Room - Preflight (Uk Blues Progressive 1970)

Room - "Pre-Flight" (1970) Room was an obscure British group who released a promising debut-album, and then disappeared into oblivion. They played a quite rough, unpolished and guitar-dominated style of early 70's progressive rock mainly influenced by jazz and blues, but they also gave the music a symphonic side by using lots of strings and brass. They were fronted by a female-singer, and her voice fitted well into their often melo-dramatic and complex songs. The title-track and the instrumental "Cemetery Junction" are both solid progressive rock tracks in several sections, and reveals a tight and technical very competent band. "Andromeda" shows the band from their most dramatic and grandiose side, while the more blues-inflected tracks "Where Did I Go Wrong" and "Big John Blues" are more modest and basic. The quiet parts of "No Warmth in My Life" tend to remind me of Affinity, and that's not a bad thing at all. "Pre-Flight" is an album with lots of qualities, and should be well worth checking out.

01 - Pre-Flight - Parts I & II - 8.56
02 - Where Did I Go Wrong - 5.27
03 - No Warmth In My Life - 4.34
04 - Big John Blues - 2.33
05 - Andromeda - 5.07
06 - War - 4.33
07 - Cemetery Junction - Parts I & II - 8.31

Publicado por .Miguel Angel