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Epic Forest
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Track Listing
- Baby Listen
- Hey Man
- House In The City
- Epic Forest
- Turning The Lights Out
- Her Darkest Hour
- Fears Of The Night
- Turn It All Around
- Title No 1 Again (Birdman)
- Roadside Welcome
- Four Grey Walls
- You're Lost
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #53287 in Music
- Released on: 2007-02-19
- Number of discs: 1
- Format: Extra tracks
- Dimensions: .22 pounds
Customer Reviews
Gone but not forgotten
Why this album was so hard to find on CD these days is something that completely foxed me. I was lucky enough to buy a copy a while back in the short space of time that it was available from a French/German CD reissue, and am happy to see that it is now on more available general release. The 'Epic Forest' album is a wonderful, laid-back example of 1970's melodic rock, and by far the best offering from the ever-changing Rare Bird lineup. The mix of instruments involved was for the moment perfectly in-tune, and at a time when bands were dominated more by a sound than style or content, Rare Bird provided the perfect blend of quality and quantity, alluring, moving, inviting, alienating no-one. Ever since the moment I first bought this album, and for all the years to follow, nothing I have heard has found its way so easily to my soul, and nothing since has stayed so long.
As it says EPIC!
To any of you prog fans who have come to this review because of other titles I have reviewed I can only say congratulations as you have come across one of the truly great under-rated prog albums of the 1970s. I was introduced to this group by a friend of mine who owns a music shop and he asked me to trawl the net to find this album. He was much surprised when I found it straight away on Amazon (well done to them).
The album is an eclectic mix of styles taking in Jazz, West Coast Pop, Blues and many others all brought together in an remarkable mix, more so since it is on one album and by one group.
This group initially started eschewing guitars and had just 2 keyboard players bass and drums on their first 2 albums but to obtain a different sound they recruited a not one but 2 guitarists (one being Steve Gould their existing vocalist) when their main keyboard player Graham Field left. The sound produced became similar to Wishbone Ash but without the overt 2 guitar attack of that band.
This is very enjoyable and one can see the influence they had on other prog bands of the 1970s
