It has everything....rock...opera...folk...classical...pop
Took their name from Terry Riley's 'Rainbow in Curved Air' and features Daryl Way's soaring violin playing become one of a small handful of groups with a violin as lead instrument, (East of Eden, Flock and one of my favs, Its A beautiful Day being the others) and the out of this world voice of Sonja Kristina.
Released in 1970, I had the pleasure of seeing them twice, once at The Lyceum Ballroom on the Strand and (I think) The Pavillion Hemel Hempstead.
Very ahead of their times with their mixing of genres and some recent groups...Florence and the Machine and Bat for Lashes picking up in a 2008/9 fashion, the sound Curved Air had pioneered nearly forty years earlier.
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