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I used to have the vinyl but it got way too expensive so bought the CD which has the bonus of 4 demos of Pye playing acoustic. Love the 6 pages of Mark Powell's sleevenotes & the sound quality of the cd too. Though Dave Sinclair had left to join Matching Mole, it was this line-up I saw at Weely Festival in August, 1971. Later I saw them at the Marquee where at the end of their set, Richard Coughlan had to be carried off stage by the roadies giving new meaning to 'Catch Me a Brother'.
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“Waterloo Lily” was released as far back as 1972; yet in some places it still sounds very refreshing and modern. With Steve Miller ‘guesting’ on the keyboards the album is documented as having ‘a jazzier feel’. Whilst that may be so for some tracks; on many it’s the same as always for a Caravan album. i.e. Good songs, well-written and well-performed. The somewhat quirky opener and title track remains a favourite and at 6:45 it has plenty of opportunity to diversify with each musician getting to lay down their bit. Pye Hastings guitar mixes with Miller’s keyboards (which includes a wonderful jazz solo where he’s joined by saxophone), Richard Coughlan’s drums and Richard Sinclair’s bass buzzing throughout. Track two is actually two songs intertwined (not that Caravan had ever done that before!) and at 10-minutes it is again a great adventure into jazz rock instrumentation. Miller wrote the more sedate middle passage where he solo’s on piano before being joined by the band members again before slowly building the tempo up as the track closes. Wonderful stuff. “Songs And Signs” is another with the dual singing of Hastings and Sinclair working wonderfully either side of the bass and keyboards section which is sublime. This album’s ‘long’ track is its highlight; “The Love In Your Eye” features not only members of the BBC Radio Orchestra of the time but also a wonderful flute-solo by Jimmy Hastings. I shan’t indulge in my admiration but suffice to say I love it. The bonus CD features 4 new tracks; but in fact it’s only 3! The first two are Pye demos which are both quite poor in quality of recording; however there is a track called “Looking Left, Looking Right” (which includes “Pye's Loop”) which is a full-studio recording which never made the original album release - shame as it’s another of Caravan’s unreleased gems. I haven’t even mentioned the tracks “Aristocracy” or “The World Is Yours” and that’s not because their ‘duff’; far from it they are quite strong songs in their own right. Due to its slightly ‘different’ sound “Waterloo Lily” may not be as easily accessible as some Caravan releases; whereas others may find it different and very welcoming! I certainly find that it takes a few spins more when it’s been off the player for a while; to truly appreciate all of the tracks – but overall it’s a very, very competent recording.Read full review
Bought to augment my original vinal.Very pleased with the purchase.The bonus tracks put on re-issuses like this are usually tracks that arn't really good enough to be released at the time and sure enough a couple on this cd are a bit boring but as this cd is such excelent value and I have all the tracks that I wanted in the fist place then a bonus is all these tracks can be.
Excellent recording
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