![]() Only "Lady withīullets in Her Hair" is floydian enough to be compared. Tracks, but this is no more than a curiosity for Pink Floyd's completionists. Most of the tracks were produced by Nick Mason, and he and Richard Wright appear on two Written by Lisa Bankoff, are a mix of British psychedelia with folk elements that add a touch of Who is curious to know why, can give a read to the band's bio. The amazing story of this album begins in 1969 just to be relaeased 32 years after the end of With a bit more luck, they could have been predecessors to bands like Fairport Convention. The music of Chimera is influenced by the British psychedelia of late 60s with folky elements mainly in the high-pitch voices and the use of acoustic guitars. ROY TEMRO and LISA BANKOFF are now dead (RIP). A copy is in the Australian National Library (Lisa moved to Perth). FRANCESCA and LISA wrote a book about their life in London during the late '60s / early '70s called Making It! Famous Names and Silly Girls. It's not official, but it looks like one of the reasons why the tracks remained unreleased was that Nick Mason was owning the rights and didn't allow the material to be published. All their music, except those 10 tracks seemed lost forever, but 9 more tracks have been resumed somewhere and included in a later edition of the album. The album was released 32 years after being recorded. A couple of tracks feature Nick Mason and Rick Wright. The tape was remastered from a cassette copy, but it remained in the archives only to be rediscovered in 2001, year of the final release of their album. There was a brief reunion in 1975 but nothing more happened until 1980 when ten survived tracks were discovered in the Morgan's archives during a project for reissues. There they recorded a tape of own songs but it remained into a cassette until they came back to UK in 1967. After having a tape refused by EMI in 1965, they went to Rome where both their mothers were living. It all started around 1963 when two Beatles groupies, Lisa Bankoff (piano) and Francesca Garnett (vocals) decided to start writing their own songs. FRANCESCA and LISA wrote a book about their life in London during the late '60s / early '70s called M. Atlantic declined its interest, then later Bob Weston joined the Fleetwood Mac. Almost all of those musicians appear in the album lineup: MAL LUKER (The Smoke) who is currently a successful producer in films industry (OST of Pirates of Caribbean), the bassist NICK SOUTH (Alexis Korner), the guitarist BOB WESTON, the drummer Roy Temro and the appearance of NICK MASON and RICK WRIGHT. Lisa Bankoff wrote: The project fell to pieces mainly because I had a car accident shortly after the recordings were finished and couldn't walk for a couple of years. Nick Mason tried a deal with Atlantic, but the band rapidly disbanded. After some changes in the lineup, when they were recording the album, the label closed down. ![]() The band didn't last long so they had to hire the instrumentist through melody maker. With Nick Mason as manager the two girls signed off a contract with Blue Morgan and assembled a band including Ian Milne on keyboards and two unknown musicians. Back to UK, Nick Mason offered to become their manager with David Gilmour as producer. It was in Rome, in May 1968, that they had the opportunity to approach Nick Mason while the Pink Floyd were taking part to a festival. ![]()
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