Julian Jay Savarin - 1970 - Waiters On The Dance (full album)

The brainchild of this musical project was Julian SAVARIN who was born in Dominica and moved to Britian in the early Sixties. He was impressed by the London music scene and decided to form his own band to start his ideas about a SF trilogy he was working on. He started rehearsing with John Dover (bass), Del Watkins (guitar), Jack Drummond (drums) and Cathy Pruden (vocals). In june '70 the label Youngblood released their first album "A Time Before This". But due to problems of management, promotion and money JULIAN'S TREATMENT had to demise. Julian returned to writing, concentrating on the second part of his trilogy he had in mind. Two years later Julian was approached by Birth records to make a new album. Only bass player John Dover came from the old line-up, other musicians of JULIAN'S new band were Nigel Jenkins (guitar), Roger Odell (drums) and Jo Meek (vocals). In '73 the second album "Waiters On The Dance" came out, credited by Julian J. SAVARIN. Again, there was a total lack of promotion and exposure. Nowadays these two albums are very healthy priced collector items. But we don't have to worry about what happened to JULIAN, he has became a famous writer. First in Japan and later worldwide he succesfully published lots of novels (for instance: Waterhole, The Quiraing List, Naja and Hammerhead).

The best way to get an impression of this highly acclaimed "cultband" is the "See For Miles" re-release CD "A time before this..plus" ('90). It contains 18 tracks, spanning the period 1970-1973. The music is build upon the expressive and powerful vocals of Cathy Pruden and the compelling keyboards of Julian (lots of organ and some Mellotron). Some songs feature fine electric guitarwork. Imagine a psychedelic/gothic EARTH & FIRE but at first this is very unique music and it deserves a wider audience.

Line-up / Musicians
- Lady Jo Meek / vocals
- Julian Jay Savarin / story, arrangements, keyboards
- John Dover / bass
- Nigel "Zed" Jenkins / guitar
- Roger Odell / drums

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