Magic Mixture reissue

initial release 1971     HG 114

side one Lightyears Away
(Chris Coombs and others)

1. FOURTH COMING  (Calvert-Levon)
2. PATH OF STONE  (Calvert-Levon)
3. (a) WINDOWS OF LIMITED TIME  (Calvert-Levon)
   (b) THE ASTRAL NAVIGATOR  (Calvert-Levon)
4. YESTERDAY  (Coombs)
5. TODAY (North Country Cinderella)  (Coombs)
6. TOMORROW (Buffalo)  (Coombs)
   

side two Thundermother
(Chris Coombs and others)

1. SOMEDAY  (Newbould)
2. COUNTRY LINES  (Wilkinson-Smith)
3. BOOGIE MUSIC
   (L.T.Tateman III © Atu-Magoo Music)

NOTES
Sold in Yorkshire, Newcastle, London, England and by mail order . Boogie Music and Yesterday played on BBC Radio One by John Peel and Pete Drummond
Original Release :   15 MAY 1971

Background CD reissue 1992     HBG 122/1

additional tracks on the Background CD are from Astral sessions,
and a live recording at Bretton Hall College in 1971

ROCK ME BABE  (Millen) COME ON HOME (space version)  (Millen)
WATCH YOUR STEP (live)  (John-Millen)

"Holygroung The Works" CD reissue 1992     HBG 122/1

full track by track details including words, musicians and recollections are on:
www.holyground.co.uk/astral/index

How to tell if you have one of the original releases from 1971

The original cover has a thin black-and-white paper print which wraps around a plain white (unnumbered) card sleeve. The paper is rather rough (and white) on the inside.

If the cover image has a specific section missing it will be original. In the image on the back cover there are several tall 'stones' on the left hand side. The second one from the left should have had the letters "SM" and below that "PO" visible.

Would you believe - the printer actually censored this! Presumably he thought it said SM(oke) PO(t)!!

If your 'stone' has a jagged cut out instead of the letters you have an original cover. The inside card sleeve should have stickers back and front - but I did sell a handful of albums I had left in the late 1980's - and you may have one of these without stickers or numbering.

The actual disc should have photographic images of a woman on both sides of the b&w label, and the matrix number and other info in the plastic round the label should say: "NSR 172 1A" and "NSR 173 1A" on the other side.

There is also a (blue and black covered) booklet which, on the first page, gives a review of the work of the two groups included on the LP. That was in the first release too - the card is a darker blue than the reissued vinyl in 1990, and the booklet is actually larger. On the booklet you can see the "SM" and the "PO" I referred to - on all versions including originals.