Label: Esoteric Recordings (Europe), ECLEC 2492
Style: Art Rock, Progressive Rock
Country: United Kingdom
Time: 51:16
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 318 Mb
The
House on the Hill is Audience's strongest effort, made up of simple,
elegantly arranged songs, focusing around Howard Werth's "electric
classical" guitar and Keith Gemmel's tenor sax and clarinet. "Jackdaw"
has Werth showing off his vocal range by hollering out the chorus in
full force. "Raviole" is an instrumental piece painted with lovely
acoustic guitar and is one of the real gems on the album. There's not a
lot of meat on each of the songs, but the use of flute and vibraphone
give this album a unique feel and is deemed interesting mainly for that
purpose. The overall atmosphere is quite comfortable, and the
hypnotizing effect aroused from the woodwind instruments creates an
absorbing mood one might not expect to find here. Snippets of jazz
fusion make up the title track, overlapped with some rich saxophone
playing. After a few listens, this band slowly rises from being heard to
being enjoyable.
(allmusic.com/album/the-house-on-the-hill-mw0000264078)
01. Jackdraw (07:30)
02. You're Not Smiling (05:21)
03. I Had a Dream (04:18)
04. Raviole (03:41)
05. Nancy (04:15)
06. Eye to Eye (02:32)
07. I Put a Spell on You (04:09)
08. House on the Hill (07:32)
09. You're Not Smiling (Single Mix) (04:18)
10. Indian Summer (Single Edition) (03:17)
11. You're Not Smiling (Promotional Radio Version) (04:17)
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