Release date: 21-02-2007 (originally released in 1969)

2007 Japanese exclusive strictly limited edition 13-track LP pressed on 180gram VINYL; originally released in 1969, their debut release was recorded during their teen years and produced by Jonathan King, presented in a high quality front-laminated picture sleeve, with replicas of the original record labels, sealed in an individually numbered stickered PVC sleeve, complete with a replica of the original lyric sheet plus an additional lyric insert

Tracks:
01. Where The Sour Turns to Sweet
02. In The Beginning
03. Fireside Song
04. The Serpent
05. Am I Very Wrong?
06. In the Wilderness
07. The Conqueror
08. In Hiding
09. One Day
10. Window
11. In Limbo
12. Silent Sun
13. A Place to Call My Own

This Genesis collection, which has appeared under license to various labels in addition to Decca and London in different configurations, is largely of historical interest. The group was still in its formative stages, the members barely past their 18th birthdays and still working out what they wanted to sound like. Mostly they sound like the Bee Gees trying to be the Moody Blues (picture something similar to the sound of the former group's Odessa album). 'The Silent Sun' and 'Where the Sour Turns to Sweet' are pleasant enough, but scarcely indicate the true potential of the group or its members. A pleasant enough piece of pop-psychedelia/art rock, but not a critically important release, except to the truly dedicated.

The group started as Genesis, biblical centuries ago. But fate intervened, other groups became Genesis and who were we to fight. So we changed our name in America to Revelation. Moments later up came another Revelation. Now we are the group without a name, but we have a record and we want to give it to you, name or not. It was a hard sound to get together, conceived over a period of months, with rainbows of music colour filtering through the glass partition on to the sliding faders and echo knobs, searching for the pot of gold. From Genesis to Revelation. Sporadic moments in between; thoughts of a very young group looking shortly back and far forward, over the grey mountains of time shrouded in the mist of harmony. We hope you will find no one to compare it with, not because we don't want to be compared, but because there are better things to do. We hope you won't find it pretentious or humourless because it was intended to be neither. It was intended to be just very pleasant. Melodic, unusual, containing what is natural and genuine. Sometimes, before the hard age of flitting teens, shapes are sharper, patterns clearer, ideas more simple and statements more crystal. Sometimes, indeed, wrongly so. Sometimes rightly. Always, in truth, interesting and valid as an experience for the senses, for the mind. Those years between fifteen and twenty. No longer boy or girl, not yet man or woman. Confused by the bright light of age, remembering the hazy mellowness of youth. Years when one tries to go back, forwards, upwards, downwards- never to remain static, at peace in growing up. Listen and cast your mind into the sound spectrum. Hear what you hear - smile and enjoy, from the beginning to the end, from Genesis to Revelation.