Friday 19 May 2023

Sphincter Ensemble's Harrodian Event #1 from 1972 (previously unreleased)




A band name I'm definitely not enamoured of, for sure.  I was led to this when I was poking around in the discography of Peter Robinson, who appeared in multiple prog bands of the 70s.  This outfit only made the one album which wasn't released at the time.

Going back to keyboardist Peter, note he was in Ablution the great one-off Swedish band, the well known Brand X with the incomparable Bill Bruford, Sun Treader with their fusion instrumental Zin-Zin, famed progsters Quatermass, the magnificently creative and progressive Chitinous Ensemble (which I thought I featured here before, but turns out I didn't).

Anyways this is not his best work, it's meandering and experimental, improvised stuff.  For ex., Event #7 subtitled Country Knees:



Finally, note the bio for Peter R.:

Composer - arranger - keyboardist. Not to be confused with Pete Robinson (2)!
Born on 16 September 1945, Buckinghamshire, U.K. He studied piano and composition at the Royal Academy of Music and enjoyed a successful career as a session keyboardist throughout the 1970s, working with artists such as Quatermass (3)Brand X (3)Phil CollinsMike RutherfordShawn Phillips (2)Stanley ClarkeCarly SimonBryan FerryStealers WheelAndrew Lloyd Webber and others. He made his film music debut as a solo composer in 1985, scoring a number of successful films including CocktailBlind FuryCadillac ManEncino ManWayne's WorldWes Craven's New NightmareHighlander III: The SorcererVampire in BrooklynRumble in the Bronx, and The World’s Fastest Indian. Also contributed music to a number of acclaimed TV series, including The Wonder YearsTales from the CryptEerie IndianaCharmed and The Handler. As a successful pop arranger, he has collaborated with Eric ClaptonManhattan TransferAl Jarreau and Melissa Etheridge.


5 comments:


  1. https://krakenfiles.com/view/8dKzm18OPx/file.html

    https://www.sendspace.com/file/10a4ml

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  2. Thanks Julian for the reference of Pete Robinson, I've found Medusa with John Lee & Gerry Brown, Eef Albers and Daryl Thompson, also D.Sancious and some beautiful vocals by Cheryl Thompson at discogs. There's a duel between the guitar and the ARP Odissey of Pete Robinson at the end. Do you have it?
    Also Leano Morelli – Roma - Londra - Milano, with Mel Collins, MoFoster, Tony Cicco, Ray Russel to name just a few.

    I suggest a post about the cantautori Umberto Balsamo, that Pete Robinson was involved with Balla and Pianetti albums.

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  3. Hey Julian, any chance of posting the Chitinous Ensemble? YOu got me curious. Thanks, Rick K

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  4. sure will do
    I should post all his prog related stuff

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  5. Hello Julyan. I am an admirer of your blog. Always good things to discover. Do you know from Netherlands the band Poetica in Silentio? they have 3 albums. Same / Who Rolls The Dice?/ What Do Fish Know? can you give us something?

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