Principal Edwards Magic Theatre
Release Date: 14 April 2017
Label: Cherry Red Records / Cherry Red
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 3
Barcode: 5013929170438
Genres: Rock Progressive Rock
Description
2 ALBUMS + DISC OF 13 UNRELEASED BBC SESSIONS, LIVE RECORDINGS AND DEMOS •INCLUDES 10 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED SONGS! •COMPILED WITH FOUNDER MEMBER ROOT CARTWRIGHT •INCLUDES LYRICS + SPECIALLY COMMISSIONED ESSAY / SPANNING THE BAND’S CAREER WITH JOHN PEEL’S LEGENDARY DANDELION RECORDS •CAPACITY WALLET CONTAINING REPLICA LP SLEEVE WALLETS + 20pp BOOKLET Few groups epitomised the spirit of the late 1960s and early 1970s like Principal Edwards Magic Theatre. A collective of musicians, dancers, poets and sound and lighting engineers, based around the music of Root Cartwright, the group produced one of rock’s first forays into multi-media presentation and found themselves championed by, and recording for, the great John Peel. This set brings together both albums recorded for Dandelion Records – Soundtrack and The Asmoto Running Band - plus five recently unearthed BBC session tracks, unreleased demos and a fantastic live recording made at London’s Hampstead Theatre in September 1971. Together, those unreleased recordings shed new light on this most intriguing of groups, and point towards the direction a third Principal Edwards Magic Theatre album might have taken. Recent years have seen a revival of interest in PEMT, including lengthy pieces in both Record Collector and Shindig! magazines.
Tracklisting
Kevin Ayers
Wrath
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Tigertailz
The Fall
The Blackbirds
Hawkwind
Kevin Ayers
Soft Machine
Nektar
Nektar
Hawkwind
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe
