Track listing
- 1 Freefall 5:49
- 2 Lady Fantasy 12:42
- a. Encounter
- b. Smiles for You
- c. Lady Fantasy
- 3 The Great Marsh 1:45
- 4 Rhyander 3:08
- 5 Rhyander Goes to Town 5:21
- 6 The Snow Goose 3:17
- 7 Flight of the Snow Goose 2:45
- 8 Dunkirk 5:29
- 9 Song Within a Song 7:10
- 10 Lunar Sea 9:06
- 11 First Light 5:05
- 12 Metrognome 4:09
- 13 Rain Dances 2:38
- Total length: 68:24
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La pausa del progetto fu coronata dall’apparizione di due raccolte: “A COMPACT COMPILATION” e “THE COLLECTION”; di esse la prima prendeva in considerazione soltanto i quattro anni 1974/1977.
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Camel’s A Compact Collection acts as a sampler for the bands' second to fifth LP’s: Mirage (1974), The Snow Goose (1975), Moonmadness (1976) and Rain Dances (1977).
I’m neither a big fan of Camel nor Progressive Rock, but this CD wandered blindly into my collection in the same manner a stray hair grows on ones back. You don’t see it coming, you’re not happy about it, but it really isn’t hurting anybody.
As the years pass by Progressive Rock loses its virtue by the truckload. However, listening to these mathematics majors cut lose while taking a break from writing their Tolkien thesis can be amusing every couple decades or so.
I’m neither a big fan of Camel nor Progressive Rock, but this CD wandered blindly into my collection in the same manner a stray hair grows on ones back. You don’t see it coming, you’re not happy about it, but it really isn’t hurting anybody.
As the years pass by Progressive Rock loses its virtue by the truckload. However, listening to these mathematics majors cut lose while taking a break from writing their Tolkien thesis can be amusing every couple decades or so.
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really useful early Rhino Records sampler of a decent mid-'seventies prog band. by "decent" I mean, of course, that if you're stoned you might think that this is Jesus hisself's favourite album of all-time. these guys are soft but when you think about it, that's not always such a bad thing.
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Rhino's come a long way in terms of album packaging, that much is for certain. Thankfully, the music on this one is killer, so the lack of liners or detailed information is excusable. I'm certain there are better retrospectives on this unfortunately oft-overlooked band, but this is the only one I own, the first one I ran across, so this is not only my introduction to Camel, but all I've ever heard. All opinions converge on the fact that the earliest Camel albums (the ones that these tracks are taken from) represent many of the high points of the band's catalog, so this one is literally the best of the best. Epic early prog, somewhere between Genesis' musical theatre, Yes' symphonics, Floyd's space-rock (especially on the selections from Moonmadness), and the Canterbury boys' jazz-fusion leanings, Camel released some great music in their day, making them (along with Caravan and Gentle Giant) one of the golden age of prog-rock's longlost secrets... Song highlights include the multi-part epic Lady Fantasy, which rides some Yes-esque instrumental sections through a Floydian refrain and then back into a pseudo-Fripp guitar freak-out... Bear in mind, as well, that these comparisons are in no way to mean that Camel is derivative of their peers, more that they existed in their own place, somewhere between the places of many of their contemporaries...
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I’ve discovered Camel with this album and it’s a good introduction to the band’s first line up. It contains some of the best titles from the first albums.
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