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Curved Air

" Phantasmagoria "

album 1972

( 3^rd studio album )

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Το εξώφυλλο του δίσκου (εμπροσθότυπος)

 

 

 

 

 

Το οπισθόφυλλο του δίσκου (οπισθότυπος)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Side A:

/ 1. - Marie Antoinette

/ 2. - Melinda (More or Less)

/ 3. - Not Quite the Same

/ 4. - Cheetah

/ 5. - Ultra-Vivaldi

 

 

Side B:

/ 1. - Phantasmagoria

/ 2. - Whose Shoulder Are You Looking Over Anyway?

/ 3. - Over and Above

/ 4. - Once a Ghost, Always a Ghost

 

 

 

Το βινύλιο Side 2

 

 

 

 

 

Τα μέλη των Curved Air:

/ - Sonja Kristina: lead vocals, acoustic guitar

/ - Darryl Way: violin, Keyboards,

/ - Francis Monkman: keyboards, electric guitar

/ - Mike Wedgewood: bass, backing vocals

/ - Florian Pilkington-Miksa: drums

 

 

extra personnel:

/ - Annie Stewart: flute

/ - Crispian Steele-Perkins: trumpet

/ - Paul Cosh: trumpet

/ - James Watson: trumpet

/ - George Parnaby: trumpet

/ - Chris Pyne: trombone

/ - Alan Gout: trombone

/ - David Purser: trombone

/ - Steve Saunders: trombone

/ - Frank Ricotti: xylophone, vibes

/ - Mal Linwood-Ross: percussion

/ - Colin Caldwell: percussion

/ - Jean Akers: percussion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Melinda (More or Less)

Lovely lady failing laughing down the glory of the rainbow

Lovely lady reaching crying for the comfort of the day-glow

Melinda more or less, Melinda more or less,

Melinda more or less in dreams.  

 

 

 

Phantasmagoria

I bet you sometimes wonder

What is standing right behind you

Keep looking over your shoulder to see if it’s there

 

 

 

 

μουσική πρόταση: Άγγελος Κωτσάκης

      

 

δισκοκριτική στο Sounds 15 Απριλίου 1972.

 

Sounds, April 15, 1972, [section: Album Reviews], p. 29.

 

 

CURVED AIR:

"PHANTASMAGORIA"

(WARNER BROTHERS K46158)

 

   Certainly the first side is surprisingly gentle, with a heavy emphasis on both melodic content and lyrics, and I personally found it much easier to listen to than the second. 

   It opens with "Marie Antoinette", a very delicate number with Sonja sounding micely ethereal and soft. The atmosphere continues right through "Melinda", "Not Quite The Same" and "Cheetah", until it reaches "Ultra Vivaldi" – an instrumental based very much on that composer's structure as indeed the title would suggest.

   The second side – apart from the rather haunting broken up patterns of "Phantasmagoria" which was the B side of the single is more attacking and experimental, running through with only one track break and with Sonja's voice used more as an extra instrument than pure vocal.

   Hence I found it more indigestible, though no doubt the cleverer amonst us will enjoy it much more simply because of all the intricate work going on.

   On reflection I think the split in atmosphere is a direct result of a split in the album's composition – side one being devoted to the writing of Darryl Way, side two to the more explosive Francis Monkman.

 - P.V.  (Penny Valentine)

Sounds, April 15, 1972, p. 29.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Αφίσσα γνωστοποίησης κυκλοφορίας του album “Phantasmagoria” των Curved Air.

Sounds, April 15, 1972.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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