Released 26/10/09 Esoteric Recordings are happy to announce the release of this extensive compilation which covers the career of Barclay James Harvest during their twenty three year tenure with Polydor Records, beginning with material from the album Everyone Is Everybody Else, including tracks from albums such as Time Honoured Ghosts, Octoberon, Gone To Earth, XII and ending with tracks from the German only album River of Dreams. Including such classic tracks as Mockingbird, Galadriel, She Said, Child Of The Universe, Jonathan, Rock N Roll Star, Hymn, Poorman Smoody Blues, Berlin, In Memory Of The Martyrs, this extensive history of the band's most successful recorded work is a long overdue reappraisal of their music.

Sea of Tranquility is a fine overview of the finest music produced by the band. The release of the 3CD set coincides with John Lees Barclay James Harvest tour of the UK and Europe in October and November 2009.

CD One
Child Of The Universe (Us Single Version) / Crazy City / For No One / The Great 1974 Mining Disaster (Original Mix) / Negative Earth (Original Mix) / She Said (Live) / Galadriel (Live) / Mockingbird (Live) / In My Life / Sweet Jesus / Hymn For The Children / Song For You / Titles / Ra / May Day

CD Two
The World Goes On / Rock N Roll Star (Tv Playback Version) / Hymn / Sea Of Tranquillity / Poorman Smoody Blues / Suicide? (Live) / Medicine Man (Live) / Jonathan (Live) / Berlin / Fact: The Closed Shop / In Search Of England / Sperratus / The Song (They Love To Sing) / Capricorn (Single Version)

CD Three
Nova Lepidoptera (Live In Berlin 1980) / Life Is For Living (Live In Berlin 1980) / In Memory Of The Martyrs / Fifties Child / Ring Of Changes (Single Version) / African / Alone In The Night / On The Wings Of Love / Lady Macbeth / Cheap The Bullet / John Lennon's Guitar / The Ballad Of Denshaw Mill / Mr. E / Children Of The Disappeared

Released on 30/08 2010. On August 30th 1980, Barclay James Harvest performed the most legendary concert of their career on the steps of the Reichtag in West Berlin. This free concert took place in front of an audience of 250,000 people next to the Berlin Wall which divided the city at that time. The event was filmed and recorded, spawning the band smost successful album in the UK and a film and video release which was also screened on television. In Germany, the album was released with two extra tracks in a limited edition package.

This 30th Anniversary edition of A Concert for the People (Berlin) features the two bonus tracks of the original German release. The first 2000 copies will be released as a Limited Edition Digi Pack. This Esoteric Recordings reissue has been re-mastered from the original tapes and fully restores the original album artwork and coincideswith the DVD release of the concert film this month.

Love On The Line / Mockingbird / Rock N Roll Lady / Nova Lepidoptera / Sip Of Wine / In Memory Of The Martyrs / Life Is For Living / Child Of The Universe / Berlin / Loving Is Easy / Hymn

Released 27/04/09. Recorded over two tours in 1976 and 1977, 'Live Tapes' was released as Barclay James Harvest were on the ascendant. Following on the heels of their Platinum selling album 'Gone to Earth', a huge hit in Germany and a top thirty album in the UK, 'Live Tapes' offered versions of songs from the album such as ‘Poor Man's Moody Blues' and ‘Hymn' alongside live selections from albums such as 'Time Honoured Ghosts' and 'Octoberon'.

This collection also adds three bonus tracks not released on the original double album, ‘Medicine Man', ‘The World Goes On' and ‘Hymn for the Children', Released to coincide with a series of British concerts by John Lees' Barclay James Harvest, this album makes a much welcomed appearance on CD once more and joins the release of an expanded 'Barclay James Harvest Live' on Esoteric Recordings this month.

Disc One- Child Of The Universe / Rock N' Roll Star / Poor Man's Moody Blues / Mockingbird / Hard Hearted Woman / One Night / The World Goes On (Bonus Track) / Medicine Man (Bonus Track) / Disc Two- Taking Me Higher / Suicide? / Crazy City / Jonathan / Hymn For / The Children (Bonus Track) / For No One / Polk Street Rag / Hymn

Released 27/04/09. Perhaps the finest hour of Barclay James Harvest came with this live album recorded in 1974 on the tour to promote the release of their first album for Polydor, 'Everyone is Everybody Else'. The live set features all of their classic tracks such as ‘Mockingbird', ‘Summer Soldier', ‘Medicine Man', ‘She Said' and ‘For No One'.
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he record was the band's first UK chart album and is constantly cited in internet polls as the group's finest album. Released to coincide with a series of British concerts by John Lees' Barclay James Harvest, this album makes a much welcomed appearance on CD once more and joins the release of an expanded 'Live Tapes' on Esoteric Recordings this month.

Summer Soldier / Medicine Man / Crazy City / After The Day / The Great 1974 Mining Disaster / Galadriel / Negative Earth / She Said / Paper Wings / For No One / Mockingbird