CAMEL Moonmadness 2014 Japanese Import SHM-CD MINI LP OBI BONUS TRACKS NEW CD
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Description
CAMEL - Moonadness
SHM-CD (Super High Material CD)
BRAND NEW and UNOPENED (comes in a cellophane wrapper) 2014 Japanese Import of this classic album.
The CD is housed in a mini card sleeve replica of the original LP sleeve with original obi.
Tracks 8 and 9 are indicated as bonus tracks.
Universal Music Japan - Made in Japan - UICY-76076
TRACKS
1 Aristillus
2 Song Within A Song
3 Chord Change
4 Spirit Of The Water
5 Another Night
6 Air Born
7 Lunar Sea
8 Another Night (Single Version)
9 Lunar Sea (Live)
Arguably, alongside its immediate predecessor The Snow Goose (the record which encouraged readers of Melody Maker to vote Camel "The Brightest Hope" in that publication's 1975 year-end poll), Moonmadness is Camel's most acclaimed work; a creamy fusion of soft progressive rock exquisitely coloured with fluttering flutes and recorders (witness the icicle prettiness of "Spirit of The Water"), protracted jazzy extemporisation and--in contemporary parlance--the sort of gossamer "chill-out" passages precursive of latter-day electronic moodists like Air.
Conceptually, four of the pieces are based on the personalities of each band member and even if Peter Bardens and Andy Ward opted-out of offering psychological profiles by penning instrumentals (both fidgety jazz-rock nymbers, "Chord Changes" from Bardens and "Lunar Sea" from Ward), Andrew Latimer compared himself to a soaring glider on the wispy "Air Born" and bassist Doug Ferguson--whose "Another Night" spoke of "dark clouds", "feels like I'm fading" and "can't face the morning"--seemed in dire need of some tea and sympathy. And he probably felt a whole lot worse when the record company badgered Camel into releasing a truncated version as a single (both sides of which are included here as bonus tracks), an unhappy compromise for a band bent on steering clear of the commercial path. Of course, Camel's lack of a natural vocalist at that time proved a hindrance to greater success and--like dinosaurs--they were oblivious to the impending impact of the approaching punk meteorite. Regardless, Moonmadness is an enchanting period piece from a more innocent era. --Kevin Maidment
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