FAMILY

JMN

Anyway ESOTERIC Leicester linchpins’ fourth album, expanded and remastered. A rare example of a single album comprising a live and a studio side (Pink Floyd’s Ummagumma was a double LP, pedants), Family’s transitional 1970 release Anyway leant towards a heavier, at times almost feral sound. The front cover’s reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci’s painting Mortars With Explosive Projectiles was a record company choice, but it certainly chimed with the LP’s incendiary music. Relatively new recruits John ‘Poli’ Palmer (keyboards, flute, vibraphone) and John Weider (bass, violin) had already supplanted bassist Ric Grech and saxophonist Jim King. They also proved versatile foils for frontman Roger Chapman and guitarist John ‘Charley’ Whitney, even if the radical changes wrought to Family’s earlier sound took fans by surprise. The live tracks, recorded at Croydon’s…

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