the Third Ear Band

[eternal_spirit]

Third Ear Band - Stone Circle [Alchemy] 1969 - YouTube

Stone Circle [Alchemy] 1969



Mosaic by the Third Ear Band - YouTube

[eternal_spirit]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWNKH7B5mSs
Stone Circle [Alchemy] 1969



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NP0Y6rQBIk

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ERulWFHpgjY/Rs1u__CVmAI/AAAAAAAAADQ/d2B5f7Uwoz0/s320/alchemy.gif


Glen Sweeney - percussions
Paul Minns - oboe
Richard Coff - violin, viola
Mel Davis - cello, slide pipes
DJ John Peel - jaws harp
Dave Tomlin - violin

Started in 1968 by percussionist Glen Sweeney and reedist Paul Minns, Third Ear Band was formed from the ashes of a previous Sweeney project, the psych band Hydrogen Juke Box. While generally overlooked in the history of British and improvised music, Third Ear Band developed a distinctive and aesthetically important sound -- equal parts Indian, psychedelic, and minimalist -- dubbed "electric-acid-raga" by Sweeney. Alchemy, their first release, is a wonderful record. With shorter tracks than found on later albums, Third Ear Band here makes excursions into improvised chamber music. In the opener, "Mosaic," which is at seven minutes one of the longest cuts, guitar meets recorder and violin in a disharmonic free jazz summit that fades away before building into a trancy mini-crescendo. On "Stone Circle," recorder lines interweave over an unadorned drum's repetitive rhythm. At times the recorder lines are so fluid and unnatural they sound like they're being played backwards -- which indeed they just might be. Generally the remainder of the tracks run the course between half-structured improv and droning chaos. Comparisons could be drawn to Soft Machine or the Dream Syndicate, but neither quite has the sense of "collective first" nor the repetitive insistence of Third Ear Band. The songs, to quote Sweeney again, are "alike or unlike as trees." For those even vaguely interested in the history of innovative music, Alchemy is worth hunting down.

[eternal_spirit]

Third Ear Band - Fire - YouTube

Third Ear Band - Fire

[informationtransit]

Fully deserving of it's own thread!!!

I have started looking back at this... different to third eye but still grand!!!
Very alchemical... watch the Belgian performance....

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4781222750582852771#

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[eternal_spirit]

Thanks for the vids, never seen that before - some good stuff. Great musicianship and plenty of variety (including all the different instruments they keep picking up lol) :D

[guuna]

was that them that did the soundtrack for Macbeth(1971) by Roman Polanski?

[eternal_spirit]

was that them that did the soundtrack for Macbeth(1971) by Roman Polanski?
Don't know. There's only a couple of songs (instrumental ones I posted that I like, although not heard that much by them tbh.) didn't like the ones with singing though lol.
Third Ear Band - Music From Macbeth - Fleance - YouTube



Third Ear Band - Music From Macbeth - Fleance