After "Necromancers of the Drifting West" has been released, some reviews are surfacing from the Net...
"When I saw this and saw no information about it, as well as who was releasing it, I was very, very suspicious, but I am very happy to report that this is a great and very high quality release sonically for all very rare or unreleased recordings from 45 years ago. First there is 16' of the TEB's very first professional recordings, then there is a high quality outtake from the 1st album, a very interesting, electric outtake from their shelved third Harvest album, from before Macbeth, and three off-air, but quite decent sounding tracks from a BBC "In Concert" broadcast, hosted by John Peel. It additionally features informative and seemingly correct notes from uberfan and band archivist Luca Ferrari. In short - any fan of the band has to own this. Highly recommended."
(Wayside Music - http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Products/Third-Ear-Band-Necromancers-Of-The-Drifting-West__25-USD-CD-HST311CD.aspx)
"Third Ear Band were a British psychedelic folk band
that evolved within the London alternative and free-music scene of the
mid-1960s. Members came from The Giant Sun Trolley and The People Band
to create an improvised music drawing on Eastern raga forms, European
folk, experimental and medieval influences. They recorded their first
session in 1968 for Ron Geesin which was released under the pseudonym of
The National Balkan Ensemble on one side of a Standard Music Library
disc. Their first actual album, Alchemy, was released on the EMI Harvest
label in 1969, (featuring John Peel playing jaw harp on one track),
followed by Air, Earth, Fire, Water (aka Elements) in 1970. They
recorded two soundtracks, the first in 1970 for an animated film by
Herbert Fuchs of Abelard and Heloise (which first saw release as part of
Luca Ferrari's Necromancers of the Drifting West Sonic Book in 1997)
Luca writes: On 1996, when I decided to write a book on the Third Ear
Band, I collaborated with of all the members of the group, except
Richard Coff (apparently no one knew where he was) and Ursula Smith.
The first time the title was intended for the book, it was called
"Tickling the Third Ear" and the idea was to make an historical,
chronological reconstruction of the TEB's story to free the band from
that aura of mystery surrounding his story. But just at the end of the
writing, when I completed the essay for the introduction, I decided for
"Necromancers of the Drifting West": for myself, in fact, the Band has
advanced the so-called World Music and the multicultural/intercultural
dimension of the relation between West and the rest of the world. At the
same time, in my opinion, their music was a sort of sign, a monition of
musical (and cultural) decline of the old Europe (for that reason the
image of 'necromancers'). A group strongly political, I think, because
"silence", acoustic (as natural) sounds (no words), minimalism
aesthetic, are really 'political' today, in this age of excess of
experiences."
(Downtown Music Gallery Newsletter, July 2015 - http://www.downtownmusicgallery.com/Main/news/Newsletter-2015-07-17.html)
"Le label Gonzo Multimedia s'apprête à sortir deux CD d'archives du mythique groupe acid-ethno-experimentalo-médiévalo-folko-psychedelico-etc. THIRD EAR BAND.
Le premier, Necromancers of the Drifting West (du titre de l'ouvrage de Luca Ferrari, grand porte-parole de la légende du groupe), contient huit morceaux enregistrés entre 1968 et 1971 et restés officiellement inédits jusqu'à aujourd'hui. On y trouvera ainsi des pièces du National Balkan Ensemble (pré-THIRD EAR BAND), un inédit issu des sessions du premier album, Alchemy, un inédit provenant d'une session pour un disque qui n'a jamais vu le jour et une session BBC de 1971.
Necromancers of the Drifting West sortira le 25 mai prochain, et devrait être suivi de la publication d'un concert du groupe (dans sa configuration des années 1980-90) qui n'était sorti qu'en K7. Restez à l'écoute..."
Le premier, Necromancers of the Drifting West (du titre de l'ouvrage de Luca Ferrari, grand porte-parole de la légende du groupe), contient huit morceaux enregistrés entre 1968 et 1971 et restés officiellement inédits jusqu'à aujourd'hui. On y trouvera ainsi des pièces du National Balkan Ensemble (pré-THIRD EAR BAND), un inédit issu des sessions du premier album, Alchemy, un inédit provenant d'une session pour un disque qui n'a jamais vu le jour et une session BBC de 1971.
Necromancers of the Drifting West sortira le 25 mai prochain, et devrait être suivi de la publication d'un concert du groupe (dans sa configuration des années 1980-90) qui n'était sorti qu'en K7. Restez à l'écoute..."
(Traverses magazine, May 2015 - www.rythmes-croises.org/traversesmag/modules/news/article.php?storyid=584)
no©2015 Luca Ferrari (unless you intend to make a profit. In which case, ask first)
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