Jade Warrior - Jade Warrior (1971) CD

Year: 1971 (CD 1988)

Label: Line Records (Germany), LICD 9.00548 O

Style: Progressive Rock, Rock

Country: 1970–2011 or 2014; United Kingdom

Time: 44:13

Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz

Size: 161 Mb

The core membership of Jade Warrior is/was Jon Field (flute etc.) and Tony Duhig (guitar). During their youths, Jon and Tony independently developed an interest in Jazz, African music, and Latin American music. They met in the early 1960s while driving forklift trucks in a factory, and soon learned that they shared musical interests and intentions. At the time, they were just beginning to play instruments themselves (Jon a set of congas, and Tony a cheap guitar which he tuned quite unconventionally to open C).
Each of them bought a quarter-track tape recorder, capable of sound-on-sound "pingponging". They began composing their own music, and experimenting with building up multi-layered overdubbed amalgams of the sorts of music which moved them... all done with practically no money. Jon has described this process as "our training... trying to build a cathedral with the sort of things you'd find in your back yard." This complex layered and overdubbed sound would be a hallmark of Jade Warrior's music throughout their entire career to date.
They spent the next years going to clubs, listening to jazz and blues, and in 1965 formed a rhythm & blues band called "Second Thoughts" headed up by lead singer Patrick Lyons. Second Thoughts released one four-song EP. During the same period, Tom Newman (later the engineer for Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells), Alan James, Pete Cook and Chris Jackson had formed the first incarnation of the "Tomcats" (one of several bands known to have used this name).
In 1965, both of these two bands split up. Patrick Lyons departed, joining up with Alex Spyropoulos in a duo named "Nirvana" which subsequently released an on-the-charts single "Rainbow Chaser" and a total of five LPs (with Jade Warrior members performing on one of them: 1971's Local Anaesthetic).
The Tomcats re-formed with a new line-up: Tom Newman, Alan James, Chris Jackson, Jon Field and Tony Duhig. The band spent the best part of 1965 and 1966 in Spain, acting as a spearhead for British pop music in that country. They released four EPs which did very well on the Spanish charts. The four EPs by The Tomcats were collected onto a single LP by Acme Records, and a pressing of The Second Thoughts' four-song EP was included.
After returning to England in 1966, the Tomcats were re-named "July", playing psychedelic-pop/rock written by Tom Newman and Pete Cook. July issued one album, which has been released in three different versions. The original version was July. A later release Second of July contains alternate versions and additional outtakes, and a third release Dandelion Seeds is a re-release of July plus the outtakes. July disbanded in 1968. Tony Duhig auditioned successfully for a role in a band called Unit Four Plus Two (a group which had released a hit song "Concrete and Clay" a few years earlier but had since lost all of its original members save the lead singer). Other recent additions to Unit Four Plus Two were bass guitarist and vocalist Glyn Havard, and drummer Allan Price. This line-up of Unit Four Plus Two did a brief club tour in the U.K., and then broke up.
Musical ideas continued to develop and they hooked up with Glyn again to work them in to songs. The first piece they worked on became 'The Traveller' (released on the first Vertigo album). They called the band Jade Warrior after one of the dance dramas they had composed for a London drama school.
(jadewarrior.com)

01. The Traveller (02:40)
02. A Prenormal Day At Brighton (02:45)
03. Masai Morning (Including Casting Of The Bones, The Hunt, A Ritual Of Kings) (06:44)
04. Windweaver (03:43)
05. Dragonfly Day (Including Metamorphosis, Dance Of The Sun Spirit, Death) (07:45)
06. Petunia (04:46)
07. Telephone Girl (04:54)
08. Psychiatric Sergeant (03:08)
09. Slow Ride (02:36)
10. Sundial Song (05:08)

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