Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond
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Artist: Captain BeyondEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1997-08-19
Music Label: Fontana Island
Soundtracks:
- Dancing Madly Backwards (On A Sea Of Air)
- Armworth
- Myopic Void
- Mesmerization Eclipse
- Raging River Of Fear
- Thousand Days Of Yesterdays (Intro)
- Frozen Over
- Thousand Days Of Yesterdays (Time Since Come &...)
- I Can't Feel Nothin' (Part 1)
- As The Moon Speaks (To The Waves Of The Sea)
- Astral Lady
- As The Moon Speaks (Return)
- I Can't Feel Nothin' (Part 2)
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Free Music Review: Captain Beyond (1972)
Hit: 5 Stars
This is one of the best debut albums I have ever heard. Really.
For some reviewers this was a slow process of listening to arrive to an inevitable conclusion. For me, it was almost immediate, once I heard the opening drum groove of ''Dancing Madly Backwards (On A Sea Of Air)''. It was just a great drum beat. The album soon opened up, and song after song I just sat there saying, 'this album kicks @ss'. But like those reviewers, I have not stopped playing this album for weeks and weeks. There is always a song from it playing in my head. And one of the best moments on this entire CD is when ''I Can't Feel Nothin' (Part 2)' kicks in. Rod Evans actually makes you feel like something's about to happen.
I was familiar with Captain Beyond in name only, knowing the Deep Purple History pretty well. So it was always a name I associated with DP, but never heard a single song. Another brush with Captain Beyond came through King's X. When I bought Gretchen Goes To Nebraska back in 1989, I did not realise the song lyrics for ''Send A Message'' was actually a brief salute to Captain Beyond's first album. Doug Pinnick (lead vocalist & bassist) was apparently a huge fan of this album, and thought to include 'Dancing Madly Backwards' in the song's lyrics. I only found out last year that this was in reference to Captain Beyond. Slow learner!
Another reviewer mentioned what their other-half said when hearing Captain Beyond for the first time. Well, my wife asked if it was The Cult. She heard similarity in Evans voice to Ian Astbury's.
But I also hear King's X and Soundgarden here, King's X especially in ''Myopic Void''. I swear Jerry Gaskill of King's X listened to Bobby Caldwell. There's touches of Iron Butterfly, Deep Purple and especially Hendrix on this debut album, but it's all how it works together. It's very hard to ''pull'' individual songs from this release. It works best for ''Raging River Of Fear'' and ''Mesmerisation Eclipse''. But when you hear the whole album ,and how each song flows one into the other, to finally reach that great conclusion in ''I Can't Feel Nothin' (Part 2)'', you just never hear 'one song' again. You have to hear the whole album.
A huge pull for this album is Rod Evans and Bobby Caldwell. Though they are listed as the sole songwriters, all of Captan Beyond wrote this mini-epic. It should read Caldwell-Dorman-Evans-Reinhardt, but legal issues prevented that from being so. But it does not change the fact that a big draw that got me to really listen to this album, was what Caldwell & Evans were doing. I was familiar with Evans voice from Deep Purple, but I didn't know he had THIS much range. He's a great backing vocalist as well, one of the best vocals being ''Thousand Days Of Yesterdays (Intro)''. Even though Reinhardt, Caldwell and Dorman are listed as backing vocalists on the album, there's a lot I'm hearing is Evans. Unless these 3 individuals have a remarkable ability to sound exactly like him, and for every inflection he does with his voice, they are perfectly in sync with it. I suspect they did backing vocals on tracks like the end of Dancing Madly Backwards (coming out of Myopic Void) and the finale 'I Can't Feel Nothin' (Part 2)'', but a lot of the intricate, closely knit harmonies sound like one person's particular voice, multi-tracked. Even with the album credits sitting at my side, I still hear Evans being quite possibly the sole vocalist for many of the songs here.
And Caldwell? Well Caldwell is an incredible, incredible drummer. He is doing things on this album that are just spellbinding. His playing all throughout ''Thousand Days Of Yesterdays (Time Since Come And Gone)'' is just a lesson in, well, incredible drumming. I've heard 4 of these songs he had to do ''live'' as the tape rolled. Though I'm not sure which these are, my guess is on the what would be called the Dancing Madly Backwards Suite. If split, like LP, there would be two sections, The DMB Suite, and The Thousand Days Suite. I hear something happening between Armworth and Myopic Void that says this was Caldwell's ''live'' take, but I could be way wrong.
Reinhardt & Dorman are sincerely no slouches either. There are some great harmonised guitar solos on this album, some great slide guitar work, ''spacey'' atmospheric moments, and great Bass/Drums interplay. Plus there's a slight Latin groove happening on some songs that is as catchy as hell. I insist that SUFFICIENTLY BREATHLESS is worth a purchase, even though this is minus Caldwell. There are some great songs on it as well, particularly ''Evil Men'' and ''Everything's A Circle''.
This band really do deserve to have a ''Classic Albums'' done on them. We've seen Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Steely Dan, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Wonder all receive this type of informative video documentary. Well I motion that Captain Beyond's first album get the same treatment. Why not? Sure they had a minor cult following. Sure mismanagement and bad promotion essentially killed them before they started. Sure they have only 3 albums. But you know what? This first album is that good. There is nothing on this album that is unworthy of it. I've listened to this album in the past month more than I listened to Machine Head in 20 years! So not just because I want them to have a Classic Albums done cus I like it. It's because I think they kinda deserve it. It's a shame they weren't a household word, but that can always change.
Definitely, definitely buy Captain Beyond's 1st album. Let it hit you immediately, or let it sink in slowly. It truly doesn't matter. Either way, it's going to hit that bridge section of ''Mesmerisation Eclipse'', and you're going to be singing along ''mesmerisation baby'' just like I am everytime I hear it. Or waiting for ''I Can't Feel Nothin' (part 2) to finally kick in (yeah yeah).
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Japanese reissue of 1972 self-produced album for Capricorn. 13 tracks, including 'Dancing Madly Backwards (On A Sea Of Air)', 'Armworth' and 'Myopic Void'.Hard Rock & Metal Music CDs
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