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Capability Brown - Voice (1973, remaster 2008)
 00:38:46 |320kb mp3
Progressive Rock, Progressive Folk, Art Rock | Label: Second Harvest (USA) 438

One of the classic albums of the '70's. Great band who only released two studio albums in the early '70's and than broke up suddenly. The second one Voice from 1973 is the best from them. All pieces are good but the last track and the longest Circumstances is mindblowing, with fine arrangements, grandoius choruses and smooth atmosphere. Something to mention is that Brian May and even Freddy Mercury were big fans of Capability Brown in the early years of Queen.

“Voice is a terrific album, one of the better albums of the 70's featuring excellent covers of songs by Affinity and Steely Dan, yet including the masterpiece Circumstances. The album starts with an excellently performed cover of I Am and So Are You by Affinity, blending the bands' harmonies into the Affinity song, and performing it much better overall. Nothing against Affinity here, actually, you Affinity fans should really consider buying this album.

The song then moves on to an original song, acoustic, called Sad Am I. This song is the weak part of the album, mostly recommended to the fans of the folk-trilogy days of Jethro Tull.

Then comes a brilliant cover of Midnight Cruiser by Steely Dan. Very rocky with excellent guitar lines in the chorus. I can't say this is better than Steely Dan's version, but I can say it's "different", in the best way different can be.

This next song, and also the final song of the first side is Keep Death off the Road (Drive on the Pavement). Keep Death off the Road is a bluesy song, with heavily distorted, and very fuzzy guitars.

Then comes the masterpiece of this album, Circumstances. Circumstances is a 20 minute song, with a different style for every one of it's parts, In Love, Past, Present, and Future Meet. The song starts sort of quiet, with a weird buzuki-sounding riff, adding istruments until fading into the guitar solo of Dave Nevin (I think), based on the same buzuki riff as before. The song then transforms into an a capella, featuring all 6 members of the band singing in harmony, making it sound like a choir. The song then continues into this folky acoustic part, pretty low-volumed, but still extremely cool. This part comes back after a few other parts, which aren't as good as the previous parts.

Voice will be very enjoyable by fans of Queen, using many harmonies in their songs, especially Circumstances. Jethro Tull fans, as there are a lot of Prog Folk influences throughout the album, and last but not least, the genre of this album, Crossover Prog fans.

~The Runaway, from The Prog Archives
”


Tracklist

1. I Am And So Are You [03:58]
2. Sad Am I [03:51]
3. Midnight Cruiser [03:53]
4. Keep Death Off the Road (Drive on the Pavement) [06:21]
5. Circumstances: (In Love, Past, Present, Future Meet) [20:43]

Total time 00:38:46

Personnel:
Tony Ferguson - Vocals, Guitar, Bass
Dave Nevin - Keyboards, Guitar, Vocals, Bass
Kenny Rowe - Bass, Vocals, Percussion
Grahame White - Vocals, Guitar, Bass
Joe Williams - Vocals, Percussion
Roger Willis - Vocals, Drums, Keyboards