Picnic – A Breath of Fresh Air is a sampler issued by the Harvest Records label, originally released in 1970 and notable for including the previously unreleased Pink Floyd song, " Embryo ".
10-467: Third Ear may refer to: Music [ edit ] Third Ear Band , a British band,z Third Ear Band (album) , 1970 eponymous album Third Ear, an Israeli record store that runs the Earsay record label Language and listening [ edit ] Third ear, a concept formulated by psychoanalyst Theodor Reik , explained in his book Listening with
20-422: A double album retailing at 29s/11d (approximately £1.50). The result was an eclectic mixture of traditional folk, hard rock, psychedelia and obscurities. The inclusion of "Embryo", without the approval of Pink Floyd, and which the band considered unfinished, resulted in the album's prompt withdrawal. Some editions do not credit the track to Pink Floyd on the inside cover. None of the artists who were featured on
30-596: The Blind Faith Free Concert at Hyde Park on 5 July 1969, and played at the Isle of Wight Festival the next month. Picnic %E2%80%93 A Breath of Fresh Air The similarly-entitled A Breath of Fresh Air – A Harvest Records Anthology 1969–1974 released on 14 May 2007 borrowed most of the original title, but had only three tracks in common with its precursor (Pink Floyd's "Embryo", Panama Limited's "Round and Round", and Quatermass ' "Black Sheep of
40-615: The UFO Club by assembling members of the audience, usually at 4 am, into a free-form group playing for the, by then, exhausted dancers. The drummer, Glen Sweeney, was sometimes so carried away he had to be told that the rest of the group had finished. They became known as The Giant Sun Trolley. Members came from The Giant Sun Trolley and The People Band to create an improvised music drawing on Eastern raga forms, European folk , experimental and medieval influences. They recorded their first session in 1968 for Ron Geesin , which
50-532: The Family"). Although most tracks featured were of similar vintage, the album was a retrospective compilation , rather than a promotional sampler. EMI Records launched the Harvest label in 1969 to take advantage of the progressive rock market, and like many record labels at the time, they produced a budget-priced showcase album of their artists. Their roster of artists was large and interesting enough to support
60-549: The Third Ear: The Inner Experience of a Psychoanalyst The Third Ear , a book on language learning by Chris Lonsdale Other uses [ edit ] Third Ear, a cell-cultivated ear surgically attached to the left arm of performance artist Stelarc Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Third Ear . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
70-682: The inclusion of one track on the Harvest sampler album Picnic – A Breath of Fresh Air . They recorded two soundtracks , the first in 1970 for an animated film by Herbert Fuchs of Abelard and Heloise (which first saw release as part of Luca Ferrari 's Necromancers of the Drifting West Sonic Book in 1997) and then in 1971 for Roman Polanski 's film of Macbeth . After various later incarnations and albums they finally disbanded in 1993, owing to leader and percussionist Glen Sweeney's ongoing health problems. They also opened
80-489: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Third_Ear&oldid=1251375871 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Third Ear Band Third Ear Band were a British musical group formed in London during
90-508: The mid-1960s. Their line-up initially consisted of violin, cello, oboe and percussion. Most of their performances were instrumental and partly improvised. Their records for the Harvest label, Alchemy and Third Ear Band , achieved some popularity, after which they found some success creating soundtrack music for films. Dave Tomlin , who had initiated free-form jazz sessions at the London Free School , began similar sessions at
100-569: Was released under the pseudonym of The National-Balkan Ensemble on one side of a Standard Music Library disc. Their first album, Alchemy , was released on the EMI Harvest label in 1969, and featured John Peel , the BBC disc jockey who did much to publicise the group, playing Jew's harp on one track. This was followed by an eponymous second album containing four tracks, "Air", "Earth", "Fire" and "Water", which reached wider attention due to
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