Name: Blowing Free – Underground and Progressive Sounds of 1972
Brand: Various

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

ECLEC42799

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-05-27

Signed copies

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Supplier GB

Cherry Red (ADA)

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5013929479982

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Artist

Various

Genre GB

Prog Rock

Label GB

Esoteric Recordings

The next release in their series of compilations celebrating the so-called “underground” rock music – Blowing Free – Underground And Progressive Sounds Of 1972, is a 4CD clamshell box set which gathers together over five hours of music from 1972, a momentous year in rock music and one which would continue to see Progressive music in all its forms become a dominating force with the album buying public. Much of this music appeared on the “progressive” imprints of major record labels such as EMI’s Harvest, Decca’s Deram and Philips Records’ Vertigo and the emerging independent labels such as Charisma, United Artists and Island Records and led to an increasied presence of underground album music on BBC Radio One with its Sounds Of The Seventies and Top Gear programmes. On television the iconic series The Old Grey Whistle Test would be a major contributor to the success of many of these musicians.

1972 saw a wealth of imaginative artists continue to meld seemingly disparate musical genres and influences such as Jazz, Blues, Folk, Rock and Classical music on a host of wonderful albums, all of which appealed to an audience of students and followers of the “underground’ culture. Universities and Colleges were regular venues on the burgeoning live music circuit in the UK for these artists, most of whom earned loyal followings through regular concert performances both in Britain and in Europe. It was also a year when many of these performers gained commercial success with acts such as Family, Free, Hawkwind and Thin Lizzy enjoying singles chart success while Emerson, Lake And Palmer, Procol Harum, Ten Years After, Uriah heep, Wishbone Ash and Yes would enjoy considerable album chart success in the UK, USA and Europe.

1 Hoedown – EMERSON LAKE &amp; PALMER 2 Time Take My Life – ATOMIC ROOSTER 3 Get Out of Bed / There’s Nobody There / Side by Side – EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND 4 Medicine Man (single version) – BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST 5 Marie Antoinette – CURVED AIR 6 Skin Valley Serenade – SKIN ALLEY 7 Swamp Fever – OPEN ROAD 8 Don’t Ask Me – LINDISFARNE 9 Songs Out of Clay – AL STEWART 10 Sheep Season – MELLOW CANDLE 11 Epic Forest – RARE BIRD 12 My Friend the Sun – FAMILY 13 Do You Believe in Magic (single version) – NEKTAR 14 Seven by Seven (single version) – HAWKWIND 15 And You and I – YES

1 Time Was – WISHBONE ASH 2 A Winter’s Tale – JADE WARRIOR 3 The Love In Your Eye/To Catch Me A Brother/Subsultus/Debouchment/Tilbury Kecks – CARAVAN 4 Brainstorm – HAWKWIND 5 Theme One – VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR 6 Reaffirmation – HELP YOURSELF 7 Burlesque – FAMILY 8 O Caroline – MATCHING MOLE 9 Conquistador (live) – PROCOL HARUM 10 Lost Tribe – BOND &amp; BROWN 11 Speed Queen Of Ventura – VINEGAR JOE 12 Wishing Well – FREE

1 The Wizard – URIAH HEEP 2 Prologue – RENAISSANCE 3 Chilly Morning Mama – EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND 4 American Mother – HELP YOURSELF 5 Love Is Good – PRETTY THINGS 6 Turn It All Around – RARE BIRD 7 Blowin’ Free – WISHBONE ASH 8 Bananas – MAN 9 Blue Angel – DAVE COUSINS 10 See the World (Through My Eyes) – VINEGAR JOE 11 Lady Of The Lake – JADE WARRIOR 12 Stranded – KHAN 13 Whiskey In The Jar – THIN LIZZY

1 Two Weeks Last Summer – DAVE COUSINS 2 Nick’s Seven – SKIN ALLEY 3 Choo Choo Mama – TEN YEARS AFTER 4 Hellbound Train – SAVOY BROWN 5 Peter – PRETTY THINGS 6 Rip Off Train – PRETTY THINGS 7 Instant Kitten – MATCHING MOLE 8 The Boys In The Band – GENTLE GIANT 9 Midnight Moses – SENSATIONAL ALEX HARVEY BAND 10 Walk Don’t Run – PINK FAIRIES 11 Ricochet – JONESY 12 When The City Sleeps – BOMBADIL 13 Desolation Valley/Waves – NEKTAR 14 Melinda More Or Less – CURVED AIR 15 Hollow Stone – KHAN