Andromeda: Turns To Dust - The Complete Andromeda, 5CD Box Set

• Definitive 5CD anthology of highly regarded late 60s British rock band.

• Includes their sole album and single, alternative versions, out-takes, previously unissued demos, a Radio 1 session and tracks from related bands.

Andromeda were formed in mid-1968 by guitarist, vocalist and chief songwriter John Cann after the gradual collapse of his previous band, mod/psych legends The Attack.

A John Peel session saw the trio briefly come under the DJ's wing before they signed to RCA.

Released in late 1969, their self-titled album attracted highly positive reviews, and is now regarded by many collectors as a definitive example of the nascent British hard rock sound.

But it failed to sell, and Andromeda imploded when Cann jumped ship to join Atomic Rooster, where he wrote and sang Top Five single 'Devil's Answer'.

While there have been numerous Andromeda compilations over the last 35 years, the five- CD set Turns To Dust: The Complete Andromeda brings everything under one roof, adding some previously unreleased acetates and correcting various long-standing errors of annotation, dates and titles.

The first four CDs collect everything recorded by the band, while Disc Five rounds up the pre-Andromeda story with tracks from The Attack and more obscure ventures, including two previously unissued cuts from the first outfit that Cann and bassist Mick Hawksworth had played in together, The Mailtown Blues Band.

While previous Andromeda compilations have optimistically claimed to be definitive, Turns To Dust is undoubtedly the final word on a legendary late 60s British rock band.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE

Original Andromeda RCA album/single plus BBC session

1  Too Old

2  Day Of The Change

3  And Now The Sun Shines

4  Turns To Dust a) Discovery b) Sanctuary c) Determination

5  Return To Sanity a) Breakdown b) Hope c) Conclusion

6  The Reason

7  I Can Stop The Sun

8  When To Stop a) The Traveller

b) Turning Point c) Journey's End

Bonus tracks

9  Go Your Way

10  Keep Out 'Cos I'm Dying

11  The Reason

12  Day Of The Change

13  Return To Sanity

14  Keep Out 'Cos I'm Dying

15  Search On

1-8 The album Andromeda, RCA Victor SF 8031, released September 1969

9-10 Single, RCA 1854, released June 1969

11-15 BBC session for John Peel, recorded 29 October 1968, first transmitted 17 November 1968

DISC TWO 

John Cann's proposed original mix/track listing/ running order for the album

1  Seven Lonely Street aka Seven Lonely Streets, aka Lonely Streets

2  The Reason

3  Day Of The Change

4  And Now The Sun Shines

5  Return To Sanity

6  Ocean Song aka Ode To The Sea

7  Too Old

8  Turns To Dust

9  I Can Stop The Sun

10  When To Stop

1-10 Proposed original mix/ alternative track listing/running order of first Andromeda album, recorded 1968-69

DISC THREE

Andromeda Beginnings

1  Let's All Watch The Sky Fall Down

2  A Means To An End

3  Day Of The Change alternative version

4  The Darkness Of Her Room

5  Garden Of Happiness

6  You

7  Land Of A Dream

8  Too Old alternative version

9  Let's All Watch The Sky Fall Down alternative version

10  I Can Stop The Sun alternative version 11 Return To Sanity alternative version

12 Turns To Dust alternative version

13 Go Your Way alternative version

14 Stroll On aka Roll On

15 Play The Game aka Step This Way

1-12 From the CD Andromeda – Beginnings (Angel Air SJPCD243, 2007)

13  From the CD The Attack – Final Daze (Angel Air SJPCD080, 2001), recorded 1968

14  From the CD The Attack – Final Daze (Angel Air SJPCD080, 2001), recorded early 1970

15  Previously unreleased acetate, recorded early 1970

DISC FOUR

Further demos and live recordings

1  Seven Lonely Street alternative version

2  I Was Left Behind

3  Exodus aka Return To Exodus, aka Acidus

4  Dreamland

5  See Into The Stars

6  All In You

7  Step This Way aka Play The Game (alternative version)

8  Roundhouse Blues (live) aka You Need Love

9  Walking On (live) aka Walking On Nails

10  I'm Searching (live) aka Search On

11  Acidus (live) aka Exodus, aka Return To Exodus

1 From the LP Andromeda - Seven Lonely Street (Reflection 006, 1990), recorded 1968-69

2-11 From the CD Andromeda - Definitive Collection (Angel Air SJPCD053, 2000), recorded 1968-69

DISC FIVE

Magic In The Air: The Attack and other bands

THE ATTACK

1  Magic In The Air aka Watch With Mother

2  Feel Like Flying aka Making It

3  Freedom For You

4  Strange House aka In His House

5  Mr. Pinnodmy's Dilemma

6  Go Your Way

7  Too Old

8  (And) Now The Sun Shines

9  Sleep Like A Child aka Sleep

10  Turns To Dust aka Turns To Dust II

11  When To Stop

12  Watch With Mother aka Magic In The Air

13  Magic In The Air (acoustic demo)

14  Sympathy For The Devil - Richard Shirman

15  Anything - Richard Shirman

16  Zilly Zally's Room - The Soul System

17  I Will Girl - Mailtown Blues Band

18  South Bound - Mailtown Blues Band

19  I Just Wanna Live My Life - The Light

20  Fred The Mouse aka The Lodger - The Light

21  You Know He Did - The Morality

22  Letters To You aka My Letters - The Sonics

1-7 From the LP The Attack - Magic In The Air (Reflection MM 08, 1990), recorded 1967-68

8-9, 13, 21-22 From the CD The Attack - Final Daze (Angel Air SJPCD080, 2001), recorded 1967-68

10-11 From the CD Andromeda – Beginnings (Angel Air SJPCD243, 2007), recorded 1968

14-15 From the CD The Attack – About Time! (rpm BC 317, 2006), recorded 1969

12 Previously unreleased acetate, recorded 18th August 1967

16 Previously unreleased acetate, recorded late 1966 17-18 Previously unreleased acetates, recording date unknown

19-20 From the CD Andromeda - Definitive Collection, Angel Air (SJPCD053, 2000), recorded 1967