JUNIPHER GREENE - FRIENDSHIP - PROG ROCK - NEW DOUBLE LP
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JUNIPHER GREENE - FRIENDSHIP - PROG ROCK - NEW DOUBLE LP
Try To Understand 4:49 Witches Daughter 3:28 Music For Our Children 7:07 A Spectre Is Haunting The Peninsula 2:53 Sunrise / Sunset 4:10 Magical Garden 7:09 Autumn Diary 1:53 Maurice 4:24 Attila's Belly-Dance 0:39 Friendship Prelude: Take The Road Across The Bridge 6:11 Friendship 2:23 Interlude 2:43 Mountain Voices 3:07 Land Of The Foxes / Friendship That's Earned 1:26 Into The Cloudburst 2:57 Manitou's Skylands & Down To Earth 3:33 Friendship 2:02
Double LP 180gr vinyl,thick paste on cover.Classic DOUBLE ALBUM from thIs great early 70's Normegian HEAVY/PRGRESSIVE/PSYCH-ROCK band JUNIPHER GREENE. "
When Junipher Greene released their historic debut album Friendship (called a "milestone" in European progressive rock") in 1971 they became the first Norwegian band ever to release a double LP. These 18 tracks, characterized by their incisive guitar solos, prominent flute and excellent songwriting, are progressive rock at its very best. One of the Genre's true masterworks."
Junipher Greene asks of the listener: "Try to understand, we think you can". This is how Friendship blasts out of the gates, and it doesn't stop that momentum to the last note some one hour plus later. With lethal fuzz guitar, stuttering flute, impassioned vocals, and a hyper rhythm section, Friendship is one of the gems of the Continental European progressive rock scene of the early 70s. Isolated in faraway Norway - especially for the era - it's an extraordinary 2 LP release, and is arguably the Nordic country's first progressive rock album. And quite possibly the very best too until modern times.You'll often read that due to the length of the album, there are weak tracks or filler throughout. I just cannot agree, and do not hear what those tracks might be. Well, OK, 'Attila's Belly-Dance' is a bit silly, but at 39 seconds I think we can survive that. The worst song here, in my estimation, is 'Witches' Daughter', and after a molten guitar lead mid section, it just merely falls to excellent verse sublime. The stretch from 'Music for Our Children' through 'Magical Garden' is absolutely divine, each one diverse, but still energetic and highly melodic. Then comes the album's one-two punch. 'Maurice' is at the very top of what I call "flute groovers". The listener is mesmerized as one great melody after another is introduced while maintaining a head bobbing and ever changing rhythm. A masterpiece, only to be followed (after silly bit as mentioned above) by the brilliant 'Prelude: Take the Road Across the Bridge', with its killer Hammond/guitar combo. Interesting to note that Freddy Dahl covered this track later with his next vehicle Saluki, a decidedly more jazz and funk oriented band, and yet it remains a 5 star classic there as well. All this leads to the multi-part "side 4" title suite, which recalls the run of tracks starting with 'Music for Our Children'. In conclusion, Friendship is one of the all-time greats and is not to be missed.
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