Rare Bird-As Your Mind Flies By (1970)

Along with The Nice, Hawkwind, Genesis or Van Der Graaf Generator, "Rare Bird" was one of the first bands to sign with Charisma Records, the progressive-sounding record label that producer Tony Stratton-Smith had recently founded in 1969.
"Rare Bird" would emerge from the ashes of another band called "Lunch", and its most notable peculiarity was the total absence of string instruments, made up of two keyboard players, bass and drums, thus obtaining a very intense and dark sound in which According to their leader Graham Field, the guitars had no place.
A year after the release of their first album the band would release their album "As You Mind Flies By", their swan song and another progressive masterpiece.
If, with the first album, it reaches commercial levels that exceed the company itself, which had originally published a few thousand copies and which are insufficient when observing the high demand for the album, it sold a whopping more than one million copies, in this "As your mind files by" confirm the group as one of the most important in the progressive rock scene of the time and the stylistic continuity of the group.
Here the group showed even more eclecticism with the medieval "Down on the floor" or the epic "Flight", a marvelous theme that has nothing to envy to the larger suites of more leading groups.

Rare Bird-Rare Bird (1969)

A London band records a great album in the distant 1969, an album found in the origins of progressive rock. This is Rare Bird and his self-titled debut album.

It was a band that anticipated its time, and that created and transmitted musical sensations that at that time very few were able to understand.

Rare Bird can not be missed in any progressive rock guide, however at the time it was labeled as "eccentric and heterodox", mainly for using the organ as a leading instrument ... however it was eventually classified as a cult band. .remember that even Igor Strawinski himself was booed at the premiere of "The Consecration of Spring", don't forget that ... His first LP, simply titled Rare Bird, contains a theme, Sympathy, with an obsessive organ sound that it will become, published in single, in a world hit in 1970 selling more than one million copies.