East of Eden is one of those very early British prog or rock jazz bands that are seldom remembered these days. Basically they had two very good albums -the Psych and Middle eastern influenced Mercator Projected and the somewhat more conventional Snafu. There's also some great bootleg quality live material from that era.
Their frontman was Dave Arbus, fiddlle and sax player, certainly best known for playing on The Who's Baba's O"Reilly.
They kept making albums until the late seventies with altered personel and with a hard rock or even country or pub rock feel. There's a longish Youtube live on a TV studio session of the second or third version of the band.
Then, in the Nineties, Arbus came back with a couple of older players and recorded a couple of conventional jazz rock albums.
In all, one of those bands that made a couple of good albums and then became progressively worse after that.
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