CMU Space Cabaret 1973 UK ,Prog,Jazz,Blues,Folk,Space Rock
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2024
- CMU - Space Cabaret 1973 UK ,Prog,Jazz,Blues,Folk,Space Rock
Two year after their debut album CMU comes back with a very different line-up, where Loraine's main vocal partner has changed - Rick Joseph instead of James Gordon - and has become the main songwriter. Among the changes is Leary Hasson who will bring an impressive array of keyboards. An absolutely ugly cosmonaut artwork disgraces the album, reminiscent of Roger Dean's not always successful early artworks.
Opening on the atrocious (but thankfully short) title track, CMU offers the much better Archway 272, with mellotrons and a Sinclair-like fuzzed-out organ as well as a Rhodes, all courtesy of newcomer Leary Hasson. This track ends with a pulled saturated mike jack, but immediately goes into Song From The 4th Era that could be from Peter Hammill's Fool's Mate album. The meditative 7-mins Distant Thought retains the slight Hammill vocal influence, but the music is more in the Yes realm (all things considered). Closing up the first side is Doctor, another Joseph tune where only the bass seems alive with his acoustic guitar, until the 2/3 of the song, where Rhodes intervene as well, turning it nicely around for us progheads.
As a contrast to the five Joseph-penned tracks of the first side, there is only two longer ones on the flipside: the almost 10-mins Hamlett-penned Dreams and the 10-mins+ Hasson-written Lightshine. The former starts as a smooth gliding track, punctuated with Neil Young-like guitar interventions (Thinking of his Nowhere album), before the guitar goes funky and the Rhodes arrive for a verse, then the track plunges into a psyched dreamland for the following verse, the guitar sounding Hendrix-ey, this morphing into a slow ascending riff under the patronage of a fuzzed-out organ of Hasson and more changes coming up. Lightshine is a piano-written track, but after the intro comes a Moog interlude ala Emerson's Lucky Man. The track later grows into a raga where both singers trade verses than spreads its wings over vast Caravan-like soundscapes; Hasson's fuzzed out organ helping so.
As you could read in my reviews of CMU, there isn't much original or innovative and their influences are a bit too clear, but on the whole despite its ugly sleeve, Space Cabaret is an enjoyable but unessential piece of early prog rock. I'd say that this album is slightly better than Open Spaces, but this is marginal enough to say that it would a difficult choice to choose only one?. But ultimately this one gets the edge.
Songs / Tracks Listing
1. Space Cabaret (0:00)
2. Archway 272 (1:56)
3. Song From the 4th Era (8:14)
4. A Distant Thought, a Point of Light ( 10:36)
5. Doctor, Am I Normal? (17:25)
6. Dream (22:22)
7. Lightshine (32:04)
8. Heart Of The Sun (Bonus Track) (42:31)
9. Doctor, Am I Normal (Single Version) (Bonus Track) (45:40)
Line-up / Musicians
Ian Hamlett - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Larraine Odell - vocals, guitar
Leary Hasson - keyboards
Richard Joseph - vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar
Roger Odell - drums
Super!!! I Was looking for this album for more than 30 years, sin ce I kept in mind the melody of the first song but could not remind any titles ofcthexsongs or name of the band: wonderful tonight I have found it after so many years: still pwrceipt as magnetic album, same feeling ad 30 years ago❤
Classy. Awesome. Thank you .
♡W ♡O ♡W!
In my opinion not better than debut album, but very very cool !
I like this ❤
Tnx, dear John,...,...☆
💙💛✌️
yes💫👍🏻... open spaces ,very good ...
Благодарю.
Вы открываете двери
в Мир 🌏 хорошей
и неизвестной музыки.
What a perfect album from first track to last; it stands out even in that magical five-year period of British progressive music from about 1968-1973. The melodicism, especially the alternating/dialogic male and female vocals, helps place it in a category - that is, in a realm and a dimension - uniquely its own.
Extremely well done , their other LP is worth a listen as well. Just superb, thanks so much for the upload !
Obrigado por compartilhar, mais um álbum muito bom e diferente de muitos outros estilos que já ouvi.
Απίστευτο! Και αυτό κ το open spaces! Κ αρκετά " obscure", αλλά σπάνιες μουσικές!
Wow...thank you🥰
Gratidão por me fazer conhecer está maravilha sonora....... muito bom
När det regnar och man har en tunna vin är denna skiva det perfekta sällskapet.
А когда идет снег, и у вас есть бутылка спирта..
Nei credits nella line up, non appare il bassista che era STEVE COOK .
LEARY HASSON , non è stato prima membro di un altra interessante band progressive rock,i MARSUPILAMI ???
Another great progressive band. Both their LPs from 1970 are well worth hunting down. (On the same label, Transatlantic, as Contemporary Music Unit/CMU.)
ok, but this album is much inferior to 1971