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VA - A Breath of Fresh Air: A Harvest Records Anthology 1969-1974 [3CD Box Set] (2007)

VA - A Breath of Fresh Air: A Harvest Records Anthology 1969-1974 [3CD Box Set] (2007)

BAND/ARTIST: Various Artists

Although there are those who nail their spirals to Vertigo as the prog label of choice, EMI’s Harvest certainly vies with it for pole position. With Harvest, the detail was everything. Loaded with the bizarre, striking and the strange, turns abounded like the Third Ear Band, Kevin Ayers and The Greatest Show On Earth. From the bad acid of Edgar Broughton’s There’s No Vibrations, But Wait through the squiffy majesty of Dave Mason’s You Shouldn’t Have Took More Than You Gave, to Be- Bop Deluxe’s future pop of Jet Silver and the Dolls Of Venus, this collection is impressive and nostalgic – its very lack of a house style providing its consistency.

It was Pink Floyd who took the label into most homes, and their two contributions here – including the super-rare (but really rather dull) Embryo – offer few clues to just how enormous they’d be. Syd’s here too, of course.

It ends in 1974, as its original principles were being compromised and Marshall Hain and La Belle Epoque were just around the corner… Oh, Wot A Dream it all is.

TRACKLIST:

Disc 1 (01:16:48)
1. The Edgar Broughton Band – Evil (02:34)
2. Deep Purple – Listen, Learn, Read On (04:04)
3. Third Ear Band – Druid One (03:44)
4. Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments – Station Song (03:24)
5. Michael Chapman – Rainmaker (03:41)
6. Kevin Ayers – Singing A Song In The Morning (02:53)
7. Shirley & Dolly Collins – A Foresaking - Our Captain Cried (02:53)
8. Pink Floyd – Careful With That Axe, Eugene (08:50)
9. Tea & Symphony – Armchair Theatre (03:55)
10. Bakerloo – Big Bear Ffolly (04:00)
11. Panama Limited Jug Band – Round And Round (03:15)
12. Syd Barrett – Octopus (03:44)
13. Deep Purple – The Painter (03:52)
14. Pete Brown & Piblokto! – Country Morning (06:49)
15. Roy Harper – Francesca (01:19)
16. Forest – Bad Penny (02:34)
17. Chris Spedding – Backwood Theme (02:04)
18. The Greatest Show On Earth – Real Cool World (04:48)
19. Ron Geesin & Roger Waters – Breathe (02:54)
20. Barclay James Harvest – Taking Some Time On (05:31)

Disc 2 (01:11:56)
1. Edgar Broughton Band – There's No Vibrations, But Wait (04:13)
2. Michael Chapman – Soulful Lady (04:14)
3. Quatermass – Entropy (01:10)
4. Quatermass – Black Sheep Of The Family (03:36)
5. Pretty Things – Grass (04:20)
6. Shirley & Dolly Collins – Salisbury Plain (02:40)
7. Pink Floyd – Embryo (04:41)
8. Dave Mason – You Shouldn't Have Took More Than You Gave (06:00)
9. Deep Purple – Speed King (04:24)
10. The Greatest Show On Earth – Magic Woman Touch (05:11)
11. Pete Brown & Piblokto! – Aeroplane Head Woman (06:38)
12. Syd Barrett – Baby Lemonade (04:11)
13. Roy Harper – Don't You Grieve (02:32)
14. Pretty Things – October 26 (04:52)
15. Kevin Ayers – Song From The Bottom Of A Well (04:37)
16. Michael Chapman – The First Leaf Of Autumn (04:10)
17. The Edgar Broughton Band – Call Me A Liar (04:27)

Disc 3 (01:17:09)
1. Barclay James Harvest – She Said (08:21)
2. Roy Harper – South Africa (04:02)
3. Edgar Broughton Band – Evening Over Rooftops (05:01)
4. The Move – Do Ya (04:03)
5. Bombadil – When The City Sleeps (04:15)
6. Kevin Ayers – Lady Rachel (1972 Version) (04:51)
7. Electric Light Orchestra – 10538 Overture (05:29)
8. Mark-Almond – The City (Part Three) (07:37)
9. Spontaneous Combustion – Spaceship (03:29)
10. Third Ear Band – Overture (04:20)
11. Jan Akkerman – Fresh Air (Excerpt) (06:02)
12. Roy Harper – Twelve Hours Of Sunset (05:06)
13. Babe Ruth – Wells Fargo (06:12)
14. Electric Light Orchestra – Showdown (04:11)
15. Be Bop Deluxe – Jet Silver And The Dolls Of Venus (04:10)

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  • Philip Cohen
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I've got this 3-CD set (and the 5-CD "Harvest Festival" set) in my collection, and I highly recommend both of them. Both are deleted, and will never be offered again, due to the break-up of EMI. Some artist catalogs went to Warner Music, while other artist catalogs reverted back to artists, managers, song publishers and recording studios. By the time that EMi released "A Breath of Fresh Air" & "Harvest Festival", EMI's license on much of this music had expired, and they had to license it. Since Warner Music took over parts of the 1969-2012 "Harvest" catalog(but not the Harvest" name or logo), Warners had to divest themselves of several artist catalogs ("Be Bop Deluxe" & "Barclay James Harvest"). which were sold to the "Esoteric" label.
Labels like "Harvest", "Charisma", "Island" & "Vertigo" recorded some of the greatest British Progressive music ever. It is an era that is gone, never to return. Enjoy this set.
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  • mufty77
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Many thanks for lossless.
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  • mokey
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Thank you for the Flac.
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  • whiskers
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Many Thanks
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  • mldekker
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Veel Dank !!
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