Second Album
by Curved Air
- Type: Album
- Released: 3 September 1971
- Label: Warner Bros.
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 1:01:19
- Community rating: 3.9/5 from 5 ratings
Artists on this release: Tori Amos
Album Notes & Community Reviews
The quintet鈥檚 sophomore effort builds upon the violin-driven, symphonic-prog template of their debut, incorporating even more complex rhythmic shifts and experimental textures. Centered once again on the theatrical charisma of Sonja Kristina and the band's distinctive chamber-rock instrumentation, the record balances light pop sensibilities with epic progressive ambition. It stands as a sophisticated, essential document of early 70s British progressive experimentation.
Genres
Descriptors: progressive, uncommon-time-signatures, complex, live, strings
Tracklist
- No-Guitar Blues - Live (3:33)
- Everdance / Cheetah / Vivaldi - Live (7:40)
- Phantasmagoria - Live (3:34)
- Melinda (More or Less) - Live (3:11)
- Over and Above - Live (11:32)
- The Germersheim Jam / Vivaldi - Live (31:47)
Credits
- Curved Air - primary artist, producer [produced by]
- Ian Eyre - bass guitar, written-by
- John Kosh - design
- Florian Pilkington-Miksa - drums
- Colin Caldwell - engineer [engineered by], producer [produced by]
- Francis Monkman - guitar, keyboards, synthesizer [vcs3 synthesizer], written-by
- Peter Howe - photography by
- Sonja Kristina - vocals, written-by
- Darryl Way - vocals, electric violin, written-by, piano