophelia 3:56
5 Diana Ross (Kasper Eistrup - Henrik Lindstrand) 0:31
6 The Curse Of Being A Girl (Kasper Eistrup) 3:39

Side 2:
1 She's Made Of Chalk (Henrik Lindstrand) 5:05
2 Ether 5:21
3 Snowman (Kasper Eistrup - Henrik Lindstrand) 3:14
4 Black Building (Kasper Eistrup - Kashmir) 1:58
5 No Balance Palace (Kasper Eistrup - Kashmir) 8:02

Written and composed by Kasper Eistrup unless otherwise noted

Recorded in march and April 2005 at Sun Studios, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Mixed July 2005 at The Looking Glass Studios, 632 Broadway, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10012, USA.
Mastered at Sterling Sound, New York, NYC.
Designed at yellow1, Copenhagen

Credits:

Kashmir:
Kasper Eistrup
Mads Tunebjerg
Asger Engholm Techau
Henrik Lindstrand

Additional Musicians:
David Bowie - Vocals (The Cynic)
Lou Reed - Voice (Black Building)
Per Röeghmann - Gnober (Black Building), Mantell Sticks, Hilberseimer Bx10 (Snowman, No Balance Palace)

Technical Credits:
Kashmir - Production, Arrangements
Andreas Hviid - Assistant Engineer (Assistant Programming - Protools)
George Marino - Mastering
Mario J. McNulty - Enigineer (Programming - Protools)
Tony Visconti - Production, Engineer, Mix

Artwork:
Paul Wilson - Artwork
El Lissitzky - Cover Image
Søren Solkær Starbird - Photography