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Behind a ghastly cheap cover, this gemstone is hidden. Ignore it at your peril. I walked past it several times in the local record-store before I had a look at this webpage and then ran back to the shop. The shop even gave me a very generous discount and the CD was mine. My point is; this album is easy to ignore as cheap worthless stuff. It is not !

The sound is brilliant from beginning to end. The first three tracks (of the in total four tracks) Love In Your Eye, For Richard, The Dab Song Concerto and Hoedown is all lengthy song. They clocks in at over fifteen minutes long each. They are filled with lenghty solos and improvisations in the best Canterbury scene tradition. The music is both playful and intelligent. It is also swinging like mad and I am dancing at the same time as writing these lines. Thank God for the laptop computers ! The violins of Geoff Richardson, the guitars of Pye Hastings and the keyboards of David Sinclair often goes into lenghty solos. Lenghty and infectious playful. The rest of the band is superb too and I cannot fault them on anything. I do not know the studio versions of Love In Your Eye, For Richard and The Dab Song Concerto. But these live versions are really great.

The last song Hoedown are a much more stripped down Caravan song and probably the weakest song of them all. It is only five minutes long too. I really enjoy the first three songs and this album is for me a solid kick up my backside and will lead me to go back to the Caravan albums. With the exception of In The Land Of Grey & Pink, I have not been listening to their albums for ages. This live album is highly recommended for anyone into Caravan and the Canterbury Scene.

3.75 stars.

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