CREATURES OF THE NIGHT

Jeff Clyne and Brian Miller's post-Isotope project produced this debut album for the Gull label, which is mostly known these days for having been Judas Priest's home for their first two albums. No metal here though - instead, jazz fusion in the school of Return To Forever is the order of the day, along with wordless vocals from Pepi Lemer in a voice-as- instrument style reminiscent of many Canterbury groups. (Indeed, the band would support National Health on some concerts during their brief existence). It's a solid album which, naturally, sank like a stone in the commercial environment of the time, but thank goodness groups like this were defying fashion and continuing to carve out a space for progressive music in a time when the industry had decided to largely turn its back on this sort of thing.

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Posted Wednesday, March 11, 2020 | Review this album | Report (Review #2341366)

TURNING POINT were a British Jazz-Rock/Fusion band of the late 1970's with two albums to their credit:- "Creatures of the Night" (1977) and "Silent Promise" (1978). They emerged from the remnants of another short-lived Jazz-Rock/Fusion band by the name of Isotope. Turning Point are closely assoc ... (read more)

Report this review (#2340251) | Posted by Psychedelic Paul | Thursday, March 5, 2020 | Review Permanlink

Including two members of UK fusion band Isotope (Jeff Clyne and Brian Miller), Turning Point released two albums (1977, 1978) on the same label (Gull). Without the "fire and fury" of Gary Boyle's guitar (wonderful though it was) Turning Point offered us melodic jazz/fusion in the same area as Ian ... (read more)

Report this review (#2236738) | Posted by fenman | Tuesday, July 9, 2019 | Review Permanlink

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