NICHOLAS GREENWOOD Cold Cuts `Kingdom` UK 1972 `MEGA RARE` Prog/Psych £4750

Here we have one of the most sought after records of them all. Recorded in 1969 by former `Crazy World of Arthur Brown` bassist `Nicholas Greenwood` but not released until 1972 on Kingdom records (KVL 9002) – a label best known for reggae/soul releases - it simply slipped under the radar. Titled `Cold Cuts` it came with a bizarre front cover showing `cuts of meat stacked like a person on a chair` (this probably didn’t help sales) but musically it is very strong, which is why a top UK copy sold for £4750 in 2014 and even lower condition copies will sell for £1000+ (there was also a 1973 Benelux release on Pink Elephant that sometimes sells for hundreds of pounds but it is the UK release on Kingdom that really fetches the money)
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Side 1
1. A Sea Of Holy Pleasure Parts I, II, III 0:00
2. Hope And Ambitions 7:12
3. Corruption 10:06
4. Lead Me On 13:17
5. Big Machine 17:06

1. Close The Doors 20:48
2. Melancholy 25:16
3. Images 28:42
4. Promised Land 32:02
5. Realisation And Death 35:15

Line-up - Musicians
Nicholas Greenwood - bass, vocals, effects, co-producer
Bryn Howarth - guitar
Chris Pritchard - guitar
Dick Henningham - keyboards
Bunk Gardner - woodwinds
Janet Lakatos - violin
Margaret Immerman - violin
Margaret Shipman - viola
Nils Oliver - cello
Eric Peachey drums
The Teardrops - harmony vocals
Charles Lamont - arrangements

Nicholas Greenwood was born in Hertford on March 2nd 1948. Having played bass and toured America and elsewhere with the Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, in 1969 he left the band to focus on his own music. After brewing up the material for Cold Cuts with his collaborator Dick Heninghem, they returned to America with drummer Eric Peachey in 1970 and recorded the album in Los Angeles, with engineer Richard Barcelona at the controls and Greenwood and Marc Chase producing. The sessions also included input from guest musicians including Bunk Gardner from the Mothers of Invention and Bryn Haworth, formerly of Les Fleur de Lys, and the powerful results are rightly regarded as a progressive rock classic.
Upon their return to the UK the trio formed Khan in April 1971, with ace guitarist Steve Hillage (formerly of Uriel, better-known as Arzachel, and then Egg). Managed by Terry King, who also handled Caravan, they gigged around the UK over the course of the year, supporting bands such as Audience, Lindisfarne, Genesis and Van Der Graaf Generator. Heninghem departed in October, and was replaced by Dave Stewart (previously of Egg) in time to rehearse and record an album in December. They continued to gig widely in 1972, but Greenwood departed in June (replaced by Nigel Griggs, later of Split Enz). Khan’s album, Space Shanty, appeared in September 1972.
At much the same time Terry King was setting up his own label, Kingdom Records, which finally issued Cold Cuts in December, almost three years after it had been recorded. Despite also appearing in France and Holland (on the Pink Elephant label), it made no impact at all. Part of this might be to do with the off-putting sleeve, which depicts a seated figure made out of meat. It was in fact a 1970 artwork by Australian-born Philippe Mora, entitled Pork Chop Ballad. According to his online biography, ‘in the Sigi Krauss Gallery’s exhibition in 1970, Mora’s main contribution was a life-size sculpture of a seated figure made entirely of meat, placed on a bentwood chair… The police were called when Princess Margaret complained about the stench when dining at the restaurant across the street, and Krauss was forced to move it to the back garden, where the neighbours, thinking the artwork was a murder victim, called in Scotland Yard again.’ The credit for the artwork went to Bon Seideman and noted US psychedelic artist John Van Hamersveld, who had also worked on Magical Mystery Tour by the Beatles, Crown Of Creation by Jefferson Airplane and Exile On Main Street by The Rolling Stones. It is not known how many copies of Cold Cuts were pressed or sold but it is at the apex of ultra rare UK prog items.

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