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Title
Asylum
EAN
4009910222416
Edition
12" Album
Release Date
27/10/2014
No Of Discs
1
Producer
Ossie Byrne
MPN
V119
UPC
4009910222416
Artist
Cressida
Type
LP
Format
Vinyl
Record Label
Repertoire
Release Year
1971
Release Title
Asylum
Style
Progressive Rock
Genre
Rock

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Record Label
Repertoire
UPC
4009910222416
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7050161959

Product Key Features

Artist
Cressida
Format
Vinyl
Release Year
1971
Style
Progressive Rock
Release Title
Asylum
Type
LP
Genre
Rock

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USA
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Cressida includes; Angus Cullen (vocals). More highly melodic progressive rock, this time built around longer songs and extended instrumental passages -- among the latter, "Munich," which was alternately titled "Munich 1938: Appeasement Was the Cry; Munich 1970: Mine to Do or Die," was surprisingly accessible at nine minutes and change, built on Peter Jennings' extended organ cadenzas embellished with John Culley's crisp electric guitar flourishes, all wrapped around a pleasing array of melodies that easily carry the song's length. The three extended numbers that comprised the original LP's side two also make for fascinating listening, Angus Cullen's McCartneyesque vocals calling to mind the Moody Blues in their prime, while the band's hard, at times slightly jazzy, instrumental attack evokes echoes of Caravan with, perhaps, a touch of the most energetic of Deep Purple's Jon Lord-spawned classical experiments. The group's downfall may have been their reliance on virtuosity, as opposed to raw wattage and brute force in their attack -- with Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Keith Emerson was bringing crowds of 20,000 teenagers at a time to their feet by abusing his organ, while as part of Cressida, Peter Jennings on "Let Them Come When They Will" plays the kind of break that would have wowed them in a club in front of maybe 200 people (while Cullen's singing takes on a resemblance to Jim Morrison in the middle of the track). It's all sort of the difference between relating to one's music and audience on a retail basis, as opposed to wholesale -- Cressida never got past the former, and it makes Asylum a very pleasing album but also a very demanding one. ~ Bruce Eder
Reviews
Record Collector (magazine) (p.88) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[With] luscious orchestral arrangements and the presence of peerless flautist Harold McNair..."
Number of discs
1

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