VARIOUS A Game For All Who Know - The H & F Recordings Box (2017 UK 5-CD compilation set - Between 1968-74, amateur songwriters, musicians & home taping enthusiasts Peter Howell & John Ferdinando retreated to their makeshift home studio in East Sussex to mastermind a series of privately-issued albums that were attributed to semi-fictitious group names such as 'Ithaca' & 'Agincourt'. Only pressed in double-digit quantities, those albums are now amongst the most valuable vinyl artefactsof the era, with copies selling for upwards of £2,000 on the extremely rare occasions that they surface. This collector's box gathers all four albums & adds an unreleased-at-the-time fifth, the Friends LP Fragile, which was abandoned at acetate stage after Howell accepted an invitation in 1974 to join the BBC Radiophonic Workshop on a full-time basis. The first four albums are presented in miniature card sleeve replicas of the original vinyl artwork, while the Friends album recreates the duo's original plans for the artwork had the LP reached pressing stage. Taken from the original master tapes, the discs are housed in a clamshell picture box complete with a booklet that features a new 7000-word essay on their activities, fresh interviews & previously unpublished photos) more...
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PETER HOWELL & JOHN FERDINANDO Alice Through The Looking Glass (1996 UK limited numbered edition 12-track heavyweight 180g vinyl LP, glossy picture sleeve with extensive liner notes. Reissue of the monster rare psych/folk limitededition private press album originally issued in 1969, this was the first release by John Ferdinando and Peter Howell who would go on to mastermind five legendary privately pressed albums, all under assumed names: Agincourt, Alice Through theLooking Glass, Ithaca and Friends. The sleeve is Excellent with a little creasing in places, the vinyl is in Near Mint condition TP032) more...
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PETER HOWELL & JOHN FERDINANDO Alice Through The Looking Glass (Monster rare psych/folk limited edition 1969 UK-only private press 12-track vinyl LP on the Sound News Productions imprint, housed in a unique, oversized, silk-laminated picture sleeve. This 1969 longplayer was the first release by the budding production duo who would go on to release four 'holy grail' private press LPs (and one acetate). In 1969 local amateur dramatic society the Ditchling Players were looking for some music to flesh out their production of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice Through the Looking Glass'; enter John Ferdinando and Peter Howell, two local budding sound recordists/musicians who not only had a room full of exotic instruments (flageolet, glockenspiel, auto-harp anyone?) but crucially had just purchased a shiny new Revox Tape Recorder! Punching well above their musical weight they crafted strange instrumental passages, utilising an array of oddball recording/production techniques in order to enhance the spoken word passages of the play - let's just say they went beyond the call of duty! Incredibly, Howell and Ferdinando would go on to mastermind five legendary privately pressed albums, all under assumed names: Agincourt, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Ithaca and Friends - jeez!! All of their recordings were pressed in tiny double-digit quantities [pressing any more than 99 copies made you liable for a tax bill] and were given out to cast members, friends and family. It's rumoured that 50 copies of 'Alice' were made, how many survived, even less. Please see 'more info' for further details... SNP11/12) more...
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AGINCOURT Fly Away (2011 UK limited edition 13-track vinyl LP issue of their 1970 album now released as part of Record Collector Magazine's 'Rare Vinyl' series, housed in the illustrated picture sleeve complete a lyric insert and the laminatedindividually numbered certificate of authenticity signed by Editor Ian Shirley RCLP001)
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AGINCOURT Fly Away (Monster rare & highly sought after limited edition 1970 UK-only private press 13-track vinyl LP on the Merlin imprint, an original first press with rough textured blue label & 'ridge', complete with die-cut poly patent plain inner sleeve, homemade wraparound picture sleeve and paper lyric insert. Please see 'more info' for this stupendous British rarity... HF3) more...
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PETER HOWELL & JOHN FERDINANDO Tomorrow Come Someday (Monster rare & highly sought after limited edition 1969 UK-only private press 12-track vinyl LP on the Sound News Productions imprint, an original first press with rough textured label & 'ridge', complete with the die-cut poly patent plain sleeve & the orange thick card flipback picture sleeve, with annotated address along the top on the front & signed 'John F + Peter H. - You're Our Favourite 'Extra' Aren't You?' in blackmarker pen on the back. Please see 'more info' for this stupendous British rarity... SNP97) more...
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