Dantalian's Chariot

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Dantalian's Chariot
OriginLondon, England
Genres
Pat Donaldson
Colin Allen

Dantalian's Chariot were a British

Eric Burdon & The Animals and Summers joining Soft Machine .[1]

History

In November 1961,

Dantalion, in the mediaeval book on witchcraft, The Lesser Key of Solomon.[6] The band made their first live appearance at the Windsor National Blues Festival in August 1967, which also featured the debut public performance of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, as well as performances by The Nice, Arthur Brown, and Ten Years After. The band rapidly gained a strong live reputation and their light show, which had been brought over from San Francisco, was regarded as one of the best in London at that time.[4] To heighten the effect of the spectacular light show being projected onto them, the musicians would all dress in white robes, with their instruments and equipment also painted white.[6][7][8]

From the band's first recording sessions,

UK Singles Chart. However, the song's reputation has grown over the years, prompting journalist Nick James to note in Record Collector magazine that "nowadays, the record is rightly regarded as one of the essential works of the era."[6]

EMI subsequently dropped the band, disapproving of Money's psychedelic direction. Dantalian's Chariot then appeared in the low-budget movie

LP, which mostly consisted of new songs written by Money and Summers. However, the record label rejected these recordings, and instead put together an album of previously recorded tracks, which they released in 1968 as Transition, crediting the album to Zoot Money as a solo artist, rather than Dantalian's Chariot.[1][6]

The band broke up in April 1968,

Stone The Crows, and Focus, while bassist Pat Donaldson later worked with Sandy Denny, among others.[6]

The song "Madman Running Through the Fields" was covered by Eric Burdon & the Animals while both Zoot Money and Andy Summers were members of the band.[10] The track appeared on the Love Is album which was released in December 1968 by the record company MGM.[10]

In 1996, the album Chariot Rising, featuring ten of the tracks recorded by Dantalian's Chariot in 1967, was released by the Wooden Hill label.[11] Over the years, the song "Madman Running Through the Fields" has appeared on many compilation albums, including Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts from the British Empire and Beyond, 1964–1969, the second box set of the Nuggets series.[12] "Madman Running Through the Fields" appears as number 28 in Record Collector's "100 Greatest Psychedelic Records", a list in chronological order.[13]

Band members

Discography

Singles

  • "Madman Running Through the Fields"/"Sun Came Bursting Through My Cloud" (Columbia (EMI) DB 8260) 1967
  • "Madman Running Through the Fields"/"Sun Came Bursting Through My Cloud" (French Columbia (EMI) CF 123) 1967

Albums

  • Chariot Rising (Wooden Hill WHCD005) 1996 (Originally recorded 1967)

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Dantalian's Chariot Biography".
    Allmusic
    . Retrieved 27 April 2010.
  2. ^
    ISBN 0-470-28240-1
    .
  3. ISBN 0-946719-84-5
    .
  4. ^
    ISBN 0-85323-919-3
    .
  5. ^
    ISBN 0-600-57602-7
    .
  6. ^ a b c d e f James, Nick (June 2010). "Madmen Running Through the Fields - The Brief Psych Life of Dantalian's Chariot". Record Collector (376). London: 30–33.
  7. ^ "Frieze Magazine - Light Laboratories". Frieze Magazine. Archived from the original on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
  8. ^ "The Official Zoot Money Website". Archived from the original on 25 October 2010. Retrieved 1 July 2010.
  9. ^ "Popdown Pops Back Up – One Man's Mission to Find a Lost Film". Wiped News. Archived from the original on 4 August 2010. Retrieved 30 June 2010.
  10. ^
    Allmusic
    . Retrieved 30 July 2010.
  11. ^ "Chariot Rising album review".
    Allmusic
    . Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  12. Allmusic
    . Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  13. ^ "Record Collector's 100 Greatest Psychedelic Records [British]". Archived from the original on 1 February 2013. Retrieved 7 November 2012.

External links

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