Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery / First Japanese Pressing From The Legend Cover Release - LP - 日本媒体 - 1973

Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Brain Salad Surgery

For the upcoming album, Peter Zumsteg, the manager of the record label, introduced Emerson to the artist HR Giger. In April 1973 the group played a two-day concert in Zurich as part of their European tour. After the concert, Emerson and Zumsteg visited the artist in his home. Coincidentally, under the influence of the music of Emerson, Lake, & Palmer, Giger had just created a triptych entitled Work 216: Landscape XIX. When he revealed the triptych to his guests, Emerson immediately decided to use it for the album cover. Giger painted two new pictures, Work 217: ELP I and Work 218: ELP II, roughly the size of the vinyl record cover. The group chose the first picture as the cover picture. It shows a human skull clamped in a machine in the monochrome biomechanical style typical of Giger over the new ELP logo, also designed by Giger, which Emerson, Lake and Palmer has carried since then.

After the end of an exhibition of Giger's works in Prague, both original paintings Work 217: ELP I and Work 218: ELP II were lost on August 31, 2005, where they were presumably stolen and have not reappeared since. (I do not have them :))

Tracklist:
A1 Jerusalem
A2 Toccata
A3 Still... You Turn Me On
A4 Benny The Bouncer

B1 Karn Evil 9 (1st Impression - Part 2)
B2 Karn Evil 9 (2nd Impression)

Organ, Piano, Harpsichord, Accordion, Synthesizer [Costom Built Moog Synthsizers], Electronics [Moog Polyphonic Ensemble] – Keith Emerson
Percussion, Synthesizer [Percussion Synthesizers] – Carl Palmer
Vocals, Bass, Twelve-String Guitar, Electric Guitar [Zemaitis Electric 6 String] – Greg Lake

Notes
1973 Manticore Records Limited
Printed in Japan

Toccata an adaption of Ginastera´s 1st Piano Concerto, 4th movement.

Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, stamped): P - 8395 M1 8 - 3 1 - B - 52 (1) 2 3 [Symbol]
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, stamped): P - 8395 M2 2 - A - 34 (1) 2 3 [Symbol]

Condition:
LP / VG+ to NM (only fine, flat, thread scratches from the years without effect)
OBI / VG+ to NM (wrinkles and very light age spots on backside)
Cover /VG+ ( light wrinkles on backside, in the l door on top a a light wear )
Insert/ VG++ to NM ( light grey)
Poster Mint ( you know its folded)
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