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Chimera - Chimera
Tenth Planet TP 054

Limited to 1000 copies (104/1000)

Tracks:

  1. Come Into The Garden*
     Interlude #1
  2. The Grail
     Interlude #2
  3. Sad Song For Winter
     Interlude #3
  4. Mary's Mystry*
  5. Lady With Bullets In Her Hair
  6. Black Hat Babe*
  7. Song In E*
  8. Episode At Telegraph Hill*
  9. Morning Sounds
 10. Peru*

All tracks written by Lisa Bankoff
Tracks recorded 1969 except* 1970

Produced by Mal Luker
except* produced by Nick Mason
Orchestral arrangements by Wil Malone

Personel:
Lisa Bankoff - guitar (tracks 2,3,9) and vocals on all tracks
Francesca Garnett - vocals on all tracks except "Sad Song For Winter"
Mal Luker - guitar and keyboards on "Sad Song For Winter"
Bob Weston - guitar on tracks marked *
Nick South - bass on tracks marked *
Roy Temro - drums on "Mary's Mystery"
Nick Mason - drums on "The Grail"
Rick Wright - keyboards on "Lady With Bullets In Her Hair"
Ian Milne - keyboards on "The Grail"

Comments:
An obscure band whose Peru, features distinctive high-pitched vocals somewhere between Fairport Convention and Trees. Amazingly they cut 20 tracks for the label
yet had nothing released. An album's worth of material was compiled in the '80s for possible release but it too remains unissued (not anymore since this is it).
Tracks like Come Into The Garden, The Grail and Sad Song For Winter showcase Bankoff's delightful vocals augmented by some fine guitar and sometimes melodramatic piano and keyboard work. It would be great to see this released.

Bob Weston later played with Fleetwood Mac, Nick South (ex-Alexis Korner), went on to play with Elke Brookes and Roy Temro sadly died some time ago. Lisa Bankoff
was the groups songwriter:- "The band was managed by Pink Floyd's Nick Mason, and both he and Rick Wright were featured on some of the tracks. eg. The Grail, The Game and possibly, I Met A Stranger Once. Even the Floyd's roadie Alan Styles played Sax on one track. The project fell to pieces mainly because I had a car accident shortly after the recordings were finished and couldn't walk for a couple of years. Our producer was called Mal Luker."

Reputedly, Cliff Wade and Danny Beckerman were involved in some way too, although this may be incorrect.

Lisa Bankoff now lives in Perth, W. Australia and still writes songs and plays "a little bit here and there". She and Francesca have recently written a book about
their life in London during the late '60s / early '70s called "Making It! Famous Names and Silly Girls".

Compilation appearances include: Peru on Morgan Blue Town (LP) and Best And The Rest Of British Psychedelia (CD), Chimera (LP)

About Chimera

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.

Francesca and Lisa have since published a book 'Making It:
Famous Names And Silly Girls', there was a website
chimeramakingit.com but sadly this no longer exists,
'Peru' was released on a "bargain bin" album 'The Best Of &
The Rest Of British Psychedelia' on Action Replay records in 1991,
this is now very difficult to find on both cassette and CD. Mary's
Mystery and Peru also featured on 'House Of Many Windows: Psychedelic
Pstones V.3' compilation released 2003.

Finally in 2006, Tenth Planet records managed to release an albums
worth of material, Chimera - Chimera (TP054) was released 37 years
late on 190gm audiophile vinyl only, it was limited to 1000 copies.
This very important release features a full colour sleeve and an
insert that details the full Chimera story with quotes and photos.
We can only guess what would have become of the Chimera had things
gone more smoothly with Morgan Bluetown, the Tenth Planet release
has opened a door 37 years back into the future and with enough interest
who knows, maybe even a CD could magically appear. If you enjoy the songs
featured here please seek out the album on vinyl, there are other songs
which deserve a listen.  
 
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