The seventies opened with a whole world of underground and/or progressive rock as most of these bands were known to me as I became interested in music in the early seventies. Previously Cherry Red Records had released Banquet covering the underground scene in 1969. Additionally they released New Moons In The Sky: The British Progressive Pop Sounds of 1970 plus two subsequent compilations covering 1971 and 1972 respectively.
This compilation features bands which have appeared in both series such as Family, Hawkwind and Curved Air amongst others. Like all the releases in these series their are bands that I was familiar with, vaguely heard of or had not heard of at all. Certainly unless one has a vast collection of early seventies albums most of these tracks will not be in your collection. In this 4 CD set there are just two tracks I already had out of a total of 57.
CD 1 includes tracks from Barclay James Harvest, Fleetwood Mac, Van De Graaf Generator, T2 and more. I have chose this number, The Song Of McGuillicudie The Pusillanimous from Egg
CD 2 Introduces us to Kevin Ayres, Traffic, Rare Bird,Stray, Family and others. From this I have selected Funny Ways from Gentle Giant.
CD3 brings us Quatermass, East Of Eden, Hawkwind, Cressida Affinity and others. From this I have selected Things May Come, Things May Go, But The Art School Goes On by Pete Brown and Piblokto
Finally on CD 4 we get Michael Chapman, Curved Air, Yes and more though the choice to end this post is Heaven from Gracious.
Available from: www.cherryred.co.uk
The previous compilation in this series is still available:
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