Five Day Rain

автор hiped Вс Сен 20, 2009 9:32 pm

Artist: Five Day Rain
Country: UK
Album: Five Day Rain
Year: 1970 (reissue - 2006, Night Wings)
Label: Private
Style: Progressive rock
Genre: Heavy-psych, blues, pop
Format: FLAC (separate) +CUE+LOG+SCANS
Size: 364 Mb
Source: my CD collection

Полное собрание найденных сочинений легендарной группы от Night Wings Records, чьи редкие релизы становятся знаковым событием для истории рок-музыки.

Only album, previously unreleased, by the obscure British group Five Day Rain, led by guitarist / singer Rick Sharpe and including keyboardist Graham Maitland. The short-lived group managed to record quite an excellent album, which unfortunately was never released, seeing the light of the day only 36 years later. Their music was a great mixture of Psychedelic Rock and Prog, somewhat similar to the early Deep Purple albums. Great tunes, splendid vocal harmonies and one 11+ minutes long instrumental track, which alone is worth the price of the album. As bonus material four unfinished tracks, recorded at the time the album was recorded, were completed by Sharpe in 2005. Definitely a lost gem, worth reviving and listening to after all these years. (RATEYOURMUSIC)

Factory/Fleur de Lys connected early '70s UK psych monster with all the right moves. Sounds like the aforementioned bands with dash of Ogden's period Small Faces. Great guitar work particularly on the long trippy instumental "Rough Cut Marmalade".This tasty re-issue contains bonus tracks tracks as well, four or them never heard before. They were recorded same time of the album but never completed. Ricky Sharpe added some vocal and a bit of guitar only and they are heavier then the already known ones! The 12 pages booklet features the band's detailed story, with never-seen-before photos and Sharpe's own funny anecdotes, while John Hurford has generously created brand new artwork for the cover. Ace album. (Freak Emporium)

THE SONGS

1. Marie’s A Woman 2’54’’
2. Don’t Be Mislead 2’20’’
3. Good Year 4’03’’
4. Fallout 3’32’’
5. Leave It At That 5’22’’
6. The Reason Why 4’44’’
7. Sea Song 4’13’’
8. Rough Cut Marmalade 11’05’’
9. Lay Me Down 1’16’’
10. Too Much Of Nothing 3’38’’
11. Antonia 3’14’’
12. So Don’t Worry 3’28’’
13. The Boy 5’46’’
14. Wanna Make Love To You 4’58’’

THE MUSICIANS
Rick Sharpe: guitars / vocals / harmonica / percussion
Graham Maitland: keyboards / accordion / vocals
Clive Shepherd: bass guitar / vocals
Kim Haworth: drums
John Holbrook: guitars
Sharon Tandy, Lynn Maitland: backing vocals
Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, Dan Peek: backing vocals