EARTHBOUND - Liberated Lady 12inch ANALOGY PROG PSYCH

	£		28
	$		37

Earthbound
Liberated Lady

Super RARE 12inch EP even RARER
With insert!

1979

Archway Records CUS 269

Laminated Cover

Made in U.K.

cat. AR 17945

Side 1:

1) Liberated Lady

Side 2:

1) Song For South Kensington

2) The Robot

ANALOGY HISTORY:

Even if four of the five musicians were foreigners, Analogy absolutely deserve a place here along with the other "Italian pop" groups, having spent their whole career in Italy and having released there their records. The group was formed by four German musicians living in northern Italy, near Varese (three of them had grown up there, Thurn-Mithoff arrived in 1968), along with two Italians, keyboardist Nicola Pankoff (originating from Arona) and bassist Mauro Rattaggi.

The initial name was The Joice, but it was changed by mistake by their record company to Yoice, and it was with this name that their first single was released by the small Produzioni Ventotto label, distributed by Messaggerie Musicali.
In 1972, when Rattaggi quit and rhythm guitarist Schoene switched to bass, the group changed its name to Analogy, and had the chance to play some very important concerts like The Caracalla Pop Festival in Rome (first concert with the new name) or the Be-In in Naples, though they remained totally unknown outside Italy, apart from Switzerland.
Their only album, very rare and interesting, shows some rock-blues influences, with the nice voice of singer Jutta Nienhaus in strong evidence, and had a distinctive cover with the group members all naked.

In 1973 keyboardist Nicola Pankoff left the group, though he kept playing while also dedicating to painting, he was replaced by flutist Rocco Abate.
The group split around 1974, after more than 250 concerts in Italy and around 60 in Switzerland.

Jutta Taylor-Nienhaus and Martin Thurn-Mithoff collaborated with  Franco Battiato on his Sulle Corde di Aries 1973 album, with the musician/composer Paolo Ciarchi and  also with director/actor Dario Fo's Collettivo Teatrale La Comune in 1974 (they appear on a cassette called Cammina, cammina).

These two musicians then moved to England, where they formed a new band called Earthbound in 1975. The original group split in 1977 and soon reformed with new musicians, only releasing a rare EP, with a style not far from Curved Air but with even some influences from the then popular new-wave. It's odd to notice that Nienhaus and Thurn introduced themselves in the press information sheets as past members of the "Italian group Analogy". During their career Earthbound also played some dates in Northern Italy, and split at the end of 1979.

The same two musicians recorded in 1980 in London an ambitious symphonic-influenced opera, The suite, which had been composed and played live since 1974, but this was only released for the first time in 1993, again under the old name Analogy.
A new CD, released in 1996 by the German Ohrwaschl label but recorded in Italy, includes reworkings of old songs by a line-up including the above duo of Nienhaus and Thurn and original bassist Rattaggi with other musicians. The album was intended as a homage to drummer Mops Nienhaus, passed away some years before.

In 2010 the band's career was celebrated by a 3 CD box set featuring the complete Analogy and Earthbound recorded works, including many unreleased studio and live tracks.

The first live appearance of the band after many years was in 2003 when Analogy (Jutta Taylor-Nienhaus, Martin Thurn-Mithoff, Mauro Rattaggi and Geoff Cooper, second drummer of Earthbound) played God’s Own Land in a club near Saarbrücken for Jutta's 50th birthday. It was the first concert ever by Analogy in Germany!
Later on, in February 2010, four of the band members (Jutta and Martin with Mauro Rattaggi and Rocco Abate) along with Dick Brett and Scott Hunter from Earthbound played together for a single show on the occasion of the launch of their The complete works box set.

The Earthbound single is rather rare, having been issued in 2000 copies each for both the 7-inch and 12-inch versions, the latter has an extra track. The 12" version has a laminated cover and an insert.

No bootleg reissues exist.

COVER

EXCELLENT

VINYL

EXCELLENT

BEAUTIFUL SHEEN

LOOKS LIKE IT HAS ONLY BEEN PLAYED A HANDFUL OF TIMES.

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