Search - Artist/Band: National Health

• Band Name: National Health
• Formed: 1975
• Disbanded: 1982
• Decades Active: 1970,1980
• Genre: Rock
• Styles: Canterbury Scene, Prog-Rock/Art Rock
• Moods: Complex, Cerebral, Fiery, Intense, Quirky, Energetic, Ethereal, Trippy, Hypnotic

Title	Release
Missing Pieces	10/15/1996
Complete W	1990
D.S. al Coda W	1982
Of Queues & Cures W	1978
National Health W	1977

National Health is one of those rare English progressive bands whose classic mid-'70s output still sounds fresh today. Their sound prospered on imaginative linear musicality, often in a jazzy format that emphasized extended instrumental solos. In keeping with the collaborative spirit of the times, National Health had an ever-changing lineup, sharing members with other influential groups like Hatfield and the North, Henry Cow, Matching Mole, and others. After a pair of 1978 releases, National Health and Of Queues and Cures, the group issued 1982's D.S. Al Coda and then fell silent. The overview Complete appeared in 1990; Missing Pieces, a collection of outtakes, followed in 1996. in 2000, Cuneiform issued a live album, Playtime which was recorded at two different shows in 1979 and sequenced and mastered in 2000 by Phil Miller and Pip Pyle as a tribute to their late bandmate, Alan Gowen, who had died of leukemia in May 1981. ~ Myles Boisen, All Music Guide