Camel - The Snow Goose (1975) (Vinyl)

Year: April 1975, Recorded: Island Studios, Decca Studios, (LP 1975)
Label: Decca Records, Gama Records (UK), SKL-R 5207
Style: Symphonic Rock
Country: Guildford, Surrey, England
Time: 43:39
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 KHz
Size: 255 Mb

The Snow Goose is the third studio album by the band Camel, released in 1975. The critical success of "The White Rider" suite (based on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and appearing on the band's previous 1974 album, Mirage), inspired the group to write more novel-inspired conceptual suites.
The band considered several novels on which to base their next album. For a time they settled on Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse, and some songs were written before the idea was abandoned in favour of Paul Gallico's novella The Snow Goose. The album's name, originally The Snow Goose was altered to Music Inspired by The Snow Goose to accommodate legal protests by Paul Gallico. The album was originally due to feature lyrics based on Gallico's text, but this was abandoned due to the copyright objections. The music was mostly written over a fortnight in a cottage in Devon, England.

Matrix Side A: XZAL-13718.P-2W, Side B: XZAL-13719.P-3W

Camel:
Andrew Latimer – electric, acoustic and slide guitars, flute, vocals
Peter Bardens – organ, electric piano, acoustic piano, pipe organ, Minimoog, ARP Odyssey
Doug Ferguson – bass, duffle coat
Andy Ward – drums, vibes, percussion

Production:
David Bedford – orchestral arrangements
Rhett Davies – recording engineer
Modula – sleeve design

01. A1 The Great Marsh (02:00)
02. A2 Rhayader (03:03)
03. A3 Rhayader Goes To Town (05:21)
04. A4 a. Sanctuary b. Fritha (02:31)
05. A5 The Snow Goose (03:08)
06. A6 a. Friendship b. Migration c. Rhayader Alone (05:43)
07. B1 Flight Of The Snow Goose (02:37)
08. B2 Preparation (03:56)
09. B3 Dunkirk (05:31)
10. B4 a. Epitaph b. Fritha Alone (03:40)
11. B5 La Princesse Perdue (04:53)
12. B6 The Great Marsh (01:11)

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