Quiet Sun were Phil Manzanera, Bill MacCormick (Robert Wyatt/Matching Mole), Charles Hayward (This Heat, Gong) and Dave Jarrett.
This album was recorded in 1975 at the same sessions as Manzanera's first solo album Diamond Head. The press release at the time described it thus "Hot, dark,manic, and electrifying, "Mainstream" stands smouldering in the debris of amultiple collision between elements of Lifetime, The Soft Machine, The Velvet Underground, and a stray nuclear warhead.
Beyond a shared use of vivid colour and high-voltage execution, "Mainstream" seems to have little in common with its sister album, "Diamond Head" herself.
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