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| | The Snow Goose | | | Music Artist : | | Camel | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Polygram UK | | Release Date : | | 2002-06-10 | | Store Price : | | $14.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $14.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Great Marsh
2. Rhayader
3. Rhayader Goes to Town
4. Sanctuary
5. Fritha
6. Snow Goose
7. Friendship
8. Migration
9. Rhayader Alone
10. Flight of the Snow Goose
11. Preparation
12. Dunkirk
13. Epitaph
14. Fritha Alone
15. Princesse Perdue
16. Great Marsh
17. Flight of the Snow Goose [Single Edit][*]
18. Rhayader [Single Edit][*]
19. Flight of the Snow Goose [Alternate Single Edit][#][*]
20. Rhayader Goes to Town [Live][#][*]
21. Snow Goose/Freefall [Live][*]
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 A Rock Classic!
Submitted on: 2009-07-15 |
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This album comes from the era of Progressive Rock "Concept" albums. Some of those worked (Dark Side Of The Moon of course!) and some didn't.
This is one that worked great - Fantastically crafted music based upon a storybook, and the music is great!
Deserves to be in the "Rock Classic" category.
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Camel Is Such An Underrated Band!
Submitted on: 2009-06-14 |
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"The Snow Goose" (1975) is the band's third album and it was recorded by the original line-up of Andrew Latimer (vocals/flute), Pete Bardens (keyboards), Doug Ferguson (bass), and Andy Ward (drums/percussion) at Island Studios using the production skills of David Hitchcock. The music was written to go along with Paul Gallico's novel of the same name. Throughout the sixteen songs, there are no lyrics but the melodies are extremely catchy with top-notch musicianship.
The intro piece "The Great Marsh" has some word-less singing in it over its haunting two chord pattern. For me, the highlights are the second composition "Rhayader" with a gorgeous flute melody from Latimer, the tranquil one-minute "Sanctuary", and the melodic guitar soloing on "The Snow Goose". Also of note is another short song (about 1:40) "Friendship" where keyboardist Bardens plays a pipe organ. The songs "Migration" and Preparation" feature more word-less chanting while "Fritha Alone" is a haunting piano composition with some gentle lead guitar notes on top. The remaining songs are fantastic too and make for a solid five-star album!
Fans of progressive rock should definitely check out this masterpiece from Camel as soon as possible!
Thanks for taking the time to read!
Later... |
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A Progressive Rock MUST !!!!
Submitted on: 2009-02-20 |
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| If there were 6 star I will certainly grant it...I've been a Camel fan since I was 15 yr. old (I'm 41 now) and if you're a progressive music fan and haven't listened to Camel....oh boy !! you've been living in a cave...Camel is one of the most underrated progressive bands of the 70's; their music may not be flashy but certainly played flawlessly with the perfect blend of instruments, nothing is too much everything fits perfectly...I've got to go but as I mentioned if you never listened before to Camel, be prepared to one of the most amazing prog. music ever composed...and my friend I'm also feel somewhat jealous of you because first time I listened it felt as breath of fresh air...there are some tunes that will certainly bring tears to your eyes. |
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Camel's Tommy, a Masterpiece
Submitted on: 2008-12-08 |
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| The Who had Tommy, Jethro Tull had Thick As A Brick, Pink Floyd had Dark Side of the Moon, and Camel had this, The Snow Goose. Just a gorgeous piece of music, excellent playing, production, sound engineering and musical composition. Peter Bardens, Andrew Latimer, Andy Ward and Doug Ferguson put together a masterpiece. I have never tired of this album/CD; it is always inspirational and deeply moving. These guys were just great, and this is their best work ever. |
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 Silver status
Submitted on: 2008-04-22 |
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Luis Mejia (son) - Based on Paul Gallico's novel, The Snow Goose seems to be Camel's piece which moved into an important place in progressive rock, and a hughe vantage point for the band. The album is fully instrumental, in this aspect, the vocal problem Latimer had always presented is covered into a mainstream of sounds and atmospheres, in which the tltle itself says "music inspired by the snow goose", the music covers each important passage of the novel through their own music, the plot and characters, as for me, I've never read the novel, but readers could be surprised, I'm not saying they'll be pleased, because even Paul Gallico was about to take legal action because the name of the band had always been confused with a branch of cigarettes called camel, and he didn't want that kind of publicity!
All in all, the music has had some of the most famous riffs even in rock music, the flute in "Rhayader", the arrangements in "Rhayeder Goes To Town", the guitar potential and charisma of "The Snow Goose", and the reprising "La Princess Perdue" are some of the most recognizeable examples. The special thing of the album is that Camel finally got their musical sense into interpreting novel pieces, and that finally gave sense to their direction, and as many fans may say it is overprized, what it is so special is that it is one of their most accessible pieces of their original era, but yet there is the problem of the music itself, the style is outreaching, but the music is simplistic prog, no gem, no archaic effort, but I think that was the purpose itself Camel always expected from their music, plus, the album reached silver status in sells, and had become somewhat of a legend in prog history. |
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