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Raw material - raw material


Genre : Proto-Progressive 
jaar : 1970 
Land : UK 
Audio codec : APE 
Type rip : image + .cue 
Bitrate audio : lossless 
Duur : 44:20 

Tracklist

01. Time And Illusion
02. I'd Be Delighted
03. Fighting Cock
04. Pear On An Apple Tree
05. Future Recollections
06. Traveller Man
07. Destruction Of America
08. Time And Illusion (single version)*
09. Hi There Hallelujah*
10. Bobo's Party*
11. Days Of The Fighting Cocks (single version)*
* - Bonus tracks

RAW MATERIAL is a British band that released two albums in the ealy 70's that are now highly collectible. 
The group consist of your standard prog quartet plus frontman Mike Fletcher on wind instruments. 
They developped a slighly jazz-tinged progressive rock so typical of that era and their debut album had some great moments 
(the longer tracks on side1) but was also partially flawed but ends in a bizarre poem recitation to string arrangements. 
Most progheads will prefer the much more even Time Is.. Rare album that appeared on the RCA prog label called Neon records. 
This album (with the line-up augmented by a second guitarist Harewood) was much more 70's-sounding and left loads of space for instrument 
interplay and hold many fine moments that every proghead looking for rare late proto-prog should investigate.

Both albums have gotten a few Cd re-issues but beware of some approximate versions as some are giving strange info. The debut even came out with a spanish pop cover.