~  CAMEL  ~ 

 

Angleterre  -  rock progressif  -  **** 

 


Groupe phare de l'école Canterbury, courant musical caractérisé par
un soft jazz-rock progressif délicat, raffiné, nuancé,
aux