Mainstream (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Mainstream
(LP)
Type = Album
Artist = Quiet Sun


Released = 1975
Recorded = 1975
Genre = Rock
Length = 39:23
Label = Island
Producer = Quiet Sun
Reviews = [http://gnosis2000.net/reviews/quietsun.htm gnosis2000.net]
[http://www.btinternet.com/~stephen.yarwood/quiet_sun.htm Stephen Yarwood] - reviewing track by track
[http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=8459#reviews www.progarchives.com]
[http://www.gepr.net/q.html#QUIETSUN www.gepr.net]
[http://www.manzanera.com/QuietSunalbum.htm NME, Sounds, Melody Maker et al.]
[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000003RT8 www.amazon.com]
[http://www.progweed.net/reviews/q/q.html www.progweed.net]
Last album =
This album = "Mainstream"
(1975)
Next album = Infobox Album |
Name = Mainstream
(CD Release)
Type = Album
Artist = Quiet Sun


Released = 1997
Label = Expression Records
Reviews =
Last album =
This album = "Mainstream"
(1975)
Next album =

"For the self-titled first album of the band called Mainstream see that band's page."

"Mainstream" is the first and only album of the UK Canterbury Scene band Quiet Sun. The band split up in 1972, Manzanera to Roxy Music, MacCormick to Matching Mole, Hayward to This Heat, and Jarrett began to teach mathematics.

In 1975, Manzanera booked a studio for 26 days to record his first solo album "Diamond Head" and got Quiet Sun together again to record an album from their composed material in the studio at the same time. The result "Mainstream" was critically acclaimed and became the New Musical Express' album of the month, apparently Island Records' fourth or fifth biggest seller at the time, close up to Bad Company and Cat Stevens.

A CD release was published in 1997 on Manzanera's label Expression Records.

Track listing

#"Sol Caliente" (Phil Manzanera) – 8:02
#"Trumpets with Motherhood" (Charles Hayward) – 1:30
#"Bargain Classics" (Dave Jarrett) – 5:37
#"R.F.D." (Jarrett) – 3:09
#"Mummy was an asteroid, Daddy was a small non-stick kitchen utensil" (Bill MacCormick) – 6:09
#"Trot" (Manzanera) – 5:00
#"Rongwrong" (Hayward) – 9:39

Personnel

* Charles Hayward - drums, percussion, keyboards, voice
* Dave Jarrett - fender rhodes & steinway grand pianos, farfisa & hammond organs, VCS3
* Phil Manzanera - electric 6 & 12 string guitars, treated guitars, fender rhodes piano
* Bill MacCormick - electric bass, treated bass, back-up voices"with"
* Eno - synthesizer, treatments & oblique strategies
* Ian MacCormick (aka Ian MacDonald) - back-up voices

References

* [http://www.manzanera.com/QuietSun1.htm Quiet Sun Main Page] at [http://www.manzanera.com www.manzanera.com] with pictures, interviews and more
* [http://www.manzanera.com/qscat.htm Quiet Sun Catalogue Details] at [http://www.manzanera.com www.manzanera.com]
* [http://www.manzanera.com/record2.htm#Quietsun Phil Manzanera - Recordings] at [http://www.manzanera.com www.manzanera.com]
* [http://www.manzanera.com/QuietSunalbum.htm#Erskine Quiet Sun Album Reviews] at [http://www.manzanera.com www.manzanera.com]