Name: A Midsummer’s Night Dream,
Brand: Oberon

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CRSEG090D

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-04-16

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cherry Red (ADA)

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5013929189027

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Total Cap

2 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Oberon

Genre GB

Psychedelic

Label GB

Grapefruit

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.

Recorded by students at the start of their summer holidays, Oberon’s self-financed, 99-copies-only 1971 album A Midsummer’s Night Dream is one of the rarest, most expensive artefacts to emerge from the primordial soup of the early Seventies British underground scene.

More importantly, it also boasts a reputation as one of the most vital, with one commentator suggesting that “at least one of the few copies pressed should be preserved in the British Museum”.

Having featured tracks from the album on the heavily-praised 3-CD British underground folk collections Dust On The Nettles and Sumer Is Icumen In, the Grapefruit label now celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the making of A Midsummer’s Night Dream by issuing the album in its entirety.

With a second disc comprising a live show recorded roughly three months before the album, this remastered 2-CD digipak edition – featuring rare photos and a new essay on the band – is the definitive release of a fascinating dropped stitch in the fabric of the early Seventies underground folk cosmology.

A Midsummer’s Night Dream,

Music GB