5 February 2019

MiRAGE - Now You See It... (Compendium 1977)


This one is minor rarity for Canterbury scene followers. Steve Cook was bassist in Soft Machine (Alive and Well in Paris era), Dave Sheen played in Soft Head. Other two are also familiar names. Music on band's only album on Norweigian label flows in jazz/rock vein. Not my rip, found via torrents. I see now it was reissued on CD by Vocalion with 2 bonus tracks in 2007, but seems to be OOP.

MiRAGE - Now You See It... (Compendium 1977)

A1 King's Heads
A2 Always Leaving
A3 Time Less Words
B1 Elephant's Tales
B2 Ballade
B3 Underneath The Arches And Beyond

GEORGE KHAN - tenor, alto & soprano saxes, flute
BRiAN GODDiNG - acoustic, electric & tenor guitars
STEVE COOK - electric & string bass
DAVE SHEEN - drums, percussion

Compendium Records 1977, Fidardo 9 (vinyl rip)

CD version added -- see Mr. propylaen2001 comment!
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13 comments:

  1. miloo25 February 2019 at 21:32:00 CET

    flac @ ulozto.net

    mp3 @ ulozto.net

    If any can provide CD rip, it would be welcome.

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  2. Paul Jefferson Woods6 February 2019 at 00:27:00 CET

    How cool is this with the exception of Dave Sheen all Mike Westbrook personnel. Met Steve Cook when he was the bass tutor for a MU workshop in Newcastle with other guys from the Westbrook band including Alan Wakeman, Malcolm Griffiths and Alan Jackson. Steve also played and recorded with seventh wave ane Annette Peacock - Thanks for this gem.

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  3. rev.b6 February 2019 at 02:49:00 CET

    I haven’t heard or thought about this album for many many years, one of the more obscure ones from the handful of releases on the amazing Compendium label from Norway. Thanks for this forgotten memory

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  4. BT6 February 2019 at 16:46:00 CET

    Thank-you very much

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  5. Destroyer19856 February 2019 at 23:44:00 CET

    Thanks!

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  6. apf7 February 2019 at 07:08:00 CET

    Thank you !

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  7. brian7 February 2019 at 11:15:00 CET

    fantastic!

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  8. Captain Beyond9 February 2019 at 20:02:00 CET

    Thanks a lot! Would also love to hear the CD version!

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  9. propylaen200117 February 2019 at 22:52:00 CET

    Here is the cd version with almost 35 minutes of bonus material:

    https://drive.google.com/open?id=1s_5Fre196-gFd82h0l6z5ygJFsgH4lz8

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  10. Ernst Grgo Nebhuth18 February 2019 at 08:08:00 CET

    Yow - thanks very much. Herzlichen Dank ;-)

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  11. miloo218 February 2019 at 09:27:00 CET

    Wow, thank you Propylaen. And thanks to discussion on The Canterbury Scene fb group I also discovered two Solid Gold Cadillac albums!

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  12. correct silence27 February 2019 at 13:41:00 CET

    In my opinion this record does not have much to do with the sound of Canterbury and I'm not talking about its quality. The sound of Canterbury can be defined by two major characteristics. On the one hand the predominance of keyboards which have a much more important place than guitars, Of course Phil Miller is at the origin of Delivery then will play in Hatfield And The North and finally in National Health but the influential keyboards in this style are more numerous: Mike Ratledge, Dave McRae, Dave Stewart and Alan Gowen. There is no keyboards in this album and in all the bands from Canterbury, the keyboards were the most significant part of the musical colour. But above all this record does not present the style of writing characteristic of Canterbury, the fact that in the same piece there is complexity and simplicity, a kind of melodic impressionism supported by a very complex writing. One of the most significant examples of this style is undoubtedly National Health's first album, which is an absolute accomplishment of this dualism.
    Despite the presence of many famous names of the Canterbury school in bands like Soft Head or Soft Heap, those bands are more in the jazz rock style than in the Canterbury prog.

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  13. Farmer Allan14 January 2020 at 21:58:00 CET

    Propylaen ! Thanks for upping the extended CD version (and for keeping it published!!)

    You're the kind of person I want to grow up to be

    Well, you and Nisar Ahmed Khan, that is!

    Thanks again

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