New CD ESP 4003 Pearls Before Swine / The Complete ESP-DISK' Recordings

Both classic ESP albums (One Nation Underground and Balaklava) on one disc for the first time, with an extensive booklet and new liner notes, including complete lyrics.

"Tom Rapp, an 18 year-old draft resistor and college dropout living in Eaugallie, Florida, sent a small unsolicited reel of tape to ESP. Bernard Stollman invited him to bring his musicians to New York, where they recorded their acclaimed debut, One Nation Underground in 1967. Less than a year later, they released the equally strong follow-up, Balaklava. Classics of the genre, which certainly would have seen wider attention had ESP survived past 1968, these recordings are getting a well-deserved second chance, thanks to a thorough remastering, under the supervision of Tom Rapp." - ESP-Disk'


Personnel

Tom Rapp: vocals, guitar
Lane Lederer: guitar, bass guitar
Wayne Harley: banjo, background vocals
Jim Bohannon: piano, clavinet, organ, marimba

additional personnel:
Al Shackman: guitar
Joe Farrell: flute, English horn
Lee Crabtree: flute, piano, organ
Bill Salter: double bass


Track Listing
1. Another Time 3:05
2. Playmate 2:21
3. Ballad To An Amber Lady 5:15
4. (Oh Dear) Miss Morse 1:56
5. Drop Out! 4:06
6. Morning Song 4:08
7. Regions Of May 3:29
8. Uncle John 2:56
9. I Shall Not Care 5:22
10. The Surrealist Waltz 3:31
11. Trumpeter Landfrey 0:36
12. Translucent Carriages 4:03
13. Images Of April 2:43
14. There Was A Man 2:58
15. I Saw The World 3:26
16. Guardian Angels 3:04
17. Suzanne 4:59
18. Lepers And Roses 5:22
19. Florence Nightingale 0:18
20. Ring Thing 3:31

All tracks (Syndicore Music BMI) except track 2 (Anne-Rachel Music ASCAP), track 17 (Suzanne, C Project Seven Music) and tracks 11 and 19 (ESP Disk' Ltd. BMI).

Credits

Tracks 1-10 One Nation Underground (ESP 1054): recorded at IMPACT Sound Studios in NYC, May 6-9, 1967.
Tracks 11-20 Balaklava (ESP 1075): Recorded at IMPACT Sound Studios in NYC, 1968.
Producer, Director, Engineer: Richard L. Alderson. Reissue production, engineering, editing, and mastering: Joe Phillips, WildCat Recording USA, Massena, NY.

Press Quotes

"Psychedelic-folk debut from one of the most erudite, literate minds in rock ("One Nation Underground" Review)", Peter Kurtz, All Music Guide

"But Balaklava isn't just acid-trip background music. It's probably the best example of what Rapp calls "constructive melancholy" (also the name of a recent CD collection of Pearls songs), a combination of the real with the surreal, and it's indispensable to any serious '60s rock collection." - Peter Kurtz, All Music Guide

(ESP-Disk')