CURVED AIR
''AIR CUT''
APRIL 1973
39:21
1 The Purple Speed Queen (Sonja Kristina/Kirby Gregory) 03:26
2 Elfin Boy (Sonja Kristina) 04:11
3 Metamorphosis (Sonja Kristina/Eddie Jobson) 10:37
4 World (Michael Wedgwood) 01:32
5 Armin (Michael Wedgwood, Kirby Gregory, Eddie Jobson, Jim Russell) 03:40
6 U.H.F. (Kirby Gregory) 05:04
7 Two-Three-Two (Michael Wedgwood) 04:09
8 Easy (Sonja Kristina) 06:38
Kirby Gregory - Guitars, Vocals
Eddie Jobson - Keyboards, Violin, Vocals
Sonja Kristina - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Jim Russell - Drums, Percussion
Mike Wedgwood - Bass Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Lead Vocal on 7
ABOUT THE ALBUM
REVIEW/AMG
by François Couture
Curved Air's fourth album featured a very different lineup and is considered by many a weaker effort. Of course, it does not have the bombast of Phantasmagoria (Francis Monkman's classical touch is cruelly missed), but it still has its share of strong moments. By 1973, only singer Sonja Kristina remained of the original members, but her voice suffices to keep the flame burning. She and bassist Mike Wedgewood, introduced with the previous LP, are joined by drummer Jim Russell, guitarist Gregory Kirby, and an 18-year-old violinist/keyboardist by the name of Eddie Jobson. "The Purple Speed Queen," a decent light psychedelic rock song, became one of the group's best-known tracks, and the ten-minute "Metamorphosis" still ranks high among the classic tracks of British progressive rock (here Jobson comes very close to Monkman's virtuosity at the piano). Side two of the original LP comprised a string of more straightforward rock numbers in the vein of Babe Ruth. Less striking, it pictured a group trying to widen its audience without sounding convinced it was the right thing to do. The album closer, "Easy," a lusher ballad, was nonetheless a good song. The only LP released by this lineup and the only Curved Air album with Jobson on it (he would join Roxy Music right after its completion), Air Cut is mostly remembered for introducing the future member of UK, Jethro Tull, and many other prog rock-related bands.
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''AIR CUT''
APRIL 1973
39:21
1 The Purple Speed Queen (Sonja Kristina/Kirby Gregory) 03:26
2 Elfin Boy (Sonja Kristina) 04:11
3 Metamorphosis (Sonja Kristina/Eddie Jobson) 10:37
4 World (Michael Wedgwood) 01:32
5 Armin (Michael Wedgwood, Kirby Gregory, Eddie Jobson, Jim Russell) 03:40
6 U.H.F. (Kirby Gregory) 05:04
7 Two-Three-Two (Michael Wedgwood) 04:09
8 Easy (Sonja Kristina) 06:38
Kirby Gregory - Guitars, Vocals
Eddie Jobson - Keyboards, Violin, Vocals
Sonja Kristina - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Jim Russell - Drums, Percussion
Mike Wedgwood - Bass Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Lead Vocal on 7
ABOUT THE ALBUM
REVIEW/AMG
by François Couture
Curved Air's fourth album featured a very different lineup and is considered by many a weaker effort. Of course, it does not have the bombast of Phantasmagoria (Francis Monkman's classical touch is cruelly missed), but it still has its share of strong moments. By 1973, only singer Sonja Kristina remained of the original members, but her voice suffices to keep the flame burning. She and bassist Mike Wedgewood, introduced with the previous LP, are joined by drummer Jim Russell, guitarist Gregory Kirby, and an 18-year-old violinist/keyboardist by the name of Eddie Jobson. "The Purple Speed Queen," a decent light psychedelic rock song, became one of the group's best-known tracks, and the ten-minute "Metamorphosis" still ranks high among the classic tracks of British progressive rock (here Jobson comes very close to Monkman's virtuosity at the piano). Side two of the original LP comprised a string of more straightforward rock numbers in the vein of Babe Ruth. Less striking, it pictured a group trying to widen its audience without sounding convinced it was the right thing to do. The album closer, "Easy," a lusher ballad, was nonetheless a good song. The only LP released by this lineup and the only Curved Air album with Jobson on it (he would join Roxy Music right after its completion), Air Cut is mostly remembered for introducing the future member of UK, Jethro Tull, and many other prog rock-related bands.
BIOGRAPHY/AMG
WEBSITE
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