Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs (Exp)
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Artist: Robin TrowerEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2007-10-02
Music Label: Chrysalis / Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Day of the Eagle
- Bridge of Sighs
- In This Place
- The Fool and Me
- Too Rolling Stoned
- About to Begin
- Lady Love
- Little Bit of Sympathy
- Bridge of Sighs [BBC Sessions][*]
- In This Place [BBC Sessions][*]
- Alethea [BBC Sessions][*]
- Little Bit of Sympathy [BBC Sessions][*]
- Fine Day [BBC Sessions][*]
- Confessin' Midnight [BBC Sessions][*]
- It's Only Money [BBC Sessions][*]
- Gonna Be More Suspicious [BBC Sessions][*]
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Free Music Review: 70's Rock Masterpieces
Hit: 5 Stars
This is of course Trower's most famous album and its strange to try and figure out why. His first 3 records all sound alike but for some reason I guess most think this album had his best set of songs. And that very well might be. Its a masterpiece for sure but its also another case where an artist or bands other albums which offer more variations on their masterpiece are overshadowed. But onto the album. Released inn 1972..it was his biggest hit reaching #7 in America and featured heavily in all the rock trades at the time. The album opens with the epic Day Of The Eagle, a storming rocker who's blitzing intro segment lets you know, something powerful has arrived.
This takes us into another of the bands trademark dream like slow burn songs..the title track, its an amazing song that features a blowing wind sound that segueways into the next song In This Place. These 2 songs take you into another place, another dimension. Trower's wah-wah guitar work overdubbed ontop of a clean strum/pick riff with sparce drum fills and the concentrated vocals of James Dewar really make this an absolute classic. It makes you wanna just sit and close your eyes and be taken away from reality. The band creates that magic feel over several of the albums cuts including the rocking Fool And Me, featuring some great guitar rock in the solo section. You can tell a classic album when almost everyone of its tracks are essentials and appear on the compilations and reissues. Too Rolling Stoned, the 2nd half of the album, almost equals Day of the Eagle in its blistering rocker nature. A track that just melts your mind with how good it is and also, has a nice funk feel to it in the bass and wah wah guitar playing. About To Begin is another nice dip in the action, once again showcasing Trower's tasteful guitar prowess. Lady Love boosts us back into that hopping rocker mode that the band can evoke so nicely. What shoulda been another radio hit it has all the elements (complete with cowbell intro). And the album is brought full circle with another of Trower's standards, Little Bit Of Sympathy, a grooving heavy rocker that is what great inspired hard rock is all about.
One of the best things about the album besides the songs, was the crisp production. When played loud, few bands sound as good as this stuff does. The duties were handled by fellow Procol Harum member Matthew Fisher. This is Trower's best album for sure and not only that its a classic of 70's guitar virtuoso influences and hard rock in general. Anyone looking to revisit any great but more rare bands of the time. This album should be in the top 10 easily.
Bridge of Sighs (Exp) Poster
Guitarist Robin Trower's watershed sophomore solo disc remains his most stunning, representative, and consistent collection of tunes. This 24-bit digitally remastered 25th anniversary reissue, which tacks on five live tracks adding nearly 25 minutes to the original playing time, actually improves upon the original. Mixing obvious Hendrix influences with blues and psychedelia, then adding the immensely soulful vocals of James Dewer, Robin Trower pushed the often limited boundaries of the power trio concept into refreshing new waters. The concept gels best in the first track, "Day of the Eagle," where the opening riff rocking morphs into the dreamy washes of gooey guitar chords that characterize the album's distinctive title track that follows.Robin Trower left Procol Harum to pursue his own musical vision and, while Spinal Tap has made the efforts of those who pursued such "heaviness" seem positively ludicrous, one listen to side one of Bridge of Sighs should prove once and for all that such pursuits are not always in vain. Trower leads a power trio of unrestrained heaviness, anchored by his sublimely bloated lead guitar and bassist James Dewar's throaty vocals. The wind sounds that segue the title track into "In This Place" may be a bit too much mystical gobbledygook but Matthew Fisher's subtle production throughout makes this one of the finest introductions into early-'70s wasted drug rock. --Rob O'Connor
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