Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Gracious - Echo (1996)

The third and final album from this band from Great Britain.

The band was a trio with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, keyboards and vocals.

Three guests added guitars and vocals.

The band released their first two albums in 1970 and 1971. They are semi-classic symphonic prog albums. Why Tim Wheatley and Robert Lipson, two-thirds of the 1996 band, returned twenty-seven years later is something I do not really understand.

Nevertheless, they did and the result is this album.

The years of inactivity has meant a change of genre. From symphonic prog to.... well, this one hour long album has a mix of various genres.

The start off point is art-rock. Then we get some psych rock, mainstream rock and......jazz. Yes, jazz. Coser to fusion, mostly but still some minutes with jazz. Confused ? You will be confused by this album.

That is not a bad thing, a musically varied album as this album. The vocals is also good and the band does a good job.

The quality of the music is somewhere between decent and good. It is indeed an interesting album who is sadly overlooked. Undeserved overlooked as it deserve a lot more attention. Check out this album.

2.5 points



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