NATIONAL HEALTH Same LP AFFINITY 1978 UK orig HATFIELD & THE NORTH-HENRY COW
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NATIONAL HEALTHDAVE STEWART, PHIL MILLER, NEIL MURRAY, PIP PYLE
plus JIMMY HASTINGS, ALAN GOWEN, AMANDA PARSONS, JOHYN MITCHELL
National Health were one of those rare English progressive bands whose classic mid-'70s
output still sounds fresh today. Their sound prospered on imaginative linear musicality,
often in a jazzy format that emphasized extended instrumental solos.
Arising during a challenging time when progressive rock was being overtaken
by a tidal wave of punk, National Health featured members of other Canterbury
and post-Canterbury bands Hatfield and the North (a band considered a Canterbury
supergroup in itself), Gilgamesh, and Henry Cow
"NATIONAL HEALTH"
Produced by NATIONAL HEALTH
Recorded at The Point, Victoria, London 1977 on the Mobile Mobile
Intro to 'Elephants' recorded live at the M.L.T.S., Tiel, Holland 14/2/77
1978 LP AFFINITY RECORDS AFF6 Stereo
MADE IN ENGLAND ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING
Barcode and Other Identifiers
LABEL: AFFINITY - LILAC/GREY LABEL & GREEN LOGO - BLACK TEXT
Catalog on cover: (spine only) AFF6
Catalog on labels: AFF 6 (AFF 6 A / AFF 6 B)
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): AFF 6 A3
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): AFF 6 B3
On labels: ?1978 Healthy Music
Manufactured and distributed by Pye Records (Sales) Ltd
Produced by National Health
© 1977 Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd
Affinity-A Division Of Charly Music Ltd
On Back Sleeve: Sleeve printed and made in England by Gothic Print Finishers Ltd., London SE9 2EQ.
A Healthy Music production
from my records collection
tracklisting
Side A: TENEMOS ROADS - BRUJO
Side B: BOROGOVES - ELEPHANTS
grading
RECORD EX (please, read above description)
SLEEVE EX (please, see pictures and read above description)
National Health's four lengthy multifaceted suites present the Hatfield-esque instrumental
Canterbury sound at its most accomplished. Gowen, with writing credits for "Brujo" and "Elephants,"
came to be known for a jazzy, improvisational sensibility in contrast to the more thoroughly
scored compositional approach of Stewart, who penned "Tenemos Roads" and "Borogoves,"
but National Health presents a perfect meld of their styles, utterly without tension between them.
There are vamps over which Stewart, Gowen, or Miller solo (great fuzz organ from Stewart;
fluid Moog from Gowen; inimitable phrasing and tone from Miller), but most notable
is the music's organic flow through its twists and turns of melody, harmonics, rhythm
(Pyle again proving both his dynamism and sensitivity), texture, and timbre.
Music this complex and densely varied, particularly
in the rock realm, seldom feels as light and breezy...(AllMusic)
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