Room's 1970 Preflight is a near-masterpiece of blues-influenced prog-rock with forays into jazz territories. Well-structured and punctuated by interesting time changes and a skillful use of wind and string instruments, they are definitely at least on par with label mates Leaf Hound and Mellow Candle. The guitar playing of Chris Williams and the remarkable vocal timbre of the singer also places the album a cut above many in the genre.Reviews
Pre-Flight
ReplyDeleteWow. I usually don't like such heavily blues inflected music so I wasn't expecting to like this either, but I'm totally surprised. This album is really unique. Thanks for making this available.
ReplyDeleteBTW: I love the blog and the podcast.
Another nice post from you Eelafree. You are definitely the main man on this blog as far as premium music being posted!
ReplyDeleteThe more similar band to Room
ReplyDeletesurely was Catapilla. There's the
same use of jazz-rock elements
on a jazz-bluesy basement.
Another reference imho is Affinity
in their jamming moments.
I'm new to this band but, having just downloaded it, I'm liking the sound of it very much. Many thanks for introducing me to something new and exciting.
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