One of the best piece about the TEB ever written, this special feature edited by Kris Needs for Shindig! magazine is very good one; a real qualified tribute to the band, "remained the most intriguingly strange and mysteriously evocative of all"...
[Note: this is the last part of three related to the period 2017-2022. The first part (from 1966 to 1971) is available HERE; the second one (from 1972 to 2016) is available HERE].
2017
September
- "Brain Waves" CD reissue with Carolyn Looker's original cover and booklet notes by Luca Chino Ferrari. In the CD included also a bonus-track
November
7th - Arranger, producer, musician Paul Buckmaster passed away at his home in Los Angeles.
Read the sad news on Ghettoraga Archive here: https://ghettoraga.blogspot.com/2017/11/paul-buckmaster-passed-away-yesterday.html
Obituaries by the press here: https://ghettoraga.blogspot.com/2017/11/paul-buckmasters-obituaries.html
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| Paul Buckmaster at Air Studios during E. John's "Made in England" sessions, February-April 1994 (photo by John F. Higgins) |
2018
November
23rd - "Third Ear Band" reissued in a 3 CD remastered and expanded edition by Esoteric Recordings. Booklet notes by Luca Chino Ferrari.
A philological analysis by LCF here: https://ghettoraga.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-third-ear-band-cds-unrealised.html
2019
January
- "Music from Macbeth" original album reissued in a remastered and expanded CD edition by Esoteric Recordings (PECLEC 2656). Booklet notes by Luca Chino Ferrari.
March
29th - "Alchemy" original album reissued in a remastered and expanded 2CDs edition by Esoteric Recordings (PECLEC 22668). Booklet notes by Luca Chino Ferrari.
Read a critical review by LCF here: https://ghettoraga.blogspot.com/2019/05/alchemy-remastered-edition-critical.html
- A 3CDs anthology boxset of British folk is published by Cherry Red records/Grapefruit with the title "STRANGERS IN THE ROOM ~ A JOURNEY THROUGH THE BRITISH FOLK ROCK SCENE 1967-73".
June
31th - "The Magus" original album (originally edited in 2004 in CD only) is reissued by Tiger Bay in a 12" vinyl edition format (as TB6430).
September
27th - "Alchemy" vinyl 180gr edition released by Esoteric Recordings (PECLECLP 2668).
2020
June
Luca Chino Ferrari's book on the TEB titled "Glen Sweeney's Book of Alchemies. The life and times of the Third Ear Band, 1967-1973" is published and distributed by November Books (Recommended Records).
Read the publisher's press release HERE.
- Original "Music From Macbeth" is reissued in a vinyl edition (with insert) by Spanish label Munster Records. Liner notes by Fernando Naporano.
Read LCF's review of the record here: https://ghettoraga.blogspot.com/2020/09/macbeth-vinyl-edition-out-now.html
- Two extraordinary videos of the TEB from a TV appearance in October 1972 taken from ILEA (Inner London Education Authority) archive, appeared on a YouTube channel. The peculiarity of these excerpts is that this is the only existing video thing of Mike Marchant and Peter Pavli with the band.
Read a review and watch the videos here: https://ghettoraga.blogspot.com/2020/09/extraordinarly-amazing-teb-tv.html
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I've just found in the Web an old copy of "Disc & Music Echo", the British magazine born in the Fifties.
In this issue (April 22, 1972) there's a short interview with Glen Sweeney and Paul Minns about the "Macbeth" recordings.
Nothing of particularly revelatory, but it's interesting for some little known details of that experience, most of all for the relation with filmmaker Roman Polanski.
Also, here there's the proof that Stanley Kubrick was interested into involving the band for the soundtrack of his masterpiece "Clockwork Orange", even if different than the usual Glen's memory.
In fact, Glen told: "I heard that Stanley Kubrick was thinking of doing the science fiction novel "Dune". It's a fantastic book, vaguely Eastern and right up our street. However, even if he does do it, we had a bit of a run-in with Stanley, so I don't know how we'd stand. He wanted us to do something for "Clockwork Orange" for free. We said no chance, but it turned out all he wanted to use was our second album "Air". It was to be played through the scene in which someone turns sadistic. It has been rumoured that several people have gone mad after hearing that album!"
After being published "Macbeth" soundtrack, Spanish label Munster Records (http://munster-records.com/) is going to release the vinyl edition of "Third Ear Band", the extraordinary album known by fans as "Air, Earth, Fire & Water" (in the Seventies) or "Elements" (later).
More details soon.
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Few days ago someone wrote on Facebook:
"If you want to hear the music of the spheres and listen to the vibrations of the planets, you must do it with the third ear or with silence. This is a "unique" piece... test pressing and cover proof and there is no other copy."
Right.
But also this one is a unique piece of that record: a non-plasticized cover proof with white inner sleeve made by MASO just before the official pressing...
MASO gave one copy each to the musicians and one to me. On the front cover of mine, the Thirds left their signs.
Lyn Dobson wrote: "Gracie per tutti Luca." Neil Black: "To Luca, the fifth Man."
Photographed by Annette Jarve, at the time with Lucia Baldini the main graphic at MASO, this is a controversial cover. Glen didn't like it, even if all of us was conscious Annette tried to get a different, not stereotypical picture of Stonehenge. Nevertheless, anyway, the final result was not too satisfying.
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Here's the cover of the last new issue of the Sixties/Psychedelic/underground British magazine Shindig!, this month featuring the Third Ear Band.
Rock journalist KRIS NEEDS dedicates a long piece to the band and hopefully to the book...
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