Artist: Jade Warrior
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
At Peace
Year: 2001
Tracks: 3
Kites
Year: 1999
Tracks: 12
Breathing The Storm
Year: 1995
Tracks: 9
Distant Echoes
Year: 1994
Tracks: 9
Released
Year: 1988
Tracks: 8
Horizen
Year: 1984
Tracks: 6
Way Of The Sun
Year: 1978
Tracks: 9
Waves
Year: 1975
Tracks: 2
Fifth Element
Year: 1975
Tracks: 8
Floating World
Year: 1974
Tracks: 10
Eclipse
Year: 1973
Tracks: 7
Last Autumn's Dream
Year: 1972
Tracks: 10
Jade Warrior
Year: 1971
Tracks: 10
Jade Warrior was an eclecticist group light-emitting diode by Jon Field and Tony Duhig, wHO met during the sixties while operative in a manufacturing plant. The deuce did not immediately just worn-out several years up their musical skills, Field on percussion, Duhig on guitar. They at last created a group named July, with Tom Newman, Chris Jackson and Alan James. Newman would later engineer (Microphone Oldfield's landmark album Vasiform Bells. July released one album of character psychedelic pop up in 1968, and so folded.
Afterwards the death of July, Duhig traveled to Iran, where he met guitar player and future bandmate Glyn Havard. Field remained in England, well-read to play flute and created the Jade Warrior individuality while writing music for a friend's dance play. Jade warriors were the samurai of ancient Japan, polite killers substantially schooled in humanistic discipline ranging from poetry to hit. Duhig and Havard returned from the Middle East and contacted Field. The trinity adopted the Jade Warrior identify. Duhig and Field created most of the music, with Havard playing bass and tributary lyrics and vocals. This initial organization, supplemented at multiplication by guitar player David Duhig and drummer Alan Price, signed with Vertigo Records and released ternary albums in trey days: Jade Warrior, Released and Last Autumn's Dream. The band's level-headed combined a straight rock'n'roll expressive style with the sudden tempo changes and experimental instrumentation typical of early '70s artistic creation rock bands. Jade Warrior highly-developed a firm but small following. Vertigo canceled its sign up, although the band had recorded almost deuce albums worth of follow-up material. Most of this do work was squelched for 25 days. The albums Eclipse and Fifth Element were recorded in 1973 only not released until 1998.
The mathematical group was on the verge of breakage up when Island Records offered a ternary album manage that eventually stretched to quaternary records. But the change in labels reflected a similar shift in the band's sound. Island wanted to underscore instrumentals. This left little elbow room for Havard, wHO left the band. Jade Warrior became a dyad, as Duhig and Field played numerous instruments to realize their progressively exotic musical vision. The medicine became more and more dreamlike, pushing a igniter wind sound to the vanguard. During the Island geological period of 1974 through 1978, Jade Warrior albums featured myriad percussive sounds just drum kits were rarely in evidence. The band liked to create a soothing, ethereal feel, then shatter it with gongs and out of the blue raucous electric guitar, commonly from guest David Duhig, Tony's brother. The albums featured episodic renown guests such as Steve Winwood, only Jade Warrior had a style of its possess. The band's maraud into what would later be tagged earthly concern and ambient music parallels the excursions of Brian Eno, wHO described Floating World as an important album.
During the eighties, Field and Tony Duhig released a couple of albums, Purview (1984) and At Peace (1989) only couldn't rise beyond cult condition. Duhig was under a big manage of strain during much of this menstruation. He opened a recording studio, mortgaging his house for pecuniary resource. The studio flopped and Duhig's loaner foreclosed the house.
Champaign became a session instrumentalist, merely afterwards coming together bassist Dave Sturt, he took steps to revive Jade Warrior. He recruited guitar player Colin Henson. Tony Duhig was around to repay the flock when he died of a affectionateness attack. Field and the others carried on, cathartic deuce albums on Red Hot Records, Breathing the Storm and Distant Echoes, the latter featuring a client appearing by previous King Crimson violinist David Cross. The band began another album in 1996, only it has never been finished. Field, Henson and Sturt confused to alive in different parts of England and showed no inclination to destination the visualise.
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