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Various Artists
Breath of Fresh Air
Genres: Pop, Rock

Track Listings (52) - Disc #1
1. Evil
2. Listen, Learn, Read On
3. Druid One
4. Station Song
5. Rainmaker
6. Singing A Song In The Morning
7. Foresaking
8. Careful With That Axe Eugene (Live)
9. Armchair Theatre
10. Big Bear Ffolly
11. Round And Round
12. Octopus
13. Painter
14. Country Morning
15. Francesca
16. Bad Penny
17. Backwood Theme
18. Real Cool World
19. Breathe
20. Taking Some Time On
21. There's No Vibrations, But Wait!
22. Soulful Lady
23. Entropy
24. Black Sheep Of The Family
25. Grass
26. Salisbury Plain
27. Embryo
28. Shouldn't Have Took More Than You Gave
29. Speed King
30. Magic Woman Touch
31. Aeroplane Head Woman
32. Baby Lemonade
33. Don't You Grieve
34. October 26
35. Song From The Bottom Of A Well
36. First Leaf Of Autumn
37. Call Me A Liar
38. She Said
39. South Africa
40. Evening Over Rooftops
41. Do Ya
42. When The City Sleeps
43. Lady Rachel (Single Edit 1972)
44. 10538 Overture
45. City (Part Three)
46. Spaceship
47. Overture: Macbeth
48. Fresh Air (Excerpt)
49. Twelve Hours Of Sunset
50. Wells Fargo
51. Showdown
52. Jet Silver & The Dolls Of Venus

This 3 CD collection of music tells the story of the finest years of the Harvest Record label, featuring a diverse roster of talent that defined the sound of underground music culture that exploded in Britain in the late 6... more »

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All Artists: Various Artists
Title: Breath of Fresh Air
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: EMI Import
Original Release Date: 5/15/2007
Re-Release Date: 5/21/2007
Album Type: Import
Genres: Pop, Rock
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Number of Discs: 3
SwapaCD Credits: 3
UPC: 094638861324

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Gathering in the Harvest...

William M. Feagin | Salem, MA | 11/04/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Over the last 10 years, EMI has released 2 boxed sets of classic tracks from its underground label Harvest's roster. The first was 1999's Harvest Festival, a 5-CD box covering the label's active decade, 1969-79, and a rather exhaustive set to boot--psychedelia (late period), prog rock, experimental, folk-rock, even punk and new wave were covered in that set. At one sitting, this can be a bit much to try and digest--I had some trouble staying focused through the whole 5 discs.

This set, A Breath of Fresh Air, is titled after another Harvest anthology from the '70s--Picnic: A Breath of Fresh Air--and is just 3 discs covering half the time (1969-74). Additionally, while ABOFA and Harvest Festival share a number of tracks, still others that do not appear on Harvest Festival do appear on ABOFA. The reduction to 5 years covered from 10 means some of the artists represented here have less representation (e.g. Be-Bop Deluxe, just 1 track here, as opposed to 4 on Harvest Festival), but the diversity still makes it quite enjoyable--you have Deep Purple, Roy Harper, The Move, Babe Ruth, Be-Bop Deluxe, Michael Chapman, Dolly Collins, the Edgar Broughton Band, Tea & Symphony, the Third Ear Band, and Pink Floyd, to name a few, a nice selection of both famous and obscure.

All in all, worth picking up."