Sahara - For All The Clowns
SKU
18-OHRWASCHL21
"Their third and last album sacrificed some of their signature-sound in favour of clearer influences from other progressive rock bands, mainly Camel, Jethro Tull, Gentle Giant and Barclay James Harvest. But "For All the Clowns" was still their best album, as it featured their strongest and most consistent songwriting ever. The pop progressive opener "Flying Dancer" may make you a little bit doubtful at first listen, but it grows on you to be a really enjoyable and catchy track. "The Source" is a two-part track with a strong Barclay James Harvest/Pink Floyd feel. The first minutes of the title-track have some very obvious Gentle Giant-influences and sounds very beautiful and atmospheric. Then the track goes into a melodic part with guitar and organ very typical for this band. The last part of the track includes some cool and very German-sounding spacey synth-sounds. "The Mountain King" is a great 13-minute two-part suite with Tull-sounding flute, Gentle Giant-ish synths, mellotron and tons of great themes and parts. Every progressive rock fan will like this! "Dream Queen" can very well be their most beautiful track ever; with a wonderful melody and atmospheric flute that gradually gets more Tull-sounding at the end of the track. This is undoubtedly the album to get by this band." - Vintage Prog