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BT 5011R-LP
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$24.00
PREORDER
RELEASE DATE: 10/10/2025
"The Beatles, Pink Floyd, David Bowie -- cousins Francesca Garnett and Lisa Bankoff rubbed shoulders with them all in the late 1960s, and perhaps it should come as no surprise that a little stardust rubbed off on the two girls. Musically ambitious, they came close to being signed to the Beatles' Apple label (although John, Paul, and Ringo were in favor, George passed, thus vetoing the deal) before being taken under the wing of Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason and signing to Monty Babson's fledgling Morgan Bluetown label. Morgan Bluetown was a side project to the Morgan Music studio, which in the late 1960s was one of the UK's top studios. Wil Malone, who has gone on to be one of the world's most highly regarded arrangers, having worked on the Verve's Bitter Sweet Symphony and Adele's 19 album amongst many others, and Mal Luker, who went on to engineer for the likes of the Kinks, Amon Duul, and Placido Domingo. Chimera was in the wonderful position of being able to draw on the studio's home-grown talent and to augment this with established stars such as their manager Nick Mason, who not only produced many of their recordings, but played drums on 'The Grail' and brought along his Pink Floyd colleague, Rick Wright, to play harpsichord on 'Lady With Bullets In Her Hair.' Future Fleetwood Mac guitarist Bob Weston also played on a number of tracks. Due to a variety of mishaps, the album wasn't released at the time, although apparently Hipgnosis, designers of Pink Floyd (and many other) album sleeves, had prepared a front cover for it, and the musical underground was rife with rumors of this legendary lost masterpiece of acid folk/baroque psychedelia. But now, at last, the album is out on its originally intended label."
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MBT 011CD
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"Legendary 'lost' masterpiece featuring members of Pink Floyd on CD with bonus tracks. Chimera or Chimaera's 1969 album remastered from original master tapes with eleven additional previously unreleased bonus tracks. Features Pink Floyd's Nick Mason - part producer and drums on The Grail, Rick Wright - keys on Lady with Bullets... and Fleetwood Mac's Bob Weston on guitar."
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