RECORDS
In 1976 the Clearwater Recording Company, of Borehamwood, Herts, introduced the concept of 7" records with very extended playing times - their publicity claimed that the records offered an album's worth of material. The first five EPs were issued on the Clearwater Microgroove label, with catalogue numbers in a CLW-1000 series. Over the course of the year the company's name seems to have changed to Clearwater International (on the sleeve of CLW-1003) and then to Microgroove Ltd (on the sleeve of CLW-1005); for the sixth release, a ten-track EP by The Cockatoos, 'Nice & Easy' (CLW-1006; 1976) the label name became plain 'Microgroove' and the company's logo appeared on the label. It seems likely that CLW-1007, a various artists 'Bob Dylan Tribute' according to the sleeve of CLW-1005, would also have been given the new label, There were no releases in 1977, but one further Microgroove EP eventually saw the light of day: it was an eight-tracker by a band called Appianova, 'Appianova At La Roca' (MIG-1 78). There's no date on the label but it seems likely that the '78' in the catalogue number is the year in which the record was issued. The label had a new logo, but the P.O. Box number on the sleeve was the same as that of the the 1976 Microgroove company, and producer John Fairer-Smith appears to have been involved with both. Perhaps the Appianova EP was Clearwater / Microgroove's second - and final - attempt at convincing the public that their album-length EPs were a practical proposition. Thanks to Robert Lyons For The Info.
| 76 | Albertino And The High Flight Drive-In Show | Albertino Presenteerd High Flight Music Explosion | CLEARWATER MICROGROOVE | CLW | 1001 |
| 76 | Albertino And The High Flight Drive-In Show | Rock And Roll Jamboree | CLEARWATER MICROGROOVE | CLW | 1002 |
| 76 | Neil Williams | The Neil Williams Collection | CLEARWATER MICROGROOVE | CLW | 1003 |
| 76 | Not Traced | CLEARWATER MICROGROOVE | CLW | 1004 | |
| 76 | Various Artists | Gone… But Not Forgotten | CLEARWATER MICROGROOVE | CLW | 1005 |
| 76 | Cockatoos | Nice And Easy | CLEARWATER MICROGROOVE | CLW | 1006 |
| 76 | Various Artists | Bob Dylan Tribute | CLEARWATER MICROGROOVE | CLW | 1007 |
