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Clear Air Turbulence
Studio album by Ian Gillan Band
Released	April 1977
Recorded	Kingsway Recorders, London, UK
Genre	Jazz-Rock fusion
Length	38:38
Label	Island Records
Producer(s)	Ian Gillan Band
Professional reviews
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Ian Gillan Band chronology
Child In Time 1976	Clear Air Turbulence (1977)	Scarabus (1977)
The Rockfield Mixes
Cover of the 1997 release on Angel Air Records

Clear Air Turbulence is an album by British jazz-rock fusion band Ian Gillan Band, released in 1977. The album was reissued in 1989 by Virgin Records on CD.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Personnel 3 The Rockfield Mixes 4 The Rockfield Mixes Plus

Side 1

1. "Clear Air Turbulence" (Ray Fenwick, Ian Gillan, John Gustafson, Ray Nauseef, Colin Towns)—7.35
2. "Five Moons" (Fenwick, Gillan, Gustafson, Nauseef, Towns)—7.30
3. "Money Lender" (Fenwick, Gillan, Gustafson, Nauseef, Towns)—5.38

Side 2

1. "Over The Hill" (Fenwick, Gillan, Gustafson, Nauseef, Towns)—7.14
2. "Goodhand Liza" (Fenwick, Gillan, Gustafson, Nauseef, Towns)—5.24
3. "Angel Manchenio" (Fenwick, Gillan, Gustafson, Nauseef, Towns)—5.17

• Ian Gillan - vocals
• Colin Towns - keyboards and flutes
• John Gustafson - bass and vocals
• Ray Fenwick - guitars and vocals
• Mark Nauseef - drums and percussion
• Phil Kersie - tenor saxophone on "Five Moons"
• Martin Firth - baritone saxophone
• John Huckridge - trumpets
• Derek Healey - trumpets
• Malcolm Griffiths - trombone

Ian Gillan became dissatisfied with the final mixes of the album and this delayed its eventual release. What eventually became the album Clear Air Turbulence was remixed at Kingsway before release, but the original mix had taken place at Rockfield Studios in Wales. In 1997 the original mix was released by Angel Air Records under the title The Rockfield Mixes. The Rockfield Mixes represents a "cleaner" (or at least earlier) version of the album. It also includes an extra track which didn't make it to the original release. The track list was altered as follows:

1. "Over The Hill" (Fenwick, Gillan, Gustafson, Nauseef, Towns)—7.20
2. "Clear Air Turbulence" (Fenwick, Gillan, Gustafson, Nauseef, Towns)—7.47
3. "Five Moons" (Fenwick, Gillan, Gustafson, Nauseef, Towns)—7.34
4. "Money Lender" (Fenwick, Gillan, Gustafson, Nauseef, Towns)—5.40
5. "Angel Manchenio" (Fenwick, Gillan, Gustafson, Nauseef, Towns)—7.21
6. "This Is The Way" (Fenwick, Gillan, Gustafson, Nauseef, Towns)—2.03
7. "Goodhand Liza" (Fenwick, Gillan, Gustafson, Nauseef, Towns)—5.20

In 2004 a further variant of the album was released as The Rockfield Mixes Plus containing 4 previously unreleased tracks and an interview with Ray Fenwick. The extra tracks were:

• "Apathy (Backing Track)"— 4:14
• "Over the Hill (Live)"—9:50
• "Smoke on the Water (Live)"—7:38
• "Mercury High (Backing Track)"—3:33