Chimera were formed in the late 1960's by West Country girls Francesca Garnett
and Lisa Bankoff.
The line up of musicians supporting the girls often changed and among them
featured artists such as Mal Luker (the Smoke), Bob Weston (Fleetwood Mac),
Nick Mason/Rick Wright (the Pink Floyd) and Wil Malone (Orange Bicycle &
later arranger for The Verve, Simple Minds, Massive Attack etc).
The songs represented here are all mastered from a cassette tape which
is all that survives of the original recordings (Paul Martin - June 2003).
Chimera were signed to Morgan Bluetown records and as so often happens
with record labels they stalled on releases (actually they didn't release
anything), this led to members of the band becoming disheartened with what
should have been a straightforward fairly successful project, without an
impending release several musicians saw little future in Chimera and
they disbanded leaving an array of classic late 60's progressive,
acid-folk songs unreleased.
Nick Mason from Pink Floyd was producer for the band and subtle
similarities can be heard on Pink Floyd's later album
"Dark Side Of The Moon", *especially the guitar work on Peru.(unknown reviewer)
Enjoy
Frank
Flac & mp3@320
Thanks very much Frank!
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