With progressive rock on such a unbroken upswing, the reverence for the bands that created it in the course of the late 60s and 70s has made UK prog icons Camel one of many large names of the style once more. Certainly one of their most achieved works and the third LP of their substantial canon is the formidable set launched in April 1975, The Snow Goose. The elegant, all-instrumental album is usually considered their masterwork, and have become the primary of their eight consecutive UK chart albums over the next decade.
Fashioned in London in 1971, the band had launched their assured, self-titled debut in 1973, then made inroads on the American market with the next yr’s Mirage. That didn’t chart in their very own nation, however by 1975, with the album-oriented market in its prime and artists capable of promote massive portions of LPs with out the necessity for hit singles, Camel actually hit their stride.
The Snow Goose was impressed by Paul Gallico’s 1940 novella of the identical title, and was created at Island Studios with producer David Hitchcock and engineer Rhett Davies. Experimental and with out recourse to overt commerciality, it entered the UK chart in Might 1975, regularly climbing as excessive as No.22, staying on the chart for a really respectable 13 weeks and incomes silver certification. In October 1975, on the top of their powers, Camel carried out the album on the Royal Albert Corridor. A yr later, Moonmadness hit the Prime 20, as did 1977’s Rain Dances, each additionally going silver.
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In 2013, the band reunited to carry out the album, in honor of their much-missed transferring drive Pete Bardens, within the UK, Germany, Holland and Belgium, with a London present on the Barbican. That led to them receiving a nomination within the Reside Occasion class on the 2015 Progressive Music Awards, hosted by Prog journal.
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