Description
Air Conditioning rates among the great debut albums of 1970s rock, a hybrid whose breathless audacity stands in starkly good-natured contrast to the po-faced noodlings of the genre's other leading progenitors. Even in full, fanciful flight (the instrumental "Rob One" or the sawing discordant "Vivaldi"), you can hear the band enjoying themselves, as Darryl Way's violin soars to pitches unknown to rocking man, the immortally named Florian Pilkington-Miksa conjures brand new rhythms from his percussive arsenal and Monkman. Well, Monkman is as Monkman does, but even when you know what's going to happen next, a frill or a flourish still leaps out to surprise you. Kristina, meanwhile, possesses one of the most distinctive voices of the age, a virtue which is apparent from the moment she enters on the opening "It Happens Today." Hints of Grace Slick enter her delivery during the Airplane-like "Stretch," but it's a fleeting comparison. By the time you hit "Propositions," all echoed riffs and space age synth, Curved Air don't sound like anything else on earth. You do, however, notice how many subsequent bands sound a lot like them.
Product Details
- Artist
- Curved Air
- Number of Discs
- 1
- Recording Environment
- Studio
- Label / Studio
- COLLECTORS CHOICE MUSIC
- Media Content Format
- Album
- Original year of release
- 1970
- Media Format
- Audio CD
- Year of release
- 2002
- Cast & Crew
- Curved Air (Music Performer)
- Mark Edwards (Producer)
- Colin Caldwell (Sound Engineer)
Tracklisting
Disc 1:
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It Happened Today
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Stretch
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Screw
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Blind Man
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Vivaldi
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Hide and Seek
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Propositions
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Rob One
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Situations
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Vivaldi with Cannons
