Bruford - Seems Like A Lifetime Ago 1977-1980 (6 CD, 2017/FLAC)


Titled Seems Like A Lifetime Ago, 1977-1980, the 8-disc box set features Bruford in collaboration with Dave Stewart (Egg, Hatfield & the North, National Health) on keyboards, Jeff Berlin (a fine American jazz-rock bassist) and Allan Holdsworth (Soft Machine, UK) & ‘The Unknown’ John Clark on guitar. Mostly instrumental, the music featured occasional vocals by Annette Peacock and Berlin.

CD 1 / Feels Good To Me (1977):

01 Beelzebub
02 Back To The Beginning
03 Seems Like A Lifetime Ago: Part One
04 Seems Like A Lifetime Ago: Part Two
05 Sample And Hold
06 Feels Good To Me
07 Either End Of August
08 If You Can’t Stand The Heat…
09 Springtime In Siberia
10 Adios A La Pasada (Goodbye To The Past)

CD 2 / One Of A Kind (1978):

01 Hell’s Bells
02 One Of A Kind: Part One
03 One Of A Kind: Part Two
04 Travels With Myself – And Someone Else
05 Fainting In Coils
06 Five G
07 The Abingdon Chasp
08 Forever Until Sunday
09 The Sahara Of Snow: Part One
10 The Sahara Of Snow: Part Two
Bonus Track:
11 Five G (Out-Take)

CD 3 & CD 4 / 1980 – Gradually Going Tornado + The Bruford Tapes:

1980 Gradually Going Tornado
01 Age Of Information
02 Gothic 17
03 Joe Frazier
04 Q.E.D.
05 The Sliding Floor
06 Palewell Park
07 Plans For J.D.
08 Land’s End

1980 – The Bruford Tapes
01 Hell’s Bells
02 Sample And Hold
03 Fainting In Coils
04 Travels With Myself – And Someone Else
05 Beelzebub
06 The Sahara Of Snow: Part One
07 The Sahara Of Snow: Part Two
08 One Of A Kind: Part Two
09 Five G
Bonus Track
10 Manacles (Live)

CD 5 & CD 6 / 1980 Live at the Venue + 2017 4th Album Rehearsal Sessions:

1980 – Live at the Venue
01 Hell’s Bells
02 Sample And Hold
03 Land’s End
04 Joe Frazier
05 Gothic 17
06 Plans For J.D.
07 Age Of Information
08 Five G

2017 – 4th Album Rehearsal Sessions
01 Hell’s Midriff
02 Sketch 1
03 Restless Spirit
04 Hope
05 Consequential Circuits
06 Matching Green
07 Should’ve Been Something
08 There Is No Reward (Instrumental)
09 Hooligan Juice 1
10 Hooligan Juice 2
11 Flat Bells, Claptrap And Trills
12 Sketch 2
13 Bedrock
14 Plotting The Heavens
15 Marrowbones And Cleavers
16 Prophet Motive
17 Sketch 1 (Reprise)
18 Saturday, No School