Comments for Camel, The Snow Goose

"The Snow Goose" is early Camel: the four piece consisting of Andy Latimer (guitar/flute/vocal noises), Pete Bardens (keyboards), Andy Ward (drums/percussion) and Doug Ferguson bass/duffle coat, for Snow Goose''s wings flapping). There are no lyrics. It is a true concept album based on Paul Gallico''s wonderful novella, "The Snow Goose." This album is filled with great melodies and individual character-based musical pieces ( a little like Prokofiev''s "Peter and the Wolf" in places, four-piece progressive rock in others). There is a full orchestra in the background, occasionally the orchestral instruments are featured up front as well. This is considered by many to be (early) Camel''s finest album (up against "Mirage) and, although not so polished as the later Latimer stuff, it still sounds fantastic. It is an utterly unique listening experience (and very pleasant as well), Ian Thomas

As good as progressive gets