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Vinyl L.P - Bacillus Records - 2C 064-92740.
1971 - France.
Front cover illustration (A. Powell): HIPGNOSIS.
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Back cover
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Label side 1
Nine Days' Wonder
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John Earle - Vocals, saxophone, flute, guitar.
Rolf Henning - Guitar, piano.
Walter Seyffer - Vocals, percussion.
Karl Mutschlechner - Bass.
Martin Roscoe - Drums.
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ReplyDeleteWalter Seyffer founded the group Nine Days' Wonder as early as 1966.
They recorded their first album NINE DAYS WONDER in the Dierks Studio, January 1971 with the Hauke & Dierks team.
This was a fine example of more bizarre German progressive rock, clearly inspired by King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Soft Machine, Traffic, Family and Deep Purple. They presented long, complex suites of heavy progressive riffing, jazz fusion, large amounts of free improvisation, neck-breaking shifts of tempo and general insanity on tracks like, "Morning Spirit" and "Stomach's Choise" A fine achievement, if a little difficult to get into.
The original German issue of the album came in a green foam-rubber cover designed by Walter Seyffer. lt surely qualifies for the top ten list of the craziest sleeve designs ever made!
John Earle's talented sax and flute work was particularly notable.
When the original Nine Days' Wonder disbanded in 1972, he went to England and joined Gnidrolog (you can hear him on the classic album Lody Lake). Martin Roscoe drummed for a while in 2066 & Then. Seyffer joined Michael Bundt's band Medusa.
ReplyDeleteNine Days’ Wonder interview
by Klemen Breznikar
What’s the story behind the cover artwork?
Walter Seyffer: Peter Hauke was one of the most innovative record producers at that time. He was open for every new idea. Later on I was allowed to design many strange covers for him, for example the Haze cover of ‘Hazecolor-Dia’. (A real dia-slide)
The original cover of our first LP is the famous green Nine Days’ Wonder foam cover, a very popular item among collectors today. In England the album was released by Harvest with a cover designed by Hipgnosis. (This “fish cover” was taken over by Bellaphon after Bacillus Records was bought by the company Bellaphon, because allegedly the costs to produce the foam cover were too high).
For the now re-released CD it was decided to use a mixture of foam rubber cover and the photo from the inside of the record. The original English cover of Hipgnosis can be viewed on the homepage of Nine Days’ Wonder.
Many years later (ca. 2015) a crazy collector reissued this cover with the exact same green foam (one LP cost ca. 50 Euro). The 500 were sold in days quickly without any advertisement.