Pearls Before Swine – “The Wizard of is (2022 Re-issue)” (Released 18th November 2022)

Description

//Earth Recordings//

£25.99 – 2xLP, Gatefold Vinyl (plus DL Code with Bonus Tracks)

For the first time on vinyl, this beautiful collection brings together alternate versions of Rapp originals ‘The Jeweler’, ‘Translucent Carriages’ and ‘Rocket Man’. It also includes jaw-dropping covers of Rapp’s contemporaries Cohen, Dylan and Joni Mitchell, with bonus download material featuring seven amazing live versions plus a never before released intimate show at The Other End circa 1976.

A goldmine of possibilities from a prospector with a silver tongue and stories to tell. ‘The Wizard Of Is’ is a weird and wonderful trip inside its creator’s mind, from sonnets and space hymns to stories of revolution and the war. It’s an American Gothic fantasy that straddles old tyme America and the outer edges of an imagined stratosphere.

Tracklisting:

Side A

1 Where Is Love?
2 Butterflies (Alternate Version)
3 Love, You Are Not Alone
4 Grace Street
5 Translucent Carriages (Alternate Version)
6 Space

Side B

1 Rocket Man (Alternate Version)
2 City Of Gold (Alternate Version)
3 For Free
4 Wizard Of Is (Alternate Version)
5 Riegal (Alternate Version)
6 Sail Away (Alternate Version)
7 Footnote/When The War Began

Side C

1 Everybody’s Got Pain (Alternate Version)
2 Crawling Towards Bethlehem
3 I’m Going To The City (Alternate Version)
4 Can’t Go Back
5 Prisoner Of War
6 Another Time (Alternate Version)
7 If You Don’t Want To (I Don’t Mind) (Alternate Version)
8 (Oh Dear) Miss Morse (Alternate Version)

Side D

1 The Jeweler (Alternate Version)
2 The Lincoln Dream
3 There’s No Other (Like My Baby
4 Roadside Hotel
5 Song About A Rose (Alternate Version)
6 Mary Mary
7 Crew Man
8 Suzanne
9 Oh Sister
10 Full Fathom Five/I Shall Not Care

Bonus download tracks

1 Translucent Carriages (Live)
2 Island Lady (Live)
3 Morning Song (Live)
4 Marshall (Live)
5 Ballad to An Amber Lady / I Saw the World (Live)
6 Prayers Of Action / Candle (Live)
7 Rocket Man (Live)