Camel

Camel Artist: Camel
Label: Camel Productions
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 741299000226
EAN: 0741299000226
ASIN: B000024YYM


Release Date: 1992-08-24

Camel


Related Categories:

Britain Britain
Categories | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music
General General
Categories | Rock | Styles | Music
Progressive Rock Progressive Rock
Categories | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music
Pop Rock Pop Rock
Categories | Pop | Styles | Music
Progressive Progressive
Categories | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music
Rock Rock
Categories | Imports | Stores | Music

Tracks:

  1. Slow Yourself Down
  2. Mystic Queen
  3. Six Ate
  4. Separation
  5. Never Let Go
  6. Curiosity
  7. Arubaluba

Similar Items:

  1. Moonmadness
  2. Mirage
  3. The Snow Goose
  4. A Live Record
  5. In the Land of Grey and Pink

Album Description

Digitally remastered 1992 reissue on Camel Productions of the veteran prog act's debut, originally released on MCA in 1973. Contains seven tracks, including 'Slow Yourself Down' and 'Mystic Queen'.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Unbelievably great.......2003-06-24

This first Camel album contains Camel's best. Well, Mirage is superb as well, but this and Mirage together are the pinnacle for this little known (at least in the US) group that I highly recommend to all.

Camel is unusual upon first listening. Some of its beats and rhymns are syncopated in a way that does not appeal upon your first exposure to the group. I simply didn't like Camel when I first heard it. It grew on me in a short time however, and has become of my top 10 albums of all time. Great keyboards, flutes (a Camel signature), and good rock that is powerful, emotional, and yet dreamy on occasion -- all of this puts it into a space rock category along with Pink Floyd, Alan Parsons, and Ambrosia for me.

5 out of 5 stars A Classic Debut.......2002-08-27

Camel's first record is a masterpiece of melodic progressive rock. Like the self titled Kansas debut, Camel's first production is very powerful indeed. Whereas many progressive bands have shaped their sound and identity with their second or third record, (like Eloy and Pink Floyd), Camel had their progressive sound polished from the start.
This album is simply very beautiful, and tracks like Never Let go, a must in all Camel's live shows to this day, are very melodic, complex, meditative, with great guitar and keyboard jamming from Andy Latimer and the late Pete Bardens.
However, save from Never Let Go, it is the least known of Camel's records, and their most underrated. For those fans, who love Camel in their symphonic revival post Dust and Dreams, should check this record. Although it has psychedelic influences and is similar in sound to Mirage, and not as atmospheric as Dust and Dreams and Rajaz, it is nevertheless very original and a clear indication of how talented and original Camel are.
This is a must buy for all progressive rock fans and music lovers,to enjoy for years to come.

5 out of 5 stars

Music Album:

  1. Crisis? What Crisis? ~ Supertramp
  2. Beat the Drum ~ Pallas
  3. Little Kix ~ Mansun
  4. Hits of 1993 ~ Various Artists
  5. What Goes Around ~ Celtus
  6. The Roots Of Rock: 80's New Wave ~ Various Artists
  7. Fin ~ Crispy Ambulance
  8. The Gurus Are Hear! ~ The Gurus
  9. Drums Along the Hudson ~ The Bongos
  10. Rock Live from Mountain Stage ~ Various Artists

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

Flora's Song ~ Flora Purim

You Are Not Alone ~ Kim Waters

What Happens? ~ Art Farmer & Phil Woods

Departure ~ Dan St. Marseille

Lee's Keys Please ~ Cadence All-Stars

Box ~ Celso Fonseca, Ronaldo Bastos

Tamba Trio Classics ~ Tamba Trio

Liricas ~ Zeca Baleiro

Votz Deus Anjos: Polyphony from Bearn and Pyrenees

Kirinji Rmx2 ~ Kirinji