Absolute In different places, a mid-70s UK prog rock band who at quite a lot of issues featured each former King Red drummers Invoice Bruford and Andrew McCulloch, have in any case had their 2d album, Playground, launched on Jambco Information.
The band had been at the beginning signed to Warner Bros. via former Beatles publicist and supervisor of Apple Information, MD Derek Taylor, and recorded and launched their 1976 debut album, the instrumental In Seach of Historic Gods, which used to be impressed via the writings of Erich von Däniken, and featured Bruford on drums.
Musically the band had been the brainchild of keyboardist and flautist Paul Fishman and in addition featured Jon Astrop on bass and Phil Saatchi and guitar and blended innovative rock with a extra digital sound.
The similar core trio recorded a follow-up, Playground, which this time featured McCulloch on drums, and during which Fishman, Astrop and Saatchi all added vocals into the combination. On the other hand with punk rock within the ascendency, the file label misplaced all pastime and the album languished within the label’s vaults.
Rediscovered previous this yr, the album has been remastered and is now to be had via streaming and obtain services and products. You’ll pay attention to the album in complete with the embed participant under.
Fishman would pass directly to shape new wave/digital band Re-Flex, who had a success in 1983 with The Politics Of Dancing, and has endured to paintings within the box of digital tune. Astrop remains to be a musician, manufacturer and author who co-wrote Sam Fox’s 1986 hit Contact Me (I Need To Really feel Your Frame) and Saatchi, the more youthful brother of the well-known Charles and Maurice Saatchi used to be signed to A&M for a solo profession.
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