Label: DSINCS Music (Japan), DSINCS CD8
Style: Progressive Rock, Pop Rock
Country: Herne Bay, Kent, England (November 24, 1947)
Time: 61:28
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 392 Mb
Dave Sinclair ex. Matching Mole (1971-72), Hatfield and the North (1972-73), Polite Force (1976-77), Camel (1978-1979), Caravan.
The
former Caravan keyboard tinkler is far from Canterbury these days - he
lives in Japan - and pops out a solo album every four or five years. He
was sacked from Caravan some time back over musical differences but,
quite frankly, his solo material is so similar to what his old bandmate
Pye Hastings produces these days you’d be hard-pushed to slip a
thinly-sliced piece of sushi in the gap between them.
Out Of Sinc is a
collection of pleasant but mostly unremarkable ballads - melodic and
well produced but relying upon some hoary old musical and lyrical
cliches. Too many clouds in the sky, hearts feeling free and reaching
for the stars - lines that really shouldn’t come from the pen of a grown
man.
Wisely, Sinclair gives most of the lead vocals to a very
tuneful young lady called Yammy as his voice is a bit thin and
undistinguished, and he is supported by a large cast of musicians
including old bandmates Pye, Doug Boyle and Geoff Richardson.
There
are one or two interesting moments. If I Run thunders along quite nicely
thanks to some busy drumming from Jim Bashford (appropriate name
there), fluid guitar solos from Takuya Yada and an appealing
instrumental section featuring Tony Coe’s clarinet. Sadly, however,
there is some unfortunate use of a Vocoder on Sinclair’s voice - the
only way to properly utilise a Vocoder is to take it into the garden and
demolish it with a sledgehammer.
The simple but winsome Island Of
Dreams has an honest, waltz-time charm about it and Home Again manages
to remain interesting throughout its 18 minutes. But anyone expecting
Nine Feet Underground, Pt2 will be bitterly disappointed - it stays
firmly in piano ballad territory, lifted by some welcome guitar work
from Camel’s Andy Latimer.
The rest is really too mellow, predictable
and unimaginative for my tastes and suggests Sinclair is resting a
little too comfortably on his laurels. Perhaps this is the work of
someone who wants to take things easy these days - he suffers an
irregular heartbeat that two operations have failed to correct. So he is
out of sync. See what he did there?
Respect to Dave for continuing
to make music after 50 years in the business. But Out Of Sinc shows he’s
musically, as well as geographically, far from Canterbury.
(theprogressiveaspect.net/blog/2018/07/09/dave-sinclair-out-of-sinc/) Review by Kevan Furbank. 9 July 2018
01. Blue Eyes (06:44)
02. Back With You (05:21)
03. If I Run (06:36)
04. On My own (04:49)
05. Home Again (17:54)
06. Crazie Blue (05:18)
07. Island Of Dreams (03:42)
08. Out World (05:14)
09. Rings Around The Moon (05:48)
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