Third Ear Band "Alchemy" lp original EMI Harvest Import 1969
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NM disk ("Made in Gr. Britain") | Flawless sturdy glossy gatefold cover, with no blemishes (not even bottom shelf wear). If any cover deserved a NM- this is it (guess I don't believe in that designation for covers).
[all lps are original and from my personal collection. Most have not been played since the first month of buying them. Very little wear to the lp & cover, with most still having the shrink wrap still on. All disks will be in a clear plastic sleeve and mailed in a professional, cardboard mailer with additional cardboard if needed. Just let me know if you'd like the disk outside the cover. If curious about any other lps let me know your wants.]
Third Ear Band were a British musical group formed in the London alternative and free-music scene of the mid-1960s. (Wikipedia)
No band of the 1960s and 1970s achieved the degree of ethnic fusion that the Third Ear Band achieved on Alchemy (1969), one of the albums that invented world-music". An acoustic chamber ensemble of (essentially) tablas, oboe, viola and cello performed Indian, medieval, native American, gypsy, middle-eastern, minimalist, jazz, classical and folk music, all within the same song. The four suites on their second album, Third Ear Band (1970), pushed the idea even further: the ethnic sources are not recognizable anymore, and the music flows like a stream of consciousness, a spiritual experience, a daydream. De-contextualized, the "third ear" music is closer to Buddhism meditation than to western composition. The band was equally successful on Macbeth (1972), that added electric and electronic sounds to their ethnic stew. (Scaruffi)
Their music is a unique combination of wind instruments which the group (led by drummer Terry Sweeney) called Electric Acid Raga.
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