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NOTES FROM OVERGROUND

“No announcements, numbers lasting 15 to 20 minutes, art form or con?

This might be valid criticism of (A) Thunderstorm (B) a cricket (C) Third Ear Band.

Their approach to music is different because there is no duality, no conflict between the natural element of chance and the human element of control, did the moon ask to be reflected in the water? If it wasn’t for the trees would the wind know when it was blowing? Paul Minns says there are some very beautiful forests in Hyde Park, trying to put titles to music is rather like trying to answer the question where does my hand when it becomes my fist”.

(From the Al Stewart-Third Ear Band 1970 tour programme)

OFFICIAL TEB DISCOGRAPHY

"ALCHEMY" (LP - Harvest SHVL 756, UK 1969)
"THIRD EAR BAND" (LP/CD - Harvest SHVL 773, UK 1970)
"MUSIC FROM MACBETH" (LP/CD - Harvest SHSP 4019, UK 1972) soundtrack
"EXPERIENCES" (LP - Harvest SHSM 2007, UK 1976) anthology
"NEW FORECASTS FROM THE THIRD EAR ALMANAC" (cassette - ADN RECO1, ITA 1989) live
"MAGIC MUSIC" (LP/CD - Materiali Sonori MASO 33053, ITA 1990)
"LIVE GHOSTS" (CD - Materiali Sonori MASO CD 90004, ITA 1993) live - reissue with bonus track
"ABELARD & HELOISE" (CD - Stampa Alternativa SB, ITA 1997) soundtrack
"THE MAGUS" (CD - Angel Air SJPCD 173, UK 2004)
"NECROMANCERS OF THE DRIFTING WEST" (CD - Gonzo Multimedia HST, UK 2015)
"NEW FORECASTS FROM THE THIRD EAR ALMANAC" (CD - Gonzo Multimedia HST, UK 2015)
"EXORCISMS" (CD - Gonzo Multimedia HST371, UK 2016)
"SPIRITS" (CD - Gonzo Multimedia, UK 2017)
"THIRD EAR BAND" (3CDs - Esoteric Recordings PECLEC 32653, UK 2018)

OTHER TEB RELEASES/APPEARANCES

"Picnic. A breath of fresh air" (2LPs - Harvest SHSS 1/2, UK 1970) various Harvest artists anthology
"Harvest Heritage. 20 Great" (LP - Harvest , UK 1977) various Harvest artists anthology
"The Harvest Story Vol. 1" (LP - Harvest EG 260097 1, UK 1984) various Harvest artists anthology
"All frontiers" (CD - Materiali Sonori MASO CD 90026, ITA 1991) various artists live compilation
"Sonora 2/91" (CD - Materiali Sonori, ITA 1991) various Materiali Sonori artists compilation
"Radio Session" (CD - Voiceprint VPR017, UK 1994) live album
"Materiali Sonori" (CD - Olis OM 0021, ITA 1996) various Materiali Sonori artists compilation
"Live" (CD - Voiceprint VP157CD, UK 1996) live album
"Magic Music" (CD - Blueprint BP257 CD, UK 1997)
"ABELARD & HELOISE" (CD - Blueprint, UK 1999)
"Harvest Festival" (5CDs - Harvest 521 1982 , 1999 ) various Harvest artists compilation
"April 1997 Releases" (2CDs - Voiceprint VP97/04, UK 1997) various Voiceprint artists compilation
"Hymn to the Sphynx" (2CDs - Mooncrest CREST DCD067, UK 2001) studio/live album
"Raga Live" (2LPs - Turning Point Music, ITA 2002) live album
"Art School Dancing" (CD - Harvest 538 7762, UK 2002) Various Harvest artists compilation
"A Harvest Record Anthology 1969/1974. A breath of fresh air" (2CDs - Harvest, UK 2007) Various Harvest Records artists compilation
"Progressive Rock Trilogy" (Music Brokers, ARG 2010) various artists
Ventis secundis, tene cursum. This is Progressive Rock!" (Angel Air, 2011) Various Angel Air artists compilation
"Prog Rocks!" (5CDs - EMI, UK 2013)

90% improvisation...

"I'd say ninety per cent of our music is improvisation. It's not really Indian music, although we use a drone instead of the usual bass line riffs. The music draws from everywhere.

"I think our appeal is that audiences can draw their own thing from us. We make no announcements and none of the numbers have titles. People in colleges we play come up after and say they can get fantastic images in their mind when they listen. We can offer a complete dream. The old Celtic bards used to have the same ability".

