Label: East Side Digital (US), ESD 80402/412
Style: Progressive rock, Canterbury scene
Country: Canterbury, England
Time: 79:02, 79:25
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 526, 526 Mb
National
Health were an English progressive rock band associated with the
Canterbury scene. Founded in 1975, the band featured members of
keyboardist Dave Stewart's band Hatfield and the North and Alan Gowen's
band Gilgamesh, including guitarists Phil Miller and Phil Lee and
bassist Mont Campbell as original members. The band was named after
Stewart's National Health spectacles. Bill Bruford (previously of Yes
and King Crimson) was the initial drummer, but was soon replaced by Pip
Pyle. Campbell was replaced by Neil Murray and then John Greaves. Alan
Gowen left the group before its first album (although he appeared on it
as a guest musician), but returned for their final tours, replacing Dave
Stewart, who resigned after their second album. Amanda Parsons sang
with the group in its original lineup but also appeared on the first
album only as a guest; the group never had another full-time vocalist,
although Richard Sinclair appeared a few times as a guest vocalist, and
Greaves sang on one track of the second album and occasionally in
concerts. Guitarist Phil Miller was National Health's only constant
member.
They toured extensively and released their first album,
National Health, in 1978. Although it was created during the rise of
punk rock, the album is characterized by lengthy, mostly instrumental
compositions. National Health continued performing live until winter
1980, but disbanded without recording another album.
After the May
1981 death of Gowen, the Queues lineup of Stewart, Miller, Greaves and
Pyle reunited to record the album D.S. Al Coda, a set of compositions by
Gowen, most previously unrecorded. The original albums and additional
archival material have subsequently been released on CD.
The intro of National Health's "Binoculars" was used as a sample on American rock band Deftones' "Black Moon".
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Health)
01. Paracelsus (01:45)
02. Tenemos Roads (14:34)
03. Brujo (10:18)
04. Borogoves (Excerpt From Part Two) (04:12)
05. Borogoves (Part One) (06:35)
06. Elephants (14:31)
07. The Bryden 2-Step (For Amphibians), Part 1 (08:54)
08. The Collapso (06:18)
09. Squarer for Maud (11:50)
01. Dreams Wide Awake (08:50)
02. Binoculars (11:45)
03. Phlakaton (00:08)
04. The Bryden 2-Step (For Amphibians), Part 2 (05:33)
05. Apocalypso (06:50)
06. Portrait of a Shrinking Man (05:35)
07. T.N.T.F.X. (03:12)
08. Black Hat (04:52)
09. I Feel a Night Coming On (06:37)
10. Arriving Twice (02:22)
11. Shining Water (08:53)
12. Tales of a Damson Knight (01:56)
13. Flanagan’s People (05:20)
14. Toad of Toad Hall (07:26)
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