Rare Bird - Rare Bird (1969)

Year: 1969 (CD 2007)
Label: Esoteric Recordings (UK), ECLEC 2001
Style: Art Rock, Progressive Rock
Country: England
Time: 44:42
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 274 Mb

Rare Bird were an English progressive rock band, formed in 1969. They released five studio albums between 1969 and 1974. In the UK, the single "Sympathy" reached number 27 in February 1970, selling an estimated one million globally. The band was notable for its organ-driven sound, utilising two keyboardists and no guitar in its original line-up.
In August 1968, organist Graham Field formed a group called Lunch and banded together with keyboardist David Kaffinetti. The group was short-lived and the two members began looking for a rhythm section for a new project.
By late 1969, they had found singer and bassist Steve Gould and drummer Mark Ashton. Former members of the pop-psych band Fruit Machine Gould and Chris Randall had originally joined as guitarist and bassist respectively, but Field and Kaffinetti envisioned a band without guitar so they asked Randall to leave and convinced Gould to take up bass and vocals. Before joining the band, Randall and Gould had written a song called "To the Memory of Two Brave Dogs" which would be included as the opening track to their debut album under the name "Iceberg", for which Randall would receive no credit.
Now that the band had established a stable line-up, they recorded a demo which attracted the attention of Tony Stratton Smith. As the band still had no name, Ashton and Smith came up with Rare Bird. Shortly after, Rare Bird became one of the first bands signed to Charisma Records, along with Van der Graaf Generator and the Nice.
Within a matter of weeks, the band had begun recording their eponymous debut album, Rare Bird, released in November 1969. According to Ashton, the album was recorded over the course of just a few days at Trident Studios, using a Hammond B3 organ, an electric piano, a Gibson bass and a Ludwig drum kit. From Rare Bird, the single "Sympathy" was released, which reached No. 1 in Italy and France, and is estimated to have sold 500,000 copies in France and between one and three million globally. It became their only UK hit single, reaching No.27 and staying on the chart for 8 weeks.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Bird)

01. Iceberg (06:56)
02. Times (03:24)
03. You Went Away (04:39)
04. Melanie (03:28)
05. Beautiful Scarlet (05:43)
06. Sympathy (02:44)
07. Natures Fruit (02:36)
08. Bird On A Wing (04:17)
09. God Of War (05:30)
10. Devil's High Concern (02:47)
11. Sympathy (02:34)

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