HW: yes I do believe in (Pink) Fairies!

[J Strobridge]

Paradise Island:

ok - I have to admit I like at least one track of this album.   And since
half of the album is taken up by that one track then I have no regrets
at all about purchasing this one!

There are six tracks - the first five are ok and I was preparing to
think I'd got a competent but not particularly exciting album.  Guitar
work is *excellent* but music style is a bit strange.  First track has
atmosphere, the next two edge further into a country music style than I
normally enjoy while the Man with a Golden Gun should have been shot at
conception (IMO).   Jungle Drums is a drum instrumental which sounds
startlingly like O Yuki Conjugate.

And then came the final track.   This *is* amazing.   It starts off
similar to Douglas In The Jungle with drums and a simple bass riff
and then builds with some keyboards? and finally the lead guitar
that just flows wonderfully across the top.   After 15 mins of
this track I defy anyone who normally listens to Hawkwind-type space
music not to be jigging around to it!   It is simply one long
instrumental jam session (30 mins of it) in the very best Cosmic
Jokers / early Hawkwind style.

If you don't like long trance-like guitar sessions don't even think
about it.

But I think it's terrific!

cheers

jill

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J.D.Strobridge at ed.ac.uk                         eset08 at tattoo.ed.ac.uk
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