Label: Sunrise Records (Europe), 30523032
Style: Canterbury Scene, Progressive Rock, Avant-garde, Instrumental
Country: London, England
Time: 40:24
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 227 Mb
The
Civil Surface is the third and final studio album by the English
progressive rock band Egg, originally released in 1974 on Caroline
Records. The band had broken up in 1972, leaving some of their favourite
stage pieces unrecorded. At organist Dave Stewart's suggestion, the
trio re-united solely to record these final numbers. Among the guest
musicians on the album are Steve Hillage (guitar), Lindsay Cooper (oboe,
bassoon) and vocalists Amanda Parsons, Ann Rosenthal and Barbara
Gaskin.
Listeners have complained that the drums are mixed too loud
on the album's organ trio pieces. In an article written for the UK
fanzine Ptolemaic Terrascope in 1990 (quoted in Mark Powell's liner
notes of the Esoteric Recordings CD re-release), Stewart explains that
it was the unbending wish of drummer Clive Brooks that his drums be
featured prominently in the mix, and that the other members were unable
to persuade him otherwise.
In a 2007 review for website All About
Jazz, John Kelman wrote, "The Civil Surface reflects widening interests,
with Stewart's greater jazz-centricity and wryly melodic Canterbury
flavor most notable on the longer tracks "Germ Patrol," "Enneagram" and
"Wring Out the Ground (Loosely Now)" ... The complex writing—episodic
tracks filled with complex meters, rich harmonies and tight
arrangements, as well as some strong solos—bears an unmistakable link to
Hatfield but, with Campbell's rigorous classicism an equal part of the
equation, it still sounds like Egg."
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Civil_Surface)
01. Germ Patrol (08:30)
02. Wind Quartet 1 (02:20)
03. Enneagram (09:07)
04. Prelude (04:17)
05. Wring Out the Ground Loosely Now (08:11)
06. Nearch (03:11)
07. Wind Quartet 2 (04:46)
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