Astral Navigations Full Album – Holyground Very Rare Psych 1971 Private Pressing
Astral Navigations is really a recording of two different bands, Lightyears Away and Thundermother. Lightyears Away is folk/psych and features Bill Nelson who was later to join with Be-Bop Deluxe. Thundermother are more straight-ahead rock with heavy guitars. Relatively obscure uk psychedelia/acid folk from 1971. Only 250 copies of this release were originally pressed. Great and rare stuff! See photos for rare pictures of LP, See my other rare LP`S/Tracks on You Tube
1. Lightyears Away: Fourth Coming
2. Lightyears Away: Path of Stone
3. Lightyears Away: Windows of Limited Time
4. Lightyears Away: Yesterday
5. Lightyears Away: Today
6. Lightyears Away: Tomorrow
7. Thundermother: Someday Newbould
8. Thundermother: Country Lines
9. Thundermother: Boogie Music
How to tell if you have one of the original releases from 1971:
The original cover has a thin black-and-white paper print which wraps around a plain white (unnumbered) card sleeve. The paper is rather rough (and white) on the inside.
If the cover image has a specific section missing it will be original. In the image on the back cover there are several tall ‘stones’ on the left hand side. The second one from the left should have had the letters “SM” and below that “PO” visible.
If your ‘stone’ has a jagged cut out instead of the letters you have an original cover. The inside card sleeve should have stickers back and front – but they did sell a handful of albums they had left in the late 1980’s – and you may have one of these without stickers or numbering.
The actual disc has photographic images of a woman on both sides of the b&w label, and the matrix number and other info in the plastic round the label will say: “NSR 172 1A” and “NSR 173 1A” on the other side.
There is also a (blue and black covered) booklet which, on the first page, gives a review of the work of the two groups included on the LP. That was in the first release too – the card is a darker blue than the reissued vinyl in 1990, and the booklet is actually larger. On the booklet you can see the “SM” and the “PO” I referred to – on all versions including originals.
