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Third Ear Band

Third Ear Band were a British musical group formed in London during the mid-1960s. Their line-up initially consisted of violin, cello, oboe and percussion. Most of their performances were instrumental and partly improvised. Nevertheless, their records for the Harvest label, Alchemy and Third Ear Band, achieved some popularity, after which they found some success creating soundtrack music for films.

Third Ear Band were a British musical group formed in London during the mid-1960s. Their line-up initially consisted of violin, cello, oboe and percussion. Most of their performances were instrumental and partly improvised. Nevertheless, their records for the Harvest label, Alchemy and Third Ear Band, achieved some popularity, after which they found some success creating soundtrack music for films.

Alchemy
The 1st release by Third Ear Band from the UK. Shorter tracks than found on later albums, the band here makes excursions into improvised chamber music. Guitar meets recorder and violin in a disharmonic free jazz summit that fades away before building into a trancy mini-crescendo. Reissued with a pasted gatefold hardboard sleeve.
Druid One - Live at Essen Pop & Blues Festival 1970
Big Tip! From 1969 to 1972, Third Ear Band released three albums on the progressive Harvest label, of which "Music From Macbeth" (1972) was the best known and most commercially successful. On April 24, 1970, the Third Ear Band performed at the 2nd Essen Pop & Blues Festival. For some reason, they did not appear on the official poster for the event or in the festival program. The line-up was packed with acts like The Flock, Ekseption, Rhinocerous, The Groundhogs, It"s A Beautiful Day and the stil…
Elements 1970-1971
* Original gatefold artwork. Insert with notes and images. * Eerie, dissonant and hypnotic, Third Ear Band sounded like no one else on the British underground scene. Their second album - often referred to as 'Elements' - was released in June 1970. Spanning classical, jazz and folk, with clear original influences, it's a lost classic that's reissued here in its original gatefold artwork and with an insert offering images and background info. Formed in 1968 around a nucleus of Glen Sweeney (percus…
Mosaics: The Albums 1969-1972
* New Re-mastered 3CD box of the classic albums by Third Ear Band released between 1969 & 1972*  Third Ear Band emerged in 1967 from the Ladbroke Grove/Notting Hill counterculture scene.  Saxophonist/flautist Dave Tomlin teamed up with jazz drummer Glen Sweeney and bassist Roger Bunn to form an ensemble with the unlikely moniker Giant Sun Trolley to participate in the free improvisation sessions that took place at the end of the Thursday club nights at the famed UFO club.  Even in these early da…
Macbeth
New Re-mastered & Expanded Release with four previously unreleased bonus tracks. Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the release of a new re-mastered and expanded edition of the classic 1972 soundtrack album to Roman Polanski’s gritty film of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”. Originally released on EMI’s Harvest label in March 1972, the album featured a new line-up of Third Ear Band featuring Paul Minns (oboe and recorder), Glen Sweeney (drums), Paul Buckmaster (cello and bass guitar), Simon…
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