The second album from this band from Great Britain.
The band, make that orchestra, was a ten piece big orchestra with a lineup of drums, bongos, cymbals, bass, guitars, ukulele, harmonium, cello, viola, violins, piano, electric piano, pennywhistle, oboe and harmonium.
This is the follow up to their 1976 debut album. A pretty good album, it was.
The band released their albums on a Virgin Records sub-label run by Brian Eno. He was always a guiding light in the minimalism rock genre. That did not really influence their debut album that much...
.. But on the follow up album, minimalistic chamber rock is what we get on this fifty minutes long album.
Rock is also a bit of a wrong label too. The music is more neo-classical chamber music.
The music is based on repetitions and small, subtle changes over a theme. Each pieces of music is like this.
In most cases, this works. The music is a bit bare boned and barren. This is still a pretty good album. Do not expect any rock here or anything normal progressiv rock. This album is an avant-garde album for those who dare to venture outside the well trodden paths.
2.5 points
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