CURVED AIR

I have one recopilation album. The most remarkable song on it is Vivaldi, beautifully played by Eddie Jobson. I don't listen much at the rest of it, so I can't tell.

Thanks Easy Livin,

Just found them in the archives, and listened to the download

Though they were a bit before my time, I think that Sonja was the sexiest singer in all of the Prog bands, espeically when you consider that all the others were men.

 

I've got Curved Air live,Francis Monkman and Darryl Way are superb! Interestingly Curved Air were one of the few bands to get an actual prog track high in the British singles charts,'Back Street Luv',which reached about No4 in 1971 I think.

mirco wrote: I have one recopilation album. The most remarkable song on it is Vivaldi, beautifully played by Eddie Jobson. I don't listen much at the rest of it, so I can't tell.

I made a mistake: although Jobson joins CA at some point, te song Vivaldi isn't played by him 'couse it was recorded on the first album. The song is great, anyway.

''Air conditioning''album.

i have air cut: powerful sound, razor guitars, beautiful piano and violin  played by......

EDWIN JOBSON

Try their CD, Live for a very good cross section of their music played by the original line-up:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000000136/qid=1109 759139/sr=1-14/ref=sr_1_2_14/026-4013407-5278830

I heard the album version of It Happened Tonight on a jukebox in the ealry 80's (the jukebox played 45rpm singles in those day), which eventually inspired me to go find this CD (Decca Deram released back in the late 80's - but it seems Repertoise now distribute).

Darryl Way formed Wolf (sample track on  Legend Of A Mind sampler issued by Decca 3 years ago). Involved with a electric violin concerto and Julian Lloyd-Webber in the 80's

Francis Monkman (who does a fabulous 30 sec segment from A Rainbow In Curved Air in the tune Propositions on Live), moved to Sky lead by classical guitarist John Williams, via a brief stop-off with Phil Manzanera's 801  (you must check out 801 Live).

Eddie Jobson forced CA to hear him do an audition at  the infamous Redcar Bowl (near Middlesbrough) when Way left, and they hired him on the spot - so the legend goes.

Stewart Copeland played drums in the last edition of CA and moved on to Police. [Off at a tangent:  Andy Summers had played with Soft Machine on one of those Hendrix package tours of the USA. Sting, heavily influenced by Jack Bruce, had been playing jazz rock in Newcastle before moving south and eventually forming Police.]

And Sonja is still going.................

 

I was lucky enough to catch a Curved Air reunion show in London back in 1990 (or thereabouts), with Ozrics offshoot Noden's Ictus as support. It was a fantastic show - I've always liked their first three albums, though their later work lost the edge a bit - I mostly preferred Daryl Way's contributions. Wolf are worth checking out, not premier league prog but good first division material, particularly their instrumentals.

Curved Air's Second LP is their best in my opinion - "Piece of Mind" alone stands up with anything from the 'accepted' greats.

Not sure if Saturnalia's Magical Love LP picture disc preceeds Curved Air's First( both 71' I think) BUT its a moot point as picture disc's although certainly not numerous have been going since the mid-30s!!!

In fact, I recall Record Collector looking into this very issue a while back and I think the VERY first Picture Disc was a collection of speeches from.....no lessa folk that ADOLF HITLER himself - dated from the late thirties I think. It wasn't in a krautrock stylee I bet!!!

Dick Heath - can you tell us anymore on this issue????? What was the first 'Rock' Piccy Disc????

Any Idea????

Dick Heath wrote: I think CA only had their's at the centre of the LP, not into the microgrooves.

Dick,

Curved Air's definately covered the entire record, not just the centre portion. The later standard black versions of the LP had actual size (12") pictures of the front and back of the LP on the cardboard sleeve. The printing on the record made spotting the track bands difficult, especially on side two which was predominantly white. I'm not sure how the pictures were applied to the vinyl, but after repeated playing they started to wear off!