Nirvana - All of Us (1968)

Nirvana - All of Us

Here comes the British Nirvana. This is an album that has both prog and psychedelic sound. "Miami Masquerade" is my favorite, a beautiful song. Love the vocals on all songs. The complete album name is "The Existence of Chance Is Everything and Nothing While the Greatest Achievement Is the Living of Life, and so Say ALL OF US". Yes.

Album information:

01-Rainbow Chaser

02-Tiny Goddess

03-The Touchables (All Of Us)

04-Melanie Blue

05-Trapeze

06-The Show Must Go On

07-Girl In The Park

08-Miami Masquerade

09-Frankie The Great

10-You Can Try It

11-Everybody Loves The Clown

12-St.John's Wood Affair

13-Flashbulb (b-side single)

14-Oh! What A Performance (a-side single)

15-Darling Darlene (b-side single)

16-C Side Of Ocho Rios (b-side single)

Band information:

Nirvana was created as the performing arm of the London-based songwriting partnership of Irish musician Patrick Campbell-Lyons and Greek composer Alex Spyropoulos. On their recordings Campbell-Lyons and Spyropoulos supplied all the vocals. The instrumental work was primarily undertaken by top session musicians and orchestral musicians - with Campbell-Lyons providing a little guitar and Spyropoulos contributing some keyboards.

Musically, Campbell-Lyons and Spyropoulos blended myriad musical styles including rock, pop, folk, jazz, Latin rhythms and classical music, primarily augmented by baroque chamber-style arrangements to create a unique entity.

In October 1967, they released their first album: a concept album produced by Blackwell titled The Story of Simon Simopath. The album was arguably the first narrative concept album ever released, predating story-driven concept albums such as The Pretty Things' S.F. Sorrow (December 1968), The Who's Tommy (April 1969) and The Kinks' Arthur (September 1969).

Unable to perform their songs live as a duo and with the impending release of their first album, Campbell-Lyons and Spyropoulos decided to create a live performing ensemble and they recruited four musicians to enable them to undertake concerts and TV appearances. Though hired to be part of the live performance group rather than as band members, these four musicians were also included in the photograph alongside the core duo on the album cover of their first album to assist in projecting an image of a group rather than a duo. However they were not core founding members of the group and within a few months Nirvana had reverted to its original two-person lineup. The four musicians who augmented Campbell-Lyons and Spyropoulos on their live appearances and television shows for those few months were Ray Singer (guitar), Brian Henderson (bass), Sylvia A. Schuster (cello) and Michael Cole (French horn, viola).

In 1968, the duo recorded their second album, All Of Us, which featured a similar broad range of musical styles as their first album.

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