DELIRED CAMELEON FAMILY [AKA: VISA DE CENSURE N°X (OST)]

An oddity in the Clearlight discography, Delired Camelon Family was originally produced as a movie soundtrack, and this is evident in the multiple personalities the album expresses. Much of the time, the album chugs along in a pleasant mode which resembles a hybrid of New Age music and space rock, with the occasional reference to the band's pals in Gong (such as some female vocals which sound, at points, a lot like the "space whispers" that Gilli Smyth or Miquette Giraudy brought to the Gong sound).

Towards the end of the album this approach is abandoned, with the last two tracks being particular non-sequiteurs. Novavanna degenerates into an overlong hippy rock and roll track, with the vocalist demanding various varieties of drugs which might have been intended as shocking but just comes across as juvenile and stupid. Ananta is some Canterburyish fusion which spends a long time building up to some sort of crescendo but doesn't ultimately go anywhere interesting. Between them, they take up around half the album.

It certainly makes a chance from the debut, but not in a good way. Save this for if you find yourself getting seriously into the Clearlight discography.