Name: Open Spaces
Brand: CMU

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

TB6485

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Colour

black

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Discs

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

180gm gatefold sleeve.

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2019-11-08

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Lasgo

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0889397106485

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Genre GB

Prog Rock

Label GB

Tiger Bay

Cambridge-based experimental group Contemporary Music Unit was formed in the late 1960s by the guitarist, author and visual artist Ed Lee with former student Terry Mortimer on guitar and keyboards. Lee recruited bassist Adrian Kendon who brought drummer Roger Odell, the latter a powerful foil to Lee’s experimental visions. When Kendon left, Lee assumed bass duties and Odell’s wife Larraine became a primary vocalist (after the departure of early member Sally Knox), along with teaching colleague James Gordon. Following eventful live performances at Leeds University, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and London’s esteemed Purcell Room, debut album Open Spaces was conceived as a musical accompaniment to an art installation by Peter Hibbard (an assistant to sculptor Henry Moore). Drawing from various European folk elements, as well as blues, psychedelia, jazz, reggae and traditional African and Indian forms, Open Spaces is a unique slice of British art-rock from one of the most intriguing and short-lived acts of the movement. Contains an unusual reading of Pharoah Sanders’ “Japan,” along with eight multifaceted originals, including forlorn opener “Henry,” about a struggling artist’s fatal tribulations.

Open Spaces

Music GB