Phantasmagoria (album)
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Publication |
April 1972 |
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admission |
March 1972 |
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| Label (s) | Warner Bros. Records | |||
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Title (number) |
9 |
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running time |
37:54 |
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Curved Air and Colin Caldwell |
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Studio (s) |
Advision Studios EMS |
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Phantasmagoria is the third studio album by the British progressive rock band Curved Air . It was released on Warner Brothers Records in 1972 .
Creation and publication
After the second album, the bassist Ian Eyre left the band and was replaced by Mike Wedgwood. However, this line-up only lasted for the band's third album, because after Phantasmagoria , Francis Monkman, Darryl Way and Florian Pilkington-Miksa got out. The album was recorded in March 1972 with a number of guest musicians (including Chris Pyne and Frank Ricotti ) in London, the band and Colin Caldwell produced it.
Track list
page 1
- Marie Antoinette - 6:20
- Melinda (More or Less) - 3:25
- Not Quite the Same - 3:44
- Cheetah - 3:31
- Ultra Vivaldi - 1:24
Page 2
- Phantasmagoria - 3:13
- Whose Shoulder Are You Looking Over Anyway? - 3:23
- Over and Above - 8:33
- Once a Ghost, Always a Ghost - 4:21
style
Curved Air play song-oriented, playful progressive rock on Phantasmagoria with influences from folk , jazz and classical music. The focus is on Sonja Kristina's versatile singing, the varied pieces are complexly structured and richly orchestrated with guitar, violin, flute, keyboards, wind instruments and various percussion instruments. The atmosphere is often fragile and magical. The title of the album was borrowed from a collection of poetry by Lewis Carroll .
reception
The album reached number 20 in the British charts and is now considered the high point of the band's work and a classic of progressive rock. Allmusic's Dave Thompson describes Phantasmagoria as a "fabulous" and "shiny" album. Siggy Zielinski from the Babyblauen Seiten thinks it is “original, naive and intelligent at the same time”, for Achim Breiling it is “definitely one of the best that British Prog produced at the beginning of the 1970s”. The eclipsed magazine included Phantasmagoria in its list of the 150 most important prog albums.
Web links
- Phantasmagoria at Allmusic (English)
- Reviews of Phantasmagoria on the baby blue pages
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Baby Blue Prog Reviews: Curved Air: Phantasmagoria , Baby Blue Pages , accessed on November 24, 2012.
- ↑ Dave Thompson: Curved Air at Allmusic (English), accessed on November 24, 2012.
- ↑ a b Dave Thompson: Phantasmagoria at Allmusic (English), accessed on November 24, 2012.
- ↑ a b eclipsed No. 144, p. 32.