Curved Air – Phantasmagoria(1972 UK Prog Rock)Full Album

Curved Air biography Founded in London, England in 1970 - Disbanded in 1977 - One-Off reunion in 1990 - Reformed in 2008 CURVED AIR were formed in 1970 by Sonja Kristina (vocals), Darryl WAY (violin), Francis Monkman (keyboards), Florian Pilkington-Miksa (drums). The group decided the name using a shortened version of Terry Riley's composition "A rainbow in curved air". In their first album "Air Conditioning", a prominent role was given to vocals and violin; the album reached number 8 in the British charts. Then, in 1971, they released "Second Album", highly recommended example of CURVED AIR sound (a mix of acoustic folk and progressive rock). 1972 was the year of "Phantasmagoria", with Mike Wedgwood as bass guitarist. After a long tourney the band fell apart and Way formed the WOLF, while CURVED AIR showed a new line-up with Eddy Jobson as violinist, but they will never reach the performance level of the early two albums. In 1973, after "Air Cut" (with a sound hard oriented), Wedgwood joined with CARAVAN and Jobson with ROXY MUSIC. The four members of the original project made the first reunion in 1975 for a tourney (album "Curved Air Live"). Afterwards Kristina and Way carried on with drummer Stewart Copeland, bassist Tony Reeves, guitarist Mick Jacques and released "Midnight Wire". Their last album was "Airborne", published in 1976. The second reunion of the four former members was in 1990 for a concert in London (album "Alive 1990"). In the same year was released an album of previously unissued tracks recorded in 1973 ("Lovechild"). Finally, in 1995, an album of BBC sessions, called "Live at BBC". : : : Silvio Chiarioni, ITALY : : : Studio Album, released in 1972 Songs / Tracks Listing 1. Marie Antoinette (6:20) 2. Melinda (More or Less) (3:25) 3. Not Quite the Same (3:44) 4. Cheetah (3:33) 5. Ultra-Vivaldi (2:22) 6. Phantasmagoria (3:15) 7. Whose Shoulder Are You Looking Over Anyway? (3:24) 8. Over and Above (8:36) 9. Once a Ghost, Always a Ghost (4:25) Total Time 39:04 Line-up / Musicians - Sonja Kristina / vocals (1-3,6-9), acoustic guitar (2) - Francis Monkman / guitar (1,4), electric piano (1,8), harpsichord (2,4,9), piano (3,6), synth (3,8), organ (6,8), tubular bells & gong (8), percussion (9) - Darryl Way / violin (2-4,6,8), piano (1), synth (1,3), vocals, tubular bells (1), Mellotron (1) - Mike Wedgwood / bass, acoustic (6) & electric (9) guitars, vocals (1,6,8,9), percussion (9) - Florian Pilkington-Miksa / drums, percussion (9) With: - Annie Stewart / flute (2) - Crispian Steele-Perkins / trumpet (3,8) - Paul Cosh / trumpet (3,8) - Jim Watson / trumpet (3,8) - George Parnaby / trumpet (3) - Chris Pyne / trombone (3) - Alan Gout / trombone (3,8) - David Purser / trombone (3,8) - Steve Saunders / trombone (3,8) - Frank Ricotti / xylophone (8), vibes (8,9), congas (9) - Mal Linwood-Ross / percussion (9) - Colin Caldwell / percussion (9) - Jean Akers / percussion (9) - Doris the Cheetah / cheetah roar (4)