Third Ear Band
Alchemy
LP: Harvest / E.M.I Records
SHVL 756
Made and Printed in Great Britain
GLEN SWEENEY
tabla, hand drums, wind chimes.
PAUL MINNS
oboe, recorder.
RICHARD COFF
violin, viola.
MEL DAVIS
cello, slide pipes
PLUS
On Area Three
JOHN PEEL
jaws harp.
PLUS
On Lark Rise
DAVE TOMLIN
violin.
SIDE ONE
MOSAIC
GHETTO RAGA
DRUID ONE
STONE CIRCLE
SIDE TWO
EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD
AREA THREE
DRAGON LINES
LARK RISE
Cover design and artwork
by Dave Loxley.
Photography
by Ray Stevenson.
All songs by Glen, Richard, Paul, except Lark Rise by Dave Tomlin. Published by Arf Arf Music.
Produced by: Peter Jenner of Blackhill Enterprises.
Engineers: Ken Scott, Peter Mew.
Recorded at: E.M.I. Studios, St. Johns Wood, London.
The Raga is for Peter, Sumi, John, Dave, Steve, all the cats in the Grove and elsewhere who gave us the energy and created the Karma that put it all together.
Third Ear Band
Third Ear Band music is a reflection of the universe as magic play illusion simply because it could not possibly be anything else. Words cannot describe this ecstatic dance of sound, or explain the alchemical repetition seeking and sometimes finding archetypal forms, elements, and rhythms. Contradictions are their energy force, dualities are discarded in favour of the Tao, each piece is as alike or unalike as trees, grass or crickets. This is natural, magical, alchemical music that doesn't preach but just urges you to take your own trip. If you can make it into the music you're adrift in fantastic Bosch-like landscapes, a strange acoustical perfume fills the mind, on rare occasions a vast door seems to open, band and audience appear to float in a new dimension, transcending time and space where nothing exists except this very strange and beautiful music.
Note this is just how one person felt on hearing the group live, because ultimately sound, like the wind does not exist in a concrete form, it is magic, alchemy, and anyway someone said they would like something about the group on this L.P.
Glen.
◆本LPについて◆
E式見開きジャケット（ビニールコーティング）。ジャケ絵（ミハエル・マイヤー『逃げ去るアタランタ』より）の地の部分は金で印刷されています。
これは1980年代に中古レコード店で購入しました。1970年代半ば頃の再プレス盤だと思います。
Third Ear Band – Alchemy (Vinyl) - Discogs
★★★★★
Egyptian Book of the Dead
