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Title - Electric Garden [Remastered]
Artist - Mike Starrs

For those unaware, Mike Starrs is the former lead singer of jazz rock fusionists Colosseum II, Lucifer�s Friend and the German band Lake. This is the first ever re-release of his only solo album, Electric Garden, with four bonus tracks added.

When it was first released in 1973, Electric Garden was only available in six European countries and the non-album singles, now included as bonus tracks, were only available in three European countries. This re-release is a �catch-all� of his 1970s solo releases.

The album has been re-mastered by band member Gerry Morris and approved by Mike Starrs and original producer Tony Atkins. The booklet includes two sets of liner notes; the original 1973 notes and retrospective notes newly written by Mike Starrs.

All the tracks feature Geoff Whitehorn of Procol Harum on guitar and all but one track includes John Richardson of The Rubettes on drums.

Mike Starrs said of the re-release: �A young man who had his whole life / career in front of him. I remember hearing my first single Love Song on Juke Box Jury and they all voted it a hit. Who could ever have imagined that I would be sitting here talking about and reminiscing about my very first album Electric Garden�?�

1. Feel So Good
2. When It Comes to Love
3. Electric Garden
4. The Will
5. Good Life
6. To Everyone Concerned
7. Loving You
8. Beautiful Day
9. Looking for Love
10. I�ll Take Good Care of You
11. Hold On
12. Love Song
13. Witches Brew
14. Lost Without You
15. Da-Doo-Ron-Ron
16. Blue and White

This deliciously-accomplished album opens on the free-flowing, Sun shining, and aptly-named Feel So Good and the languishing When It Comes to Love, and they are followed by the prog-imbued rock of the titular Electric Garden, the lazy hazy The Will, the old school rocker Good Life, the aching, one minute, jaunty and Beatles-esque the next To Everyone Concerned, and then come the guitar rock of Loving You and the softly cultured Beautiful Day.

Up next is the funky foot tapper Looking for Love and the soaringly electric I�ll Take Good Care of You and they are in turn backed by the soaring guitar work within Hold On, the melodic prog of Love Song, the grounded rock of Witches Brew, the easy going Lost Without You, the recording rounding out with a mid-tempo cover of the Phil Spector-written Da-Doo-Ron-Ron, closing on the airy AOR of Blue and White.

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