(Glen Sweeney interviewed by Chris Welch - “Melody Maker” July 12th, 1969)

MUSIC OF THE SPHERES

“Third Ear Band’s new album “Magic Music” is about music as pure vibrations, as such it can be linked with colour because colour is vibration. It can even be linked to the music of the spheres which states that the vibrations of the planets can be heard with the third ear (silence). The free ragas that we play are modal, each note can be heard as a sound-colour that produces its own mood. Our rhythms come from all over the world, and we use these ideas and many others to try to make a new world music”.

(Glen Sweeney, notes on the “Magic Music” inner cover, 1990)

SOLOS DISCOGRAPHIES

- GLEN SWEENEY -
Various Artists - "The greetings compact vol. 2" (CD - Materiali Sonori, 1990)
Glen Sweeney's Hydrogen Jukebox - "Prophecies" (CD - Materiali Sonori, 1991)
"Songs from the Hydrogen Jukebox" (CD - Floating World Records, UK 2012)
- PAUL MINNS -
Kevin Ayers - "Joy of the toy" (LP/CD - Harvest , 1970)
Kevin Ayers - "Caribbean Moon" (single - Harvest, 1973)
Kevin Ayers - "Odd Ditties" (LP/CD - Harvest, 1975)
- RICHARD COFF -
Bernie Taupin - "Bernie Taupin" (LP - Elektra, 1971)
- URSULA SMITH -
C.O.B. (Clive's Original Band) - "Spirit of love" (LP/CD - CBS, 1971)
The Kipper Family - "The Ever Decreasing Circle" (LP - Dambuster Records, 1985)
Peter Bellamy - "Maritime English Suite" (BBC 1982)
Big Ray - "Naked" (LP/CD - City Slang, 1991)
- MEL DAVIS -
"People Band" (LP/CD - Transatlantic, 1970)
- LYN DOBSON (selection) -
Manfred Mann - "Soul of Mann" (HMV, 1967)
Humble Pie - "As Safe as Yesterday is" (Immediate, 1969)
Soft Machine - "Third" (LP/CD - CBS, 1969)
John Martyn - "The road to ruin" (Island, 1970)
Mike Softley - "Sunrise" (CBS, 1970)
Soft Machine - "Fourth" (LP/CD - CBS, 1970)
Nick Drake . "Bryter Lyter" (LP/CD - Island, 1970)
"Jam sandwich" (LP - Fresh Air, 1974) solo album
Pete Hall - "The Estates" (LP - Pro, 1975)
Humble Pie - "Back Home Again" (Immediate, 1976)
Alan Stivell - "Before landing" (LP/CD - Fontana, 1977)
Hazchem - "Strange Attractor" (CD - Worldwide, 1990)
Pete Hall - "Wilderness Years" (tape - Imaginary, 1991)
Hazchem - "Star Map Excursion" (CD - Worldwide,1991)
Hall, Coxhill, Clyne, Rutherford, Dobson - "Figments of Imagination" (CD - Future Music, 1996)
- SIMON HOUSE (selection) -
High Tide - "Sea Shanties" (LP/CD - Liberty, 1969)
High Tide - "High Tide" (LP/CD - Liberty, 1970)
David Bowie - "Stage" (LP/CD - RCA, 1978)
David Bowie - "Lodger" (LP/CD - RCA, 1979)
Japan - "Tin Drum" (LP/CD - Virgin, 1981)
- DAVE TOMLIN -
The Bob Wallis Storyville Jazzmen (CD - GHB, 1959-2007)
Mike Taylor - "Pendulum" (CD - Sunbeam, 1969-2007)
Hazchem - "Strange attractor" (CD - Worldwide, 1990)
- PAUL BUCKMASTER (selection) -
David Bowie - "Space Oddity" (LP/CD - Philips, 1969)
Chitinous Ensemble - "Chitinous" (Decca, 1970)
Mick Farren - "Mona (The carnivorous circus)" (LP/CD - Transatlantic, 1970)
Elton John - "Elton John" (LP/CD - MCA, 1970)
Rolling Stones - "Sticky fingers" (LP/CD - Rolling Stones Records, 1971)
Carly Simon - "Hotcakes" (LP/CD - Elektra, 1974)
Elton John - "Single man" (LP/CD - Rocket, 1978)
- NEIL BLACK (selection) -
UB40 - "Present Arms" (LP/CD - DEP, 1981)
Joan Armatrading - ""Track Record" (LP/CD - A&M, 1983)