Showing posts with label Mosaics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mosaics. Show all posts

September 27, 2021

Other two good reviews about "MOSAICS".

 

Two new reviews about TEB's box "Mosaics" are available on the Web: one is from the Italian magazine  INDIEeye  at https://www.indie-eye.it/recensore/coverstory/third-ear-band-mosaics-the-albums-1969-1979-la-recensione-e-lunboxing-del-cofanetto-cherry-red.htm with this pretty promo video:

the other one is from the English Velvet Thunder Webzine at https://www.velvetthunder.co.uk/third-ear-band-mosaics-the-albums-1969-1972-esoteric-cherry-red/ where Steve Pilkington writes with a funny register things like this: 

"The origins of what would become the Third Ear Band began in 1966, with an outfit going by the bizarre yet tremendous name of The Giant Sun Trolley. Their aim was, effectively, to produce sounds that had never been heard before, at least under the guise of ‘music’. An electric and eclectic ensemble, to give you an idea of what this lot sprang from, one of their compositions was called Eternity In D, a piece designed exclusively to allow the band to play the same note for as long as possible. This was often used as a means to clear a venue of stragglers in the early hours, as The Trolley were sent on to play until the place was empty and the remaining audience had fled. This often took very little time. However, there were exceptions, as the enormously entertaining booklet with this collection informs us that one night they went on at 3am, and proceeded to play two notes until seven. That’s four hours of two notes. However, by 7am on this occasion a number of audience members were still there. Asleep. They would periodically wake up, hear the same two notes, and drift off again. That’s a pretty unsuccessful way to clear a club, but not unrelated to what would become the Third Ear Band." 


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September 06, 2021

To err is human, but to persevere diabolical...

About the new Esoteric Recordings/Cherry Red release "Mosaics", nothing can be said about the wonderful 3CDs clamshell box packaging (with the brilliant idea of a box containing the three original Harvest albums reproduced in their splendid replica sleeves)... maybe much about the quality of my writing (a cut & paste taken from the previous enhanced CD booklets) but... hold on...

what about the big mistake to invert again the titles of "Fire" and "Water" on the second album track-list?

I warned Mark Powell with a mail in May to remember him to correct that oversight on the 3CDs enhanced edition of "Third Ear Band", released in 2018...

Dammit! Another missed opportunity to do a perfect  (at least philologically) job!

 

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August 28, 2021

Dave Thompson's review of "Mosaics" on "Goldmine".

 

Contributing editor at "Goldmine" and "Spin Cycle" vinyl column, a much published author (he co-wrote recent (and upcoming) autobiographies by Eddie and Brian Holland, New York Doll Sylvain Sylvain and Walter Lure of Johnny Thunder’s Heartbreaker), DAVE THOMPSON writes this good review on "GOLDMINE - The Music Collector's Magazine" web site.

 
"If you don’t know the Third Ear Band, stop reading and look them up on Youtube. We’ll see you back here in about thirty minutes.If, on the other hand, you do know their music… and have been waiting for a CD package that comes close to the quality of your original vinyl… this is what you’ve been looking for.

Effectively, Mosaics is a slimmed down version of the deluxe editions that appeared a few years back; it contains just the three basic albums (1969’s Alchemy, 1970’s Third Ear Band and 1972’s Music from MacBeth), without any of the bonus material, BBC sessions and out-takes, that accompanied them the last time around.

It’s a fascinating journey regardless; the first two albums in particular hang so far outside anything remotely approaching even the underground mainstream of the era that the most common description for them is “challenging.”

Nevertheless, the band’s haunting oboe/cello/violin/hand drum-led improv (more-or-less) transports you to places best described as the ultimate destination for everything that was happening musically at the end of the sixties. Flavoured with a vision that refuses point-blank to sit comfortably among your expectations."
 
(original page here)

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August 08, 2021

3CDs "Mosaics" out now: a first review brings the Thirds back into the spotlight.

"Mosaics", the Esoteric Recordings/Cherry Red 3CDs box with all the original Harvest TEB records, is now available. For £20.99, you can get a copy from the label's Web site at https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/third-ear-band-mosaics-the-albums-1969-1972-3cd-clamshell-box-set/

A first long review by John Barlass has been published HERE.

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June 01, 2021

Third Ear Band Harvest's three albums in a boxset out soon.


Third Ear Band: Mosaics – The Albums 1969-1972, 3CD Clamshell Box Set
Third Ear Band

£20.99

Released July 30, 2021.

• NEW RE-MASTERED 3CD CLAMSHELL BOXED SET OF THE CLASSIC ALBUMS BY THIRD EAR BAND RELEASED BETWEEN 1969 & 1972
• FEATURES THE ALBUMS “ALCHEMY”, “THIRD EAR BAND” & “MUSIC FROM MACBETH” IN REPLICA SLEEVES
• WITH ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET & ESSAY 

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Asking Mark Powell (Cherry Red Records-Esoteric Recordings) about this new release, he says that "the Third Ear Band boxed set is simply a gathering of the three Harvest albums (with no bonus tracks) in a clamshell box. It is to appeal to the more casual fan, it is not a deluxe boxed set. The releases aimed at the hard core aficionado are still the three expanded individual albums we issued a few years back. They will be issued in mini replica LP sleeves, but we aren't doing an expanded book etc.".

More detailed infos and pre-order at the Esoteric Recordings page: https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/third-ear-band-mosaics-the-albums-1969-1972-3cd-clamshell-box-set/ 

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