Here's a late era CDRWL entry that I heard again last night. My original notes stated:
No doubt The Painter is "of the era", with its sunny disposition, and proto smooth jazz sounds. The opener 'Once Upon a Fantasy' displays there might be more to this than a tropical vacation, as guitarist Peter Calo turns up the fuzz a bit. From there it's a bit of cruise ship lounging, and perhaps even a little acoustic light world music via the Steve Tibbetts channel. All of that is well and good, but do we get that payoff track? Oh yes, we DO! And it's the finale title track that delivers it - a blistering 9 minute psychedelic guitar fronted fusion number that will have you digging through collection looking for your Love Devotion Surrender album. Well, no Larry Young on organ of course, and period synthesizers are in full force instead. But for 1982, that ain't bad right?
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Yep - I'll stand by that. I've been strangely in the mood for early 80s fusion of late. So this one scratches that itch in a big way and resulted in a +1 listen.
This was an AC discovery, and his notes to me were: "Boston area fusion band's only LP, and it's a good one. Intelligent compositions with plenty of nice keyboard and guitar work. The electric guitar soloing in particular gives a nicely contrasting aggressive edge to the mostly melodic proceedings, going into full-on psychedelic mode on the lengthy final track. Recommended to genre fans. Guitarist Peter Calo released a solo album on the same label the following year, but much of it is more pop/vocal oriented."
Ownership: LP: 1982 En Route. Single sleeve. Nice subdued cover art. Bought this online in 2015 after receiving the AC's download. Wanted to get it before the price went up. If anything, it's gone down since! Not one you're likely to find in the wilds, but a tenner will score you a minty copy online (as of today). The label you see is my copy as we added both to Discogs.
5/23/15 (CDRWL)
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