Philwit & Pegasus-Philwit & Pegasus-'70 Concept-NEW LP

8435008875527    MRSSS 552    

LP    PHILWIT & PEGASUS    PHILWIT & PEGASUS   

Philwit & Pegasus – Philwit & Pegasus
Philwit & Pegasus - Philwit & Pegasus
Label:    ViNiLiSSSiMO – MRSSS552
Format:    
Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
Country:    Spain
Released:    2018
Genre:    Rock, Pop, Stage & Screen
Style:    Ballad

Fantastic concept LP released in 1970 and masterminded by producer Mark Wirtz together with Maria Feltham, who wrote most of the songs.

Its wonderfully arranged sound gravitates towards varied influences: folk-pop, soft psych, chamber pop, late 60s rock… The featured vocalists and musicians include John Carter (The Flower Pot Men), Roger Greenaway, Peter Lee Stirling and Chris Spedding, among other talented artists. Presented in facsimile artwork and pressed on 180g vinyl.

It may look kind of weird but the one person’s name that has to be brought up here neither played or sung on this album. Mark Wirtz is the mastermind behind this long-forgotten concept LP released in 1970 by Chapter One Records, a one-off studio project he put together with his girlfriend at the time, Maria Feltham, who wrote most of the songs.

Although the album is supposed to be driven by a common concept, its sound gravitates towards broad influences: there are fierce guitars and also soft psych passages, it gets as close to easy listening as to rock.

During the 60s Mark Wirtz was an in-house producer for EMI, working on the Studio 2 series. The next milestones in his career were “A Teenage Opera”, a musical project that was never released as an entire work, and producing Tomorrow’s self-titled debut LP, a psychedelic masterpiece. In 1969 Mark resigned from his post at EMI Records to return to independent production and approached Les Reed’s Chapter One label for the release of his new Philwit & Pegasus project, recorded by a group of musicians that includes John Carter (The Flower Pot Men), Roger Greenaway or Peter Lee Stirling on vocals, and Chris Spedding on guitar, among other talented artists. The album starts with ‘Happiness’, featuring incredible vocal harmonies, followed by the outstanding ‘Yoyo Thoughts’, a folk-pop delight, but half way through it we reach some of the strongest songs on the LP: the energetic ‘My What a Lovely Day It’s Been’, ‘Lonely Flower’ and ‘Spinning Carousel’, which echo The Beach Boys and Love and create an intimate yet vaporous vibe. Fans of sunshine and chamber pop coupled with memorable songwriting will be enthralled by this album. P

A1        Happiness
A2        Pauper's Son
A3        Yoyo Thoughts
A4        And I Try
A5        Winterface
A6        My What A Lovely Day It's Been
A7        Jim Come Here
B1        Philwit's Fantasies
B2        Lonely Flower
B3        Spinning Carousel
B4        To Pegasus With Love
B5        And She Came
B6        Final Thought

    Arranged By, Directed By – Mark Wirtz
    Engineer – John Timperly*
    Producer – Mark Wirtz, Nick Ryan
    Written-By – Maria Feltham, Mark Wirtz