Second Album (Curved Air album)

Infobox Album
Name = Second Album
Type = studio
Artist = Curved Air


Released = September 1971
Recorded = Island Studios Morgan Studios
Genre = Progressive rock Folk rock
Length = 40:25
Label =
Producer = Curved Air Colin Caldwell
Reviews =
Last album = Airconditioning
This album = Second Album
Next album = Phantasmagoria
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternative cover
Type = album


Lower caption = US album cover

Second Album was the second album released by British rock group Curved Air. It reached No. 11 in the UK Charts on 9th October 1971, and "Back Street Luv" became a UK No. 4 chart hit on 7th August 1971. [UKChartHits|2274]

Track listing

ide One

# "Young Mother" (Darryl Way, Sonja Kristina Linwood) (5:55)
# "Back Street Luv" (Way, Linwood, Ian Eyre) (3:38)
# "Jumbo" (Way, Linwood) (4:11)
# "You Know" (Way, Linwood) (4:11)
# "Puppets" (Way, Linwood) (5:26)

ide Two

# "Everdance" (Francis Monkman) (3:08)
# "Bright Summer's Day '68" (Monkman) (2:54)
# "Piece of Mind" (Monkman, T. S. Eliot) [includes a section from "The Waste Land":

The river sweats Oil and tar The barges drift With the turning tide Red sails Wide To leeward, swing on the heavy spar. The barges wash Drifting logs Down Greenwich reach Past the Isle of Dogs. (from III The Fire Sermon)

] (12:52)

Personnel

*Ian Eyre – bass
*Sonja Kristina – vocals
*Francis Monkman – guitars, keyboards, VCS3 synthesizer
*Florian Pilkington-Miksa – drums
*Darryl Way – violin, piano, vocals

References