For those not in the know, between Spooky Tooth and Matthews Southern Comfort, Andrew Leigh recorded a solo album that moves from pastoral folk and country-rock to Mellotron haze, electric sitar and the nine-minute Up The U.S.A.

First released in 1970, Magician features Kevin Westlake, Reggie King, Gary Farr, Gordon Jackson, Mike Kellie and Gary Wright among its guests.

Newly remastered by Prof. Stoned, this edition includes the complete album and the session outtake The Passing, previously issued in 2011. The illustrated 12-page booklet features Leigh’s own account, photographs and period ephemera. For fans of Spooky Tooth, Matthews Southern Comfort, British psychedelic folk

1. Magician
2. Get Myself Together
3. Goin’ Out To The West
4. Solitaire
5. Windy Baker Street
6. Take Me Back
7. Leaving Song
8. Fresh Brown Eggs
9. Up The U.S.A.
10. The Passing

A composer and multi-instrumentalist who builds music like a filmmaker, Alex opens his new festive recording on the alt-pop bounce of the titular Magician and the languishing beauty of Get Myself Together and they are in turn backed by the harmonica-driven Goin’ Out To The West, the pleasing sounds of Solitaire, before the low key balladry ambiance of Winndy Baker Street is upon us.

Along next is the totally rocking guitar beauty Take Me Back and the jaunty pop sounds of Leaving Song and then we are gifted the countrified romp of Fresh Brown Eggs and the guitar-driven, reverb rocker Up The U.S.A., the classic set coming to a close on the veritably shimmering, melodiously mid-tempo bonus track The Passing.

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