THE SNOW GOOSE

Camel

Symphonic Prog

4.30 | 2610 ratings

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Uruk_hai

Review #127

"The Snow Goose" is a whole instrumental work built over 16 short songs. It has become one of the most beloved albums in Camel's discography. The mixture of Rock, Classical, and a little bit of Jazz music made this album an exquisite piece. The songs go from jazzy and almost Canterbury Scene stylized songs to very relaxed and slow pieces. Most of the time, it contains very melodic and symphonic music but also a subtle powerful rock once in a while. Andrew Latimer played some of his best guitar solos while Peter Bardens filled the albums with the most creative organ and piano lines ("Fritha alone" is one of the most beautiful piano songs I've ever heard and lasts less than two minutes).

The orchestral arrangements this album contains are majestic, I can find this kind of albums in very few albums, the ones that I like the most are this album and The Moody Blues' "Days of future passed" (both labeled by Decca). Even in Progressive Rock, total instrumental albums were not very common; the only use of human voice is the vocalizing in "Migration", further than that the album is completely instrumental, so this was a very different record if we compare it with the rest of the Camel albums released before and after this one. The vibe on this album is almost ambient music; highly recommended album for those who enjoy instrumental and relaxing rock albums.

SONG RATING: The great marsh, 4 Rhayader, 5 Rhayader goes to town, 5 Sanctuary, 5 Fritha, 5 The Snow Goose, 5 Friendship, 5 Migration, 5 Rhayader alone, 4 Flight of the Snow Goose, 5 Preparation, 5 Drunkirk, 5 Epitaph, 4 Fritha alone, 5 La Princesse Perdue, 5 The great marsh (reprise), 3

AVERAGE: 4.69

PERCENTAGE: 93.75

ALBUM RATING: 5 stars

I ranked this album #71 on my TOP 100 favorite Progressive Rock albums of all time.

Uruk_hai | 5/5 | 2021-11-6

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