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Pyramid Love

Pyramid Love

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With the album Pyramid Love, released on Broken Records in 1977, musician/writer/arranger/producer Craig Peyton introduced the Craig Peyton Group … essentially the nucleus of the group that had constituted Band X on the album The Best of Band X the previous year, horn-player Alan Grzyb and bass player Victor Preston were joined by Willie Upshaw coming in on guitar and Chris Meisel on drums and percussion. Craig’s own credits included Elka Strings and Orgasmitron (!), the latter not Wilhelm Reich’s infamous orgasm-inducing machine but a kind of synthesizer (as of course were the Elka Strings). The album saw Craig take a much jazzier turn after the eclectic leftfield experimentalism of Band X … essentially a return to his roots (Craig was originally a jazz vibraphonist and drummer) this is classic mid-70s fusion. The tracks Pyramid Love and Marjorie are firmly in that jazzy blue-eyed soul vein that Band X had mastered with the tracks Home and Afterthought, with Craig’s vocals bringing to mind Donald Fagen. The latter has some fine soloing from Upshaw and Grzyb and sounds like it should’ve been called I Believe In You Girl… Craig Peyton had a penchant for cognitively dissonant titles. Funky Boogie is exactly that, with some superb playing from Grzyb and Craig Peyton, who surely would’ve been a bigger star had he concentrated on his vibes work alone, and topped and tailed with a kind of Charleston pastiche (and a hint of heraldic English pastoralism for good measure!). Plupts 77 is the kind of rock-tinged high-octane fusion that delighted fans of Weather Report and Steps Ahead, with a sudden move into space-funk territory from one of Craig’s synthesizers. Waiting is slow and dreamy with a faster vocal passage, and ends with Grzyb creating textures akin to bagpipes on Mars … another example of Craig Peyton’s penchant for extended writing and ‘movements’ within relatively short pieces.
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Release Date:
2014-11-24
Publication Date:
2014-11-24
Publisher:
Membran Media GmbH / Hamburg
ISBN13:
0730003128424
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