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Live At The Padget Rooms, Penarth > Man

Artist: Man
Label: United Artists
Catalog#: USP 100
Format: LP, Limited
Country: United Kingdom
Released: 1972

Living In The Past > Jethro Tull

Artist: Jethro Tull
Label: Chrysalis
Catalog#: 2CH 1035
Format: Vinyl
Country: United States
Released: 1972-07
Strawberry Bricks Entry: 
This double-album offers a chronological retrospective of Jethro Tull's career to date, compiling non-album singles and recordings from 1968-1971. However, with only four tracks from the previous studio albums, many (myself included) consider it an album of nearly all-new material. So given the bulky proposition of Thick As A Brick, released earlier in the year, many also found Living In The Past much easier to digest. In fact, the album did break into the Top 10 on both sides of the Atlantic.

Lunch > Audience

Artist: Audience
Label: Elektra
Catalog#: EKS-75026
Format: Vinyl
Country: US
Released: 1972

Machine Head > Deep Purple

Artist: Deep Purple
Label: Warner Bros. Records
Catalog#: BS 2607
Format: Vinyl
Country: United States
Released: 1972

Made In England > Atomic Rooster

Artist: Atomic Rooster
Label: Elektra
Catalog#: EKS-75039
Format: Vinyl
Country: United States
Released: 1972-10
Strawberry Bricks Entry: 
Rather than rest his fate on Vincent Crane's whim, vocalist Pete French took an offer to join Cactus after a US tour in early 1972. Undeterred, Crane called a recently ex-Colosseum Chris Farlowe to join Atomic Rooster. The new band previewed material from the album on a particularly excellent set for the BBC in June, recorded at the Paris Theatre. The resulting Made In England album is again another strong effort, and one quite novel in the timeline. Here Crane ups the mixture of soul, something almost unheard of in progressive circles.

Malesch > Agitation Free

Artist: Agitation Free
Label: Vertigo
Catalog#: 6360 607
Format: Vinyl
Country: Germany
Released: 1972-06
Strawberry Bricks Entry: 
Agitation Free's roots were in the same creative scene that most bands in late-60s Berlin shared. The group was founded in 1967 by bassist Michael Günther and guitarist Lutz "Lüül" Ulbrich. By the time their ranks had congealed enough to record their debut album, drummer Christopher Franke had already departed to Tangerine Dream, and guitarist Ax Genrich to Guru Guru. By 1971, keyboardist Michael Hoenig, guitarist Jörg Schwenke and drummer Burghard Rausch had joined Günther and Ulbrich, and teamed up with avant-garde composer Thomas Kessler and his Berlin studio.

Manfred Mann's Earth Band > Manfred Mann's Earth Band

Artist: Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Label: Polydor
Catalog#: PD 5015
Format: Vinyl
Country: United States
Released: 1972-01-24

Matching Mole > Matching Mole

Artist: Matching Mole
Label: CBS
Catalog#: S 64850
Format: Vinyl
Country: United Kingdom
Released: 1972-04
Strawberry Bricks Entry: 
Matching Mole was Robert Wyatt's post-Soft Machine group, its name a play on the French translation of Soft Machine, "machine molle." Wyatt first managed to draw keyboardist and fellow Cantabrian Dave Sinclair from Caravan, then continued to recruit a first-rate band: bassist Bill MacCormick was previously in Quiet Sun and guitarist Phil Miller came from Delivery, while Nucleus' pianist David MacRae rounded out the lineup as a second keyboardist.

Matching Mole's Little Red Record > Matching Mole

Artist: Matching Mole
Label: Columbia
Catalog#: KC 32148
Format: Vinyl
Country: United States
Released: 1972-10

Mediterranean Tales (Across The Waters) > Triumvirat

Artist: Triumvirat
Label: Harvest, Electrola Gesellschaft m.b.H.
Catalog#: 1C 062-29 441, 1C 062-29 441
Format: Vinyl
Country: Germany
Released: 1972