Name: I Am The Witch – The Anthology
Brand: Circus 2000

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Catalogue number

CRSEG127D

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-04-14

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Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cherry Red (ADA)

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Standard:20

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&nbsp;5013929192720

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CDx2

Artist

Circus 2000

Genre GB

Psychedelic

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Grapefruit

<p>Grapefruit is a UK-based music label that specializes in psych/garage-era music from the 1966-70 timeframe. Managed by Cherry Red, Grapefruit focuses on releasing single-artist career anthologies and definitive versions of rare and classic albums. Each release features sympathetic artwork, rare photos, detailed liner notes, and high-quality sound from the original masters.</p>

First-ever complete anthology of hugely collectable early 70s Italian psych/folk/prog band. Heavily influenced by early Jefferson Airplane with lead female vocals and English language lyrics. Fronted by Grace Slick-influenced singer Silvana Aliotta, Circus 2000 formed in Turin, north Italy in late 1969 in an attempt to emulate their British and American psychedelic heroes.

They made their vinyl debut a year later with a self-titled album featuring such superb, quasi-mystical songs as ‘Magic Bean’, ‘The Lord, He Has No Hands’ and the dramatic ‘I Am The Witch’.&nbsp;But the band struggled to find an audience, their guitar-led, song-based nature and English language vocals leaving them out of step with the complex, keyboard-based Italian progressive scene flourishing all around them.

After developing a more improvisational, underground-friendly sound on the thriving Italian festival circuit, they returned with a second album, ‘An Escape From A Box’.

Now regarded by European psychedelic collectors as their masterpiece, this five-track album welded their original Jefferson Airplane leanings with expansive Pink Floyd-esque arrangements that peaked on Side Two with the epic ‘Need’ and the spooked, climactic closer ‘When The Sun Refuses To Shine’.

Unable to make a commercial impact, the band broke up shortly afterwards, and it would be a couple of decades before Circus 2000’s music began to receive the attention that it deserved.

The first-ever complete anthology of their career,<i> I Am The Witch</i> naturally includes both of their highly sought-after albums as well as stand-alone singles, alternative versions and tracks that were intended for an aborted third album. Housed in a stylish digipak, it includes a new essay on their history, band quotes and some rare photos.

I Am The Witch – The Anthology

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