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ASTRAL NAVIGATIONS
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RELEASES
title performers recorded
Astral Navigations Chris Coombs and others / Thundermother 1970 - 1971

matrix no. release format information / description
release
date
number of copies
2006 value*
HG 114 vinyl LP Astral Navigations
1971
250
£250
HG 114 (MM1) vinyl LP

Magic Mixture reissue

1989
425
£35
HBG 122/1 CD Background first CD release 1992 1500 £18
KSG 012 CD Holyground the Works series : volume 4 2004 unlimited  
* from the Penguin RARE RECORD PRICE GUIDE

TRACK LISTINGS

initial release 1971     HG 114

side one Lightyears Away
(Chris Coombs and others)

  1. FOURTH COMING  (Calvert-Levon)
  2. PATH OF STONE  (Calvert-Levon)
  3. (a) WINDOWS OF LIMITED TIME  (Calvert-Levon)
    (b) THE ASTRAL NAVIGATOR  (Calvert-Levon)
  4. YESTERDAY  (Coombs)
  5. TODAY (North Country Cinderella)  (Coombs)
  6. TOMORROW (Buffalo)  (Coombs)

side two Thundermother
(Chris Coombs and others)

  1. SOMEDAY  (Newbould)
  2. COUNTRY LINES  (Wilkinson-Smith)
  3. BOOGIE MUSIC
    (L.T.Tateman III © Atu-Magoo Music)

NOTES
Sold in Yorkshire, Newcastle, London, England and by mail order . Boogie Music and Yesterday played on BBC Radio One by John Peel and Pete Drummond
Original Release :   15 MAY 1971

Background CD reissue 1992     HBG 122/1

additional tracks on the Background CD are from Astral sessions,
and a live recor
ding at Bretton Hall College in 1971

ROCK ME BABE  (Millen) COME ON HOME (space version)  (Millen)
WATCH YOUR STEP (live)  (John-Millen)

"Holygroung The Works" CD reissue 1992     HBG 122/1

full track by track details including words, musicians and recollections are on:
www.holyground.co.uk/astral/index

RECOGNISING AN ORIGINAL

Astral Navigations reissue cover
(black print on white paper wrap-round)

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.

Would you believe - the printer actually censored this! Presumably he thought it said SM(oke) PO(t)!!

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 I did sell a handful of albums I had left in the late 1980's - and you may have one of these without stickers or numbering.

The actual disc should have 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 should 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.