Side one big, full and dynamic, with horns and winds that are never screechy. (Side two of this first LP is very screechy and not at all to our liking.)
Side two of the second record has the sound of live music. Huge space, clear yet rich, this is the sound we were looking for! (more…)
More of the music of Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Factory Sealed CS 6734 with the super rare Pioneer spacecraft booklet inside the shrink!
There’s a very good chance this is the last such copy on the planet. I have never seen one before, and I remember when this record came out, so probably few were made with this special booklet included.
I’m guessing it has about a dozen pages or so, and probably talks about the Pioneer mission to Jupiter.
“Launched on 2 March 1972, Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to travel through the Asteroid belt, and the first spacecraft to make direct observations and obtain close-up images of Jupiter. Famed as the most remote object ever made by man through most of its mission, Pioneer 10 is now over 8 billion miles away.”
