Chimera (6)

UK late 60s folk female duo. Francesca Garnett (now Posney) and Lisa Bankoff were two cousins schoolgirls very active in the Swinging London. In 1967 they made a demo that the nascent Apple Records not issued for the veto of George Harrison. In 1969 the Pink Floyd's drummer Nick Mason became their manager and in July despatched them to Ron Geesin to cut some demos. For a while the girls, now calling themselves Chimera, became part of Floyd's extended family. The duo also signed a contract with Monty Babson’s Morgan Bluetown label, a side project of the Morgan Music Studio, but the demos recorded don't released due to failures of the record label.The band’s sole LP recorded between 1967 and 1970, did not appear until 2002 when Tenth Planet Records released a ten track LP and Wooden Hill Records a nineteen track CD, both simply titled “Chimera.” The Morgan Bluetown release comes in an LP with a track listing identical to the 2002 release, and a twenty one track CD, two previously unreleased tracks having been found when the master tapes, long assumed lost, were located in the Morgan Music vaults.