New TEB's triple album is scheduled for November 23th, 2018.
"A NEWLY RE-MASTERED 3 DISC EXPANDED EDITION OF THE 1970 ALBUM
FEATURING 11 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACKS DRAWN FROM AN UNRELEASED ALBUM AND THE ENTIRE RARE “ABELARD & HELOISE” SOUNDTRACK
Esoteric Recordings is pleased to announce the expanded and
re-mastered release of the self- titled 1970 album by THIRD EAR BAND.
Formed in 1968 around a nucleus of GLEN SWEENEY (percussion), PAUL MINNS
(Oboe), RICHARD COFF (Violin, Viola) and URSULA SMITH (Cello), the
Third Ear Band were unique in their exploration of exotic baroque music
fused with experimental rock. Signing to Blackhill Enterprises in 1969,
the quartet opened for many of the legendary Hyde Park free concerts by
Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones and Blind Faith. One of the early
signings to EMI’s progressive imprint, Harvest, their debut album,
“Alchemy” was released in June 1969.
This, the band’s second album, was issued in June 1970 and gained
good reviews in the underground music press. Always fluid with their
line-ups, Ursula Smith and Richard Coff departed the band in September
1970, some weeks after recording a soundtrack to a German television
film, “Abelard and Heloise”, to be replaced by Ben Cartland and Paul
Buckmaster. At this point the Third Ear Band began to explore a more
experimental rock direction, stating that they would go “electric” for
their next album, tentatively entitled “The Dragon Awakes”. Despite an
album’s worth of studio sessions being recorded at Abbey Road studios in
late 1970 and the Spring of 1971, the project was eventually shelved.
This 3 disc digipack edition of THIRD EAR BAND features eleven
previously unreleased tracks; the entire “Dragon Awakes” sessions, all
previously unreleased, along with alternate session takes, two BBC John
Peel sessions from 1970 and 1971 and a newly re-mastered version of the
“Abelard and Heloise” soundtrack produced from recently discovered first
generation master tapes. The set also includes a booklet with new essay
by Third Ear Band Ghettoraga official archivist and biographer Luca Ferrari."
no©2018 Luca Chino Ferrari (unless you intend to make a profit. In which case, ask first)
