‘Twice Removed from Yesterday’ Chrysalis CHR 1039 ****
About whom the zealous Peel was
enthusing last week. Unusually, a guitar-dominated three-piece, once the vogue, but now favoured only by people like Jeff Beck and Rory Gallagher (occasionally), which is fronted by former Procol Harum guitarist,
Robin Trower.
Reg Isadore, excellent session drummer whose contribution to the recent Joe Jammer album was immeasurable and Jim Dewar (bass) formerly of Stone the Crows, make up the other two parts.
The combination of Trower’s grasp of the distinctive, muzzy, distorted Hendrix guitar sound characterised by the ‘Third Stone From The Sun’ era and Dewar’s strange compositional influence (characterised by
the feel of some of the tracks on the Crows’ ‘Ode to John Law’ album) makes for an extraordinary, and at times, disquieting album.
‘Daydream’, in particular, is a perfect example of that lush,
languid guitar sound – is it achieved by multi-tracking? There’s also a spiffing version of me old favourite ‘Rock Me Baby’.
The only thing that’s vaguely worrying is that one wonders whether
Hendrix devotees will find this too derivative; I don’t know, if that is so, it’s done so very well, and that’s all that matters isn’t.
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