Super RARE Australian group “SUN” featuring Renee Geyer. I’ve never been lucky enough to come across this album in all my years of digging for vinyl but it is out there and meant to be pretty dam good. Rare, Rare, Rare Ausy funk!!
Sun 1972
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| Studio album by Sun (with Renée Geyer) | ||||
| Released | October 1972 | |||
| Genre | Jazz rock | |||
| Length | 47.59 | |||
| Label | RCA Records | |||
| Producer | Horst Liepolt | |||
| Sun (with Renée Geyer) chronology | ||||
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Originally from Wollongong, a town on the South Coast of NSW Keith Shadwick, Gary Norwell, Henry Correy, Ian Smith and blues guitarist Allan Vander Linden formed a blues band called King Biscuit which play the universities and nightclub circuit in Sydney in 1970-71. King Biscuit changed its name to Sun with the departure of Vander Linden. Sun evolved into a jazz rock band that played the wine bars and many other major venues in Sydney, Australia during the early 1970s. Their main claims to fame are their association with Renee Geyer who sang on their album and the fact that they were one of the first jazz-rock groups in Australia, predating the better-known Ayers Rock by several years.
Sun 1972, their only commercial recording, was released by the Australian subsidiary of RCA Records and produced by jazz entrepreneur Horst Liepolt, who later moved to New York and founded the famous Sweet Basil nightclub. The LP was financially unsuccessful (and has not been reissued) but because of its rarity it now fetches high prices.
After Ian Smith left the bandRenee Geyer was the singer for twelve months of the band’s existence and performed on the album.
