NEKTAR - Down To Earth

Item Description

Vinyl, , Terre Haute Press, Gatefold
LP Album Stereo

Label variant and Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute press.

First US Edition: Passport label with NO printing on label perimeter.
Later issues have perimeter text "Passport Records Inc. Marketed by ABC Records Inc. L.A. Calif..." or "Passport Records / Distributed By Famous Music Corp., New York 10023 / A G + W Company"

Recorded at Chipping Norton Studios, England, 22nd March to 1st April 1974.
Engineered (with help of the engineers handbook page 128 § 4). Remixed at Dierks Studios, Germany, 18th, 19th April and 13th to 15th June 1974.
Engineered (engineers handbook page 4 § 128 german version).
Mastered at Sterling Sound, New York City.
"Astral Man" re-mixed at Air Studios, London, November 20, 1974.
"Early Morning Clown" re-mixed at Dierks Studios, Germany, November 2, 1974.

Front-photography filmed on location in the wastelands of Wandsworth, England.
All other photographs made at Circus Krone at their site in Dortmund, Germany.

Published world-wide by Bellver Musikverlag (Frankfort)
Sub-published in the U.S. and Canada by by Bleu Disque Music Co., Inc. (ASCAP)

℗ 1974, Bellaphon Records / © 1975 Passport Records, Inc. / Marketed by ABC Records, Inc.
Produced for Bellaphon/Bacilus Records

[Runouts]
- Mostly etched, "STERLING" and some final mastering text (i.e. "D", "A") are stamped.