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Spirit
tempered its ravenous passion for jazz, high-voltage rock, folk,
blues and avant garde electronics, hammered it like a slab of hot
steel and shaped a glistering original sound that no one’s
been able to duplicate. It’s a good thing this eclectically
brilliant Los Angeles combo — Jay Ferguson, Randy California,
John Locke, Mark Andes and Ed “Cass” Cassidy — always
cut more material than it could use. Welcome to Now Or Anywhere
and Eventide, two soundtracks for the mind—20 songs,
unreleased at the time — that flow as if they were always meant
to be. Enthusiastically endorsed by the four surviving members of
Spirit, Now Or Anywhere and Eventide emphasize the
moody and ethereal, and smolder like phosphorous.
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