In 1972 the band released an eponymous album, Magic Carpet, on the Mushroom (UK) label that has since become a sought-after item in the international collectors' vinyl market.
Numerous UK bands of the era began to use sitar and Indian musical sounds generally to add a flavor of the east to their recordings.
By contrast, Magic Carpet was a more cohesive Anglo-Indian fusion, the Indian instrumentation generating and being integral to the music, not simply an addition.
[3] Tracks from the Magic Carpet band's eponymous album have latterly appeared on various reissue compilations, most notably in 2008 on A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind: Volume 1,[4] voted No 1 favourite by Noel Gallagher[5] in Mojo magazine in 2008.
[10] It is a true follow on from the original Magic Carpet album, with its simple acoustic instrumentation – guitar, sitar, tabla, tamboura, and Appalachian dulcimer.