PRESENT FROM NANCY

Well, Supersister is among the five best Canterbury scene bands, based on their first four albums and the live album. I reviewed that one year ago and simply forgot the rest of their album. I was therefore very pleased to finally dust this album of again and give it some spins.

The music here is pretty close to Caravan....... with a lot of xtra influences like Hatfield & The North, Soft Machine, Egg, Gong and Focus. The latter one is added due to the pretty similar use of flute and their similar approach to symphonic prog. But Supersister is most of all a Canterbury scene band through and through. Supersister may be the end product if Wilde Flowers had not split into Caravan and Soft Machine.

Intricate rhythm patterns litters this album. There are both very melodic stuff here and Soft Machine like avant-garde jazz. I have to say the best stuff here is the ones where they follow the Caravan way of doing things. Supersister's vocalist is pretty similar in style to Richard Sinclair too and a major part of their sound. The music is sometimes pretty funny with some wild drum patterns.

This is in short an album of highest quality. Only the last song Dona Nobis Pacem are pretty substandard. The rest of this album is brilliant and I rate it very highly.

4.25 stars

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