*Comes in a CD-sized papersleeve album replica (gatefold), with obi-strip and insert of notes mostly in Japanese..2024 stock* 1973s brilliant Celestial Ocean, by the legendary Swiss krautrock band Brainticket, is a concept album that details an ancient pharoahs journey into the afterlife (substitute the word "journey" for "trip" and youll get what they were driving at). However, Brainticket were not mere products of their time, they explored some truly compelling musical territory and produced a superlative blanket of sound-featuring a pioneering mix of early synthesizers, flute, zither, sitar, and male / female stream-of-consciousness spoken word vocals-that ebbs and flows in the same general cosmos as classic Gong. This reissue is fully remastered from the original master tapes.
Comes in a gatefold Mini LP sleeve replicating the original wallet type gatefold with the CD opening at the top with an extra Mini LP Sleeve for CD 2, an insert mainly in Japanese & a poster. NOTE: CD 1 is a SHM CD, CD 2 is a standard CD. Tracks 1-1 to 1-8 originally released as LP " Celestial Ocean " in 1973 [RCA Victor DLISP 34158] Tracks 2-1 to 2-12 originally released as LP " Live In Rome 1973 " in 2011 [Cleopatra CLP 6611] Tracks 1-1 to 1-8 recorded at RCA Studios, Rome, Italy, August & September 1972 Tracks 2-1 to 2-12 Recorded live in Rome, Italy, October 3, 1973
