Culpeper's Orchard - Second Sight (1972/2005 Remastered Expanded Edition)
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Album: Culpeper's Orchard - Second Sight (Remastered Expanded Edition)
Released: 1972 (2005)
Genre: Progressive Rock
Karma Music - KMCD 21025
Their fantastic 2nd album also remastered from the original tapes and coming with bonus material: a sample track from "Dansk arbejde 2" (1972) and 5 live tracks from Sweden (1973) and Roskilde (1973). One of the best Danish progressive bands hitting the streets again! - Malesch Records | New Releases
Second album from 1972 by possibly the best Scandinavian band of the '70's . With Englishman Cy Nicklin on lead vocals and the bands mixture of powerful West Coast flavoured heavy rock and harmony folk this album follows on from the bands stunning debut in a rather more relaxed style. The first album is certainly hard to top but this gets close.. - Freak Emporium
A completely different beast from the usual, this obscure Danish group produced a really underrated album in 1971 that should please those fans of innovative sixties acts. This album is amazingly stylistically diverse. Opening with a banjo/vocal ditty, you really have no idea what is going to happen next as Culpeper heads into a great rock flight like the best of the early Vertigos with Jack Bruce on vocals. Strong point of this group is the lead guitarist who's tone and emotion causes this group to really excel. As the album progresses you hear the Byrds, the Beatles, Crosby Stills and Nash, Procul Harum, Chocolate Watchband, 13th Floor Elevators, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, the list goes on. The way it all comes together is extremely powerful and in my opinion far better than much of those bands music. In truth this is like an amazing tour into the late sixties and early seventies by a simply excellent band - New Gibraltar Encyclopedia Of Progressive Rock
This 1972 album surpasses their debut in every department. The songs are better, the production is superior and the band seem to have more confidence and ability. The music comes across as a mix of Crosby, Stills and Nash and the acoustic rock of Zeppelin. The playing is tight and is another example of how skillful the players were on the Denmark prog scene of the time. This is an excellent disc! - PiccadillyRecords.com : Culpeper's Orchard : Second Sight
This band recorded one of the most beautiful records in Danish rock history. This self-titled album presents excellent electric guitar rock with some folk influences. There are heavier compositions like Mountain Music Part 1 and 2 along with beautiful songs Blue Day's Morning or Gideon's Trap with nice calm piano working. Very good English vocal comes from Englishman Cy Nicklin. The music is often compared to many well known groups which results from unique style and quality. I prefer comparison to Crosby, Stills & Nash but it gives you only hazy idea. This album was re-released on CD in Germany and is one of the most difficult to get on CD (LP is also rare and expensive). However, last year it was unofficially reissued.
Next album Second Sight was recorded with Ken Gudman (from Young Flowers) on drums that replaced Rodger Baker. It didn't reach the high standard of its predecessor, however some tracks are still very good like Julia or Keyboard Waltz. Third record was recorded with Cy Nicklin, Michael Friis from the old line-up plus three members of other Danish progressive group Blast Furnace but it didn't reach big interest. The last album is more into pop-rock direction.
1. Julia 03:16
2. Keyboard Waltz 04:24
3. Classified Ads 04:13
4. Late Night Woman Blues 06:38
5. Mind Pollution/Weather Report 09:34
6. Autumn Of It All 04:07
7. Satisfied Mind 06:06
8. Raving (Single, Bonus Track) 05:10
9. Sailor (Live Bonus Track) 07:13
10. New Day, New Day (Live Bonus Track) 04:26
11. Hey Mister Housekeeper (Live Bonus Track) 06:09
12. Good Days (Live Bonus Track) 04:33
13. Sailor (Live Bonus Track) 10:02
Cy Nicklin - vocals, guitars, mandolin
Neils Henriksen - guitars
Michael Friis - bass, organ, piano, sitar, vocals, acoustic guitar
Ken Goodman - drums, percussion
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