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box complete with a booklet that features a new 7000-word essay on their activities, fresh interviews & previously unpublished photos) more...
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