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If - If 2 (1970)

Postado por CesinhaBiker às 04:52

by request - If’s second album perfectly complements the first, the songwriting generally isn’t as strong but includes one of their best songs “Sunday Sad”.

The first track “Your City is Falling” is very up-tempo fast jazz playing and includes a great sax solo, and also good keyboards from John Mealing and drums from Dennis Elliot. The slower eight-minute “Sunday Sad” has a spanish guitar style and flute intro, with a haunting vocal from JW Hodkinson. The song builds into a Chicago style jam and features some good keyboard and heavy guitar solos, very reminiscent of early King Crimson dare I say. Not such a sad song at all. The next track the up-tempo “Tarmac T Pirate and the Lonesome Nymphomaniac” features some great interplay between the band members. Another oustanding eight-minute track, the rock orientated “I Couldn’t Write and Tell You” ebbs and flows around solid keyboards and drums . The AOR sounding “Shadows and Echoes” changes pace and builds into a much more jazz orientated sound, and includes a very fast jazzy guitar solo. The last track, the odd sounding “A Song for Elsa, Three Days Before Her 25th Birthday”, fast jazz alternating with slow bluesy sax solos.

A good follow-up to If 1, released the same year and includes the same high standard of playing. - Review by mystic fred (Steve Trowbridge)

Track Listings

"Your City Is Falling"
"Sunday Sad"
"Tarmac T. Pirate And The Lonesome Nymphomaniac"
"I Couldn't Write And Tell You"
"Shadows and Echoes"
"Song For Elsa, Three Days Before Her 25th Birthday"

Line-up/Musicians

Dennis Elliott - Drums
J.W. Hodgkinson - Vocals
John Mealing - Keyboards, Vocals
Dick Morrissey - Saxophones, Flute
Dave Quincy - Saxophones
Jim Richardson - Bass
Terry Smith - Guitar
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Releases information

LP ISLAND ILPS9137 (UK) (1970)
LP CAPITOL CASW676 (US) (1970)
CD REPERTOIRE (2006)

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