As Your Mind Flies By

As Your Mind Flies By is the second studio album by the English progressive rock band Rare Bird and the last to feature their original line-up. Recorded at I.B.C. Studios in London and produced by the band themselves, it was released in the United Kingdom by Charisma Records and the United States by ABC Records in 1970. The Esoteric Recordings remastered edition, released in 2007, contains three bonus tracks, including the previously unissued song "Red Man".

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]

In a contemporary Billboard review, As Your Mind Flies By was favourably described as "a mixture of hard driving rock and emotional tunes, both featuring good musical changes within each cut".^[2] Jo-Ann Greene of AllMusic has retrospectively called the album a "swan song" of original Rare Bird and awarded As Your Mind Flies By four-and-a-half out of five.^[1]

Despite favourable reception, the album did not chart in the United Kingdom, nor in the United States.

Track listing

All tracks written by Rare Bird, except "Red Man" written by Steve Gould, David Kaffinetti, Andy Curtis, Aaron Hall.

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"What You Want to Know"	6:02
2.	"Down on the Floor"	2:42
3.	"Hammerhead"	3:35
4.	"I'm Thinking"	5:43

Side two
No.	Title	Length
5.	"Flight a. "Part 1. As Your Mind Flies By" – 9:46 b. "Part 2. Vacuum" – 3:16 c. "Part 3. New Yorker" / d. "Part 4. Central Park" (Medley) – 6:33"	19:41
Total length:		37:44

2007 Esoteric Recordings remastered edition bonus tracks
No.	Title	Length
6.	"What You Want to Know" (mono single version; A-side of the single, released as Charisma CB 138 in November 1970)
7.	"Hammerhead" (mono single version, B-side of the single "What You Want to Know")
8.	"Red Man" (recorded at Central Sound Studios, London in 1971; previously unreleased)

Personnel

Rare Bird

Graham Field – organ, keyboards
David Kaffinetti – electric piano, keyboards
Steve Gould – lead vocals, bass guitar
Mark Ashton – drums, vocals

Andy Curtis – guitar (on "Red Man")
Fred Kelly – drums (on "Red Man")

Technical personnel

Brian Stott – engineer
John Pasche – sleeve design
Roger Brown – photography

References

1 2 Greene, Jo-Ann. Rare Bird: "As Your Mind Flies By" > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
↑ "Billboard Album Reviews: Rare Bird – As Your Mind Flies By". Billboard. Vol. 82 no. 41. 10 October 1970. p. 68. |access-date= requires |url= (help)

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