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1) The oldest is a UK Acid Folk/Baroque Psychedelia group which recorded a self-titled album in 1969-70.
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).
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.
In 2002, 32 years after recording, the album “Chimera” was remastered and finally released on a Tenth Planet label.
“Legendary lost masterpiece of late 60s acid folk/baroque psychedelia, the unreleased 1969 album by Chimera – featuring future Fleetwood Mac guitarist Bob Weston – was partly produced by Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason who, like Rick Wright, makes a cameo appearance.
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