East Of Eden – Snafu

East Of Eden – Snafu

Media Condition: Very Good (VG)

Sleeve Condition: Very Good (VG)

Visually graded disc, has light scratching along disc, weak VG. Sleeve has light corner wear, edge wear, and ring wear. Stored in heavy duty plastic outer sleeve and anti static inner sleeve. Disc has been thoroughly cleaned via Spin Clean record washer.

Notes:

Track B4 is titled like this on the release, but it is an original composition, not a ”traditional”.

On the label the title of B2 appears as ”Nymphenburger”. On back cover and liner notes it’s “Nymphenberger”.

On back cover: ‘All numbers arranged by [sic] East of Eden except …’ , where ‘arranged by’ takes the place of ‘composed by’ as stated in the 1st UK issue! All numbers have been actually arranged by East of Eden and exceptions concern 2 compositions.

Disc has 4 tracks on Side A: the last track is a very short final (0:13) of a folky tune (a sort of traditional dancing tune). It is listed as track 4 ‘PART III’ (East of Eden – 0:13) on label, but not on back sleeve index, where numbered tracks are only 3 and this last title is included in a total time (7:49) that actually should not include it (it’s 7:49 without this last track). So, this should be ‘Part III’ (in A3e position) of the whole ‘Medley’, but the existing physical and acoustic gap (some seconds of visible dead wax) makes it ‘act’ like a distinct track, so listed as A4. Note that instruments listed for the ‘Medley’ (‘Part III’ included) do not match this last track (violin + electric guitar, bass and drums, no saxes, no vocals). On UK first issue [r2112029] this same track (called ‘PART III’ on label but not present on back sleeve) is placed within the track 3, as the final title of the medley ‘In the Snow for a Blow’ that starts with ‘PART I’ (see label).

What should be the original Side A final track (A4) ‘Uno Transito Clapori’ (see UK fist issue [r2112029] and other issues), is actually absent on this US issue. And no mention of this title on labels/back sleeve.

Tracklist edited according to the real content and any consistent data from different issues variations.
Timings from back cover and/or labels: some are total timings of a set and include preceding titles that do not have their own time indication.

A1. Have To Whack It Up 2:20
A2a. Leaping Beauties For Rudy
A2b. Marcus Junior 7:01
A3a. Xhorkom
A3b. Ramadhan
A3c. In The Snow For A Blow (Medley) Part I
A3d. Better Git It In Your Soul 7:49
A4. Part III 0:13
B1a. Gum Arabic
B1b. Confucius 8:15
B2. Nymphenberger 5:46
B3a. Habibi Baby
B3b. Boehm Constrictor
B3c. Beast Of Sweden 6:16
B4. Traditional: Arranged By East Of Eden 1:33

Matrix / Runout ZAL 9435P AL
Matrix / Runout ZAL 9436P AL
Matrix / Runout ZAL 9435P .!.-AL 5-8-70 Bell Sound sƒ
Matrix / Runout ZAL 9436P .!.-AL 5-8-70 Bell Sound sƒ

Lacquer Cut At Bell Sound Studios

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