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Track Listings
| 1. Marie Antoinette |
| 2. Melinda (More Or Less) |
| 3. Not Quite The Same |
| 4. Cheetah |
| 5. Ultra-Vivaldi |
| 6. Phantasmagoria |
| 7. Whose Shoulder Are You Looking Over Anyway |
| 8. Over And Above |
| 9. Once Always A Ghost |
Product Description
Album Description
Top 20 in the UK when it was released in 1972, includes 'Marie Antoinette'. Original artwork and new liner notes. Prime prog-rock! Standard jewel case. 2000 release.
Album Details
Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
An Album Even Casper Would Love!!!,
By chris meesey Food Czar (The Colony, TX United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Phantasmagoria (Audio CD)
That wonderful progressive British band Curved Air, featuring that delicious, sensual singer Sonja Kristina, released their third album in 1972. Called Phantasmagoria (and reportedly inspired by the Lewis Carroll poem), this album boasted world-class playing and state of the art electronics. (Today, some of the electronics don't seem so state of the art as they did in '72; ah, well, life goes on and all that!) "Marie Antoinette" is an absolutely gorgeous, moving epic about the French Revolution and the queen who lost her head; this song starts slowly by design and moves relentlessly toward it's final climax; Darryl Way (violin and keyboards) and Francis Monkman (guitar and more keyboards) are especially good on this number."Melinda (More or Less)" is Curved Air's most achingly beautiful song and has a pastoral feel; here, Sonja heightens the young woman's internal struggle by playing down the vocals. Sheer Perfection! "Not Quite the Same" is a swift, horn-laden ditty that Onan would love! (Look it up!) "Cheetah" is even swifter and features Way's "whirling dervish" violin. Fabulous! "Over and Above" is the highlight of the "Phantasmagoria Suite" and features the band at their most mature with a jazzy, classical epic that sums up the album's themes to perfection. All the players are incredible here, especially the horns and percussion! Sheer Excitement! "Once a Ghost, Always a Ghost" is nothing more than a ghoulish cocktail party. What delightful fun! In short, it doesn't matter whether you get this album in this life or the afterlife, just get this album! It's truly Phantasmagoricalirific!!!
4.0 out of 5 stars
Curved air steers towards the stuff by Gentle Giant !!,
By Lethe "lor68" (Milan, Italy) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Phantasmagoria (Audio CD)
By means of this third album, Curved Air changed direction from the point of view of their composition, starting to be closer to some stuff by Gentle Giant (for instance the track "Over and above", which reminds me of "Octopus")...moreover the presence of instruments -such as vibe and xilophone-maintains such influence,clearly visible all along the duration of this album!! Instead the track "Whose shoulder are you looking over anyway" represents the electronic side of the band, with the vocals electronically distorted, by Kristina.. the rest of the album is in the vein of this typical experimental folk by Curved Air, a true trademark!!
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not my favorite Curved Air album,
By A Customer
This review is from: Phantasmagoria (Audio CD)
This album has some superb material, but also (to me) some complete ....I love the track Marie Antionette, but it starts off very bland and Sonja's voice is just too smooth. There are versions of this song elsewhere in Curved Air's repertoire, which are better. Melinda is marvelous, but Ultra Vivaldi is the pits. The second side also has it's highs and it's lows. If I was on a budget, I would buy Curved Air recordings in the order in which they were produced. ie. Air Conditioning, followed by Second Album, followed by this one.
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