Pearls Before Swine Balaklava
1968 Vinyl
Folk Rock
Psychedelic Rock

Main image
ESP-Disk'
banjo, harmony vocals [harmony] Wayne Harley
bass, guitar, horn [swinehorn] Lane Lederer
design concept [cover concept], music consultant [musical advisor], artwork [art research assistant] Maureen Kintz
guitar, vocals, voice [breathing] Tom Rapp
illustration [back cover drawings] Jean Cocteau
organ, piano, clavinet [clavinette], marimba Jim Bohannon
painting [front cover] Pieter Bruegel the Elder
photography by [back cover photo] Mel Zimmer
recorded by [aerialvaced out of onlyville by] Richard Alderson
tracks a2 to a6, b2, b4 written-by Tom Rapp
Copyright (c) ESP-Disk'
Copyright (c) United International Copyright Representatives, Ltd.
Published By United International Copyright Representatives, Ltd.
Published By Project Seven Stranger Music
Recorded At Impact Sound Studios
Original US release with artwork from the front sleeve used as a background on the labels, with white typeset..
Track titles are not printed on the labels.

Trumpeter Landfrey.... is reprised in the runout groove on side B.

A2 to A5 & B2 & B4 (c) 1968 by United International Copyright Representatives, Ltd., (ASCAP)
B1 published by Project Seven Stranger Music, Inc. (BMI)

Track A6 was recorded in Guadalupe, Mexico in 1929 on 78 r.p.m.
equipment and specially reprocessed for stereo.

Aerialvaced Out Of Onlyville, Impact Sound, n.y.c.


Front cover / a section of
The Triumph Of Death by Breughel The Elder, courtesy of
the Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain.

Printed In U.S.A.

Initial copies of this release included a 7x 28 poster & a lyrics insert:

The color insert is a reproduction of
THE GARDEN OF DELIGHTS by Hieronymus Bosch
Prado Museum, Madrid.
Reproduced by ESP-DISK', Ltd, with the assistance of
the New York Graphic Society. Printed in U.S.A.

The second insert (folded into three, or four, equal sections) has the lyrics printed on it.

Some later represses may also include the poster / insert.
Rights Society: ASCAP
Rights Society: BMI
Matrix / Runout: EPS-S-1075-A R12716A ┏∟ (Side A, runout variant 1)
Matrix / Runout: EPS-S-1075-B R12716B ┏∟ (Side B, runout variant 1)
Matrix / Runout: EPS-S-1075-A ┏∟ (Side A, runout variant 2)
Matrix / Runout: EPS-S-1075-B ┏∟ (Side B, runout variant 2)
Matrix / Runout: EPS-S-1075-A R12716A ┏∟ (Side A, runout variant 3)
Matrix / Runout: EPS-S-1075-B ┏∟ R12716B (Side B, runout variant 3)



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