spacey synth excursion, from one of my favorite albums ever - Harmony of the Spheres by Neil Ardley
rest of the 1979 record is fonky as fock - and reminds me of some dream fusion of A Certain Ratio and Weather Report
can never decide if that one is my favorite, or this next one - which fuck me, they apparently released as a single!
here's the B-side which i don't think is on the album reissue
actually there's another track that jostles for favorite - tune #4 "Fair Mirage" - not on youtube except as part of the whole album
he also did a library music track called "Mirage"
shared KPM record of 1971 with this chap
Never quite got round to getting into A Kaleidoscope of Rainbows, despite its wonderful title, or indeed A Symphony of Amaranths - i should remedy that
Neil Ardley - proper gent
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This was included in Matthew Ingram's Kindle book 100 Lost Rock Albums from the 70s, and his words on it were so effusive I bought it. Didn't regret it, the music sweeps you along, v optimistic. It wasn't "hip" at the time, one suspects, as it wasn't disco or post Punk , and it was on Decca, a dying brand name. I thought I saw somewhere that by the late 70s Decca let itself be run by Jonathan King for a while. Maybe we have him to thank for it being released...🤔
it's possible - one of those bizarre convergences of the British Seventies that seem unlikely but could easily have happened
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