Third Ear Band: Elements 1970-1971 (Expanded)

This, the band’s second album, was issued in June 1970 and gained good reviews in the underground music press. Always fluid with their line-ups, UrsulaSmith and Richard Coff departed the band in September 1970, some weeks after recording a soundtrack to a German television film, “Abelard and Heloise”, tobe replaced by Ben Cartland and Paul Buckmaster. At this point the Third Ear Band began to explore a more experimental rock direction, stating that theywould go “electric” for their next album, tentatively entitled “The Dragon Awakes”. Despite an album’s worth of studio sessions being recorded at Abbey Roadstudios in late 1970 and the Spring of 1971, the project was eventually shelved.This 3 disc digipack edition of THIRD EAR BAND features eleven previously unreleased tracks; the entire “Dragon Awakes” sessions, all previouslyunreleased, along with alternate session takes, two BBC John Peel sessions from 1970 and 1971 and a newly re-mastered version of the “Abelard andHeloise” soundtrack produced from recently discovered first generation master tapes. The set also includes a booklet with new essay by Third Ear Bandaficionado Luca Ferrari.