Dreaming With Alice (Bernie Grundman AA Master Tape Lacquer)

by Mark Fry

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This is the 19th release in the deluxe Now-Again Reserve Edition. A detailed book is included with the album, and that book is included as a bonus, digital PDF.

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The single LP version of the album first presented as part of the Now-Again Reserve Edition subscription series. The definitive reissue of this psychedelic masterpiece, transferred from the master tapes. This version does not contain the booklet that the Reserve Edition contained, but the booklet is available to purchasers here as a PDF bonus.

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The CD version of the Now-Again Reserve Edition release. The definitive reissue of this psychedelic masterpiece, transferred from the master tapes. Contains previously unreleased bonus tracks.

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1.	Dreaming With Alice (Verse 1) 00:40	buy track
2.	The Witch 06:44	buy track
3.	Dreaming With Alice (Verse 2) 00:33	buy track
4.	Song For Wilde 02:32	buy track
5.	Dreaming With Alice (Verse 3) 00:34	buy track
6.	Roses For Columbus 05:20	buy track
7.	A Norman Soldier 02:25	buy track
8.	Dreaming With Alice (Verse 4) 00:35	buy track
9.	Dreaming With Alice (Verse 5) 00:36	buy track
10.	Lute And Flute 03:58	buy track
11.	Dreaming With Alice (Verse 6) 00:33	buy track
12.	Down Narrow Streets 02:59	buy track
13.	Dreaming With Alice (Verse 7) 00:34	buy track
14.	Mandolin Man 08:19	buy track
15.	Dreaming With Alice (Verse 8) 01:39	buy track
16.	Rehtorb Ym No Hcram 02:28	buy track

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The definitive reissue of an album equal parts pastoral folk and contemplative psychedelic; perhaps the reason the term “acid-folk” exists; one of rock’s rarest and most sought-after albums. The first time since 1971 that this album has been pressed from the original master tapes, recently discovered in Italy. Lacquered directly from tape in an all-analog transfer by Bernie Grundman.

Mark Fry was 19 - recently graduated from high school and in Italy studying painting - when he walked barefooted into RCA’s Italian subsidiary, played some songs he’d written on his guitar and was signed to record the album that would become legend. The first recordings he made proved stuff, so he was paired with members of the Scottish band Middle of the Road, who were in Rome while under contract to RCA Italiana. Convening in a basement home studio with two 4-track reel-to-reel recorders, Mark’s visions coalesced in a dreamy, airy manner - “Nick Drake meets Dr. Strangely Strange with a touch of Lewis Carroll” The Word Magazine would later write.

Pressed in small amounts for Vincenzo Micocci’s RCA sublabel It, Alice remained an out of reach masterpiece for many but its creator, who returned to England in 1971 and subsequently traveled the world, playing music, sometimes recording and painting. By the time of its rediscovery, its master tapes were assumed lost. This pristine transfer reveals nuances not heard on anything but original It pressings.

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released January 31, 2023

Original sessions for Dreaming with Alice produced by Laura Papi; unreleased songs produced by Mark Fry.

This reissue produced by Eothen Alapatt

All songs licensed, and all photos and ephemera used, courtesy Mark Fry
Original sessions mixed and mastered at RCA Studios, Rome.

Tape transfers by Dan Johnson at Audio Archiving, Los Angeles.

Vinyl lacquer done directly from master tape by Bernie Grundman, Los Angeles.

Restoration and remastering of unreleased songs by Jason Bitner, Providence.

Art direction by Errol F. Richardson.

Cover and gatefold photograph by Colin Vallance.

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