An album equal parts pastoral folk and contemplative psychedelic; perhaps the reason the term “acid-folk” exists; one of rock’s rarest and most sought-after albums. Pressed by Broadside Hacks to coincide with Mark Fry & guests performing Dreaming With Alice in it’s entirety for the first time ever, at EartH Theatre, London on Friday 9th October, 2026.

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.

All songs P and C 1971, 2026 Mark Fry

Original recording produced by Laura Papi

Recorded in Rome, Italy, in 1971

This version mastered by Nick Webb at Abbey Road in 2006

Remastered by Guy Davie at Electric Mastering in 2026

With thanks to Gordon Wallace and Richard Morton Jack

Cover photography by Colin Vallance

Booklet photography by Colin Vallance (1) and Giorgio Cipriana (2&3)

Design by Caio Wheelhouse