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Andromeda (10) – Andromeda

Label:	Green Tree Records – GTR 024
Format:	CD, Album, Reissue
Country:	Germany
Released:	1994
Genre:	Rock
Style:	Prog Rock, Psychedelic Rock

Tracklist

1	Too Old Written-By – Cann*	4:58
2	Day Of The Change Written-By – Cann*	5:02
3	And Now The Sun Shines Written-By – Cann*	4:00
	Turns To Dust Written-By – Cann*	(6:49)
4.I	Discovery	3:35
4.II	Sanctury	1:44
4.III	Determination	1:30
	Return To Sanity Written-By – Cann*	(8:20)
5.I	Breakdown	2:15
5.II	Hope	5:35
5.III	Conclusion	0:40
6	The Reason Written-By – Hawksworth*	3:32
7	I Can Stop The Sun Written-By – Cann*	2:10
	When To Stop Written-By – Cann*	(8:32)
8.I	The Traveller	3:40
8.II	Turning Point	1:52
8.III	Journey's End	3:00
	Additional Tracks
9	Go Your Way Written-By – Cann*	3:03
10	Keep Out 'Cos I'm Dying Written-By – Hawksworth*	3:46
11	Garden Of Happiness Written-By – Cann*	3:11
12	Exodus Written-By – Trad.*	2:26
13	Journey's End Written-By – Cann*	3:03
14	Let's All Watch The Sky Fall Down Written-By – Cann*	4:03
15	Darkness Of Her Room Written-By – Cann*	5:10
16	See Into The Stars Written-By – Cann*	7:14

Companies, etc.

Record Company – TRC Records (2)
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – RCA Records
Copyright © – Repertoire Records
Copyright © – GTR Records
Manufactured By – Repertoire Special Projects
Glass Mastered At – DADC Austria

Credits

Arranged By, Producer – Andromeda (10)
Bass Guitar, Vocals – Mick Hawksworth
Design [Sleeve Design] – John Cann*
Drums – Ian McLane
Engineer – Eddie Offord*
Guitar, Vocals – John Cann*
Liner Notes – Mark Brennan
Photography By – Gered Mankowitz

Notes

Standard jewel case with a white tray and 6-panel foldout booklet

[Front]
Andromeda
Plus 8 Bonustracks

[Booklet]
Track 9
Single A-Side RCA 1854/1969
Track 10
Single B-Side RCA 1854/1969
Track 11
Previously unreleased
Track 12
Previously unreleased
Track 13
Different Mix
Track 14
Previously unreleased
Track 15
Previously unreleased
Track 16
Previously unreleased

℗ 1969 RCA Records
© 1994 GTR Records

Thanks to:
Eddie Offord: Engineer
Martin the tapeworm at Advision Sound Studios
London June 1969

[Back]
Green Tree Records
A division of TRC

℗ 1969 RCA Records
© 1994 Repertoire Records
Manufactured by Repertoire Special Projects
under exclusive arrangement.
Tracks 11,12,14,15,16 previously unreleased

[Disc]
Green Tree Records
A division of TRC

℗ 1969 RCA Records
© 1994 Repertoire Records

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode (Text): 4 015689 022423
Barcode (Scanned): 4015689022423
Label Code: LC 8065
Rights Society: GEMA
Matrix / Runout (Variant 1): GTR-024 15 A1 [DADC Austria logo]
Matrix / Runout (Variant 2): GTR-024 15 A2 [DADC Austria logo]

Other Versions (5 of 17)View All

	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
	Andromeda (LP, Album, Stereo)	RCA Victor	SF 8031	UK	1969
New Submission	Andromeda (LP, Album, Test Pressing, Stereo)	Air Studios	8803X44	UK	1969
Recently Edited	Andromeda (LP, Album, Reissue, Unofficial Release, Stereo)	Eclipse (19)	Eclipse 88 LP		1988
New Submission	Andromeda (CD, Album, Reissue, Unofficial Release)	Not On Label	Eclipse 88 CD	Europe	1988
New Submission	Andromeda (LP, Album, Reissue, Unofficial Release)	EMF (3)	8803X44		1990

Reviews

progshine Sep 13, 2014

Andromeda was a late 60's band that had John Cann (later he joined Atomic Rooster) in their line-up. They only released one album, the self-titled and amazing Andromeda (1969) by RCA Records.

Andromeda (1969) comes absolutelly soaked in Blues Rock, Proto Prog and Psychedelia and is, in many ways, the precursor of some bands.

Andromeda is completely Proto Prog in songs like the amazing opener 'Too Old', 'Turns To Dust', 'Return To Sanity' and 'When To Stop'.
In other hand tracks like 'Day Of The Change' and 'Return To Sanity' sounds as Black Sabbath. But remember that Black Sabbath only released their first album in 1970.
I could say that Tony Iommi was very aware of this band/album while Black Sabbath was writting their first album.

Andromeda (1969) also comes with high psychedelic colors of course (just look at the cover) in tracks like 'And Now The Sun Shines', the Cream influenced 'The Reason' and the folk driven 'I Can Stop The Sun'.

What we have in Andromeda (1969) is a beautiful and raw (recorded in less than a month) Proto Prog album with Blues Rock and Psychedelic colors. Everything packed with an amazing bass playing by Mick Hawksworth (that also played with Fuzzy Duck), solid drums by Ian McLane and loads of great guitars by John Cann and good vocals.

My CD version is the Repertoire Records 1994 version and has 8 bonus tracks.
Bonus tracks are 95% of the time, wasted time, a fan thing. They were not good enough to be on the original record and are still not good enough to be on re-editions too. Not different here.
We have some good tracks like 'Go Your Way' and 'Let's All Watch The Sky Fall Down'. But the rest is pretty much forgettable.

Too bad the band didn't survived to record a second album.