Lightyears Away/Thundermother - Astral Navigations (1971 UK folk/prog private press - FULL ALBUM)

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*Lightyears Away/Thundermother - Astral Navigations [Holyground HG 114 - 1971]*
*LIGHTYEARS AWAY*
Fourth Coming [0:00]
Path Of Stone [5:08]
Windows Of Limited Time/The Astral Navigator [8:43]
Yesterday [10:37]
Today (North Country Cinderella) [13:44]
Tomorrow (Buffalo) [16:24]

*THUNDERMOTHER*
Someday [20:39]
Country Line [34:10]
Boogie Music [35:07]
_NOTE: this is a rip of the 1989 reissue_

Astral Navigations was a British psychedelic folk/rock disc, released in the 1971. 2 bands took part in production of this disc:
Personnel: (Lightyears Away)
BRIAN CALVERT vcls, piano TED HEPWORTH drms BILL NELSON gtr BRIAN WILSON bs and other guests

Personnel: (Thundermother)DAVID JOHN vcls AFRED KELLY drms ADAVE MILLEN gtr AFRANK NEWBOULD bs A

These two bands share a side each of this album which is a nice mixture of folk and psychedelia with lots of fuzz guitar. A very difficult record to find now, the original came with a poster cover and booklet and the reissue came with a booklet and was lavishly repackaged. The five Lightyears Away tracks are mostly quite folky and melodic with pleasant male vocals and the occasional female voice too. The exception is Yesterday which begins with a recording of a space launch which leads into lots of fuzz guitar work.
Thundermother were a studio creation and their contribution was recorded over a weekend (mostly on acid). They were an amalgam of various Preston artists:- David John (David John and The Mood), Fred Kelly (Rare Bird), Dave Millen (The Puppets) and Frank Newbould (Little Free Rock). To my ears the three Thundermother tracks are better. Today, Tomorrow, Someday and Country Lines are both notable for some discordant instrumental work whilst on the first cut the vocals are rather folky. The magnum opus, though, is the extended and highly experimental finale Boogie Music, which is imaginative with lots of good fuzzy guitar work - one of Holyground's finest moments.
Thundermother have also been the focus of another CD retrospective No Red Rowan (Kissing Spell KSG 003) 1995, which features material recorded between '70-'71. You can also Thundermother's Boogie Music and Rock Me Babe on Loose Routes.
Bill Nelson went on to found Be-Bop Deluxe.
(From Tapestry Of Delights)