Touch of the Rare [SEP] record label
Touch of the Rare
LISA RICH, Touch of the Rare is an album by American jazz vocalist Lisa Rich, backed by a quartet led by pianist/composer/arranger Clare Fischer, who also wrote or co-wrote six of its 11 tracks. Released by Trend Records in 1985 as TR 541, and reissued the following year on CD, Touch of the Rare""' was the second album released by Rich, and provides a rare, if not unique, opportunity (excluding Fischer's own recordings with vocal
Palmer-affiliated label Space Age Recordings.
"Losing Touch with Your Mind", an unofficial release of 1991, was a compilation of alternate song versions and rare releases. The 1993 re-release of on the Sympathy For The Record Industry label – which included the intriguing live 44-minute Eastern-inspired drone music performance at the Watermans Art Centre, Brentford, London, of August 1988 – was augmented with a previously unreleased recording of a jam.
1995 saw the unofficial release of the band's first demo tape: