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It Happened Today 4:57 02. Stretch 4:05 03. Screw 4:03 04. Blind Man 3:35 05. Vivaldi 7:32 06. Hide And Seek 6:19 07. Propositions 3:08 08. Rob One 3:26 09. Situations 6:19 10. Vivaldi With Cannons 1:43 11. Thinking Of You (Recorded And Mixed At Island Studios 3:06 London In August 1970) (Bonus Track) CD 2/2 01. It Happened Today (Single Version) (A & B Side Of Single 3:50 Recorded In January 1971) 02. What Happens When You Blow Yourself Up (A & B Side Of 3:35 Single Recorded In January 1971) 03. It Happened Today (Take 9) (Recorded At Island Studios 4:17 London In September 1970) 04. Rob One (Take 2) (Recorded At Island Studios London In 3:21 September 1970) 05. Propositions (BBC Radio One John Peel Session Recorded 5:31 10th November 1970) 06. Vivaldi (BBC Radio One John Peel Session Recorded 10th 6:31 November 1970) 07. It Happened Today (BBC Radio One John Peel Session 4:44 Recorded 10th November 1970) 08. Young Mother In Style (BBC Radio One John Peel Session 4:06 Recorded 5th January 1971) 09. Situations (BBC Radio One John Peel Session Recorded 5th 4:58 January 1971) 10. Strech (BBC Radio One John Peel Session Recorded 27th 4:38 January 1971) ┌────────┐ ────┤ Notes ├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── └────────┘ One of the most dramatically accomplished of all the bands lumped into Britain's late-60's prog explosion, Curved Air was formed in early 1970 by violinist Darryl Way, a graduate of the Royal College of Music, and two former members of Sisyphus, keyboard player Francis Monkman and drummer Florian Pilkington-Miksa. Adding bassist Robert Martin, the band named itself from avant-garde composer Terry Riley's A Rainbow in Curved Air, a touchstone that would inform much of their early work. In its initial vinyl form, Curved Air's debut album is one of the prog rock movement's most prized artifacts - not for the music (for that, it goes without saying, is flawless), but for the picture-disc format which had never previously graced a 12-inch rock record. Curved Air were an unwieldy beast at the best of times, an uneasy liaison between Sonja Kristina's rampant rock sensibilities and her bandmates' undisguised virtuosity. Keyboard player Francis Monkman, in particular, led the group into some genuinely uncharted territory - it was he who named the group after a Terry Riley composition. He who consumed side two of each album for a series of wild experiments, most of which incorporate acoustic folk, free form jazz, and a hefty dose of Vivaldi. Not that this was a bad thing. Indeed, "Air Conditioning" rates among the great debut albums of 1970s rock, a hybrid whose breathless audacity stands in starkly good-natured contrast to the po-faced noodlings of the genre's other leading progenitors. Even in full, fanciful flight (the instrumental 'Rob One' or the sawing discordant 'Vivaldi'), you can hear the band enjoying themselves, as Darryl Way's violin soars to pitches unknown to rocking man, the immortally named Florian Pilkington-Miksa conjures brand new rhythms from his percussive arsenal and Monkman. Well, Monkman is as Monkman does, but even when you know what's going to happen next, a frill or a flourish still leaps out to surprise you. Kristina, meanwhile, possesses one of the most distinctive voices of the age, a virtue which is apparent from the moment she enters on the opening "It Happens Today". Hints of Grace Slick enter her delivery during the Airplane-like "Stretch", but it's a fleeting comparison. By the time you hit "Propositions", all echoed riffs and space age synth, Curved Air don't sound like anything else on earth. You do, however, notice how many subsequent bands sound a lot like them. Esoteric Recordings is proud to announce the release of a new expanded and remastered 2CD edition of Curved Air's classic 1970 album "Air Conditioning". With 11 bonus tracks (3 previously unreleased) drawn from studio out-takes & BBC sessions. Remastered from the original master tapes by Francis Monkman, this new edition also includes an illustrated booklet with a new essay by Malcolm Dome featuring an exclusive interviews with band members. ┌────────┐ ────┤ Salute ├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── └────────┘ BERC r35 GCP FWYH NuHS GRAVEWISH JCE KLV