The first time since 1971 that this album
has been run from the original master
tapes, recently discovered in Italy.
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 sub-label 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.
The pristine source material reveals nuances not
heard on anything but original It pressings and pairs
Alice with previously-unreleased recordings from
the mid-70s.
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