INDIAN SUMMER - Rare Live And Studio Tracks 1970-1971 - FRA On The Air Edition - VERY RARE

Limited CD with unreleased studio and live material from the time of the only album by this wonderful progressive band! When 20 years ago I wrote for 'Tylko Rock' a summary of the 40 best progressive/lesser-known albums in my opinion (the so-called 'Parszywa czterdziestka'), Indian Summer's record (1971) took first place there! Incidentally, I still recommend it warmly to this day!!! Unfortunately, the band never recorded anything else, and nothing suggested that any unknown IS music would ever see the light of day! Well... In 2016 Record Collector magazine (once a genuine Bible for record collectors), in cooperation with one of the musicians, put together a double album limited to 500 copies (in a hideously garish cover) containing unreleased archive material and a great many paper archive items! Among other things, four excellent, professional studio recordings from 1970 (including three compositions that did not appear on the catalogue LP), a rejected track from the album sessions, and a very nice, though rather raw, 55-minute concert from December 1970 containing material from the whole album (minus one track), with two recordings extended to 10 minutes! Everything would have been great, the problem is that the performance recorded by the band (of quite good quality) was copied 'one to one' and nobody noticed that the whole thing sounds too slow (a typical problem with recordings from the 60s and 70s) and runs 2 minutes longer! The same tiresome, sloooow mix was repeated a few months later on a Japanese CD. Once again it turned out that they care only about the paper artwork there, and couldn't care less about the quality of the music itself... In any case, this On The Air CD contains the five studio recordings mentioned and the entire performance - AT THE CORRECT SPEED. On top of that, the parameters have been tweaked a little and the concert sounds much clearer and cleaner, although for technical reasons the first two recordings have no vocals... This is an absolute must for all fans of the band and of British prog rock!