CURVED AIR - Air Conditioning 1970

CURVED AIR \ AIR CONDITIONING 1970.

Biography :
CURVED AIR were formed in 1970 by Sonja Kristina (vocals), Darryl Way (violin), Francis Monkman (keyboards), Florian Pilkington-Miksa (drums). The group decided the name using a shortened version of Terry Riley’s composition “A rainbow in curved air”. In their first album “Air Conditioning”, a prominent role was given to vocals and violin; the album reached number 8 in the British charts.
Then, in 1971, they released “Second Album”, highly recommended example of CURVED AIR sound (a mix of acoustic folk and progressive rock).
1972 was the year of “Phantasmagoria”, with Mike Wedgwood as bass guitarist. After a long tourney the band fell apart and Way formed the WOLF, while CURVED AIR showed a new line-up with Eddy Jobson as violinist, but they will never reach the performance level of the early two albums. In 1973, after “Air Cut” (with a sound hard oriented), Wedgwood joined with CARAVAN and Jobson with ROXY MUSIC. The four members of the original project made the first reunion in 1975 for a tourney (album “Curved Air Live”).
Afterwards Kristina and Way carried on with drummer Stewart Copeland, bassist Tony Reeves, guitarist Mick Jacques and released “Midnight Wire”. Their last album was “Airborne”, published in 1976. The second reunion of the four former members was in 1990 for a concert in London (album “Alive 1990”). In the same year was released an album of previously unissued tracks recorded in 1973 (“Lovechild”). Finally, in 1995, an album of BBC sessions, called “Live at BBC”.
I posted 4 albums ,if you don't have them even with a delay of 39 years you can have them today.
Line-up
- Sonja Christina / vocals
- Darryl Way / vocal, electric violin, piano on "Puppet"
- Francis Monkman / guitar, keyboards, VCS3 synthesizer
- Ian Eyre / bass guitar
- Florian Pilkington Miksa / drums
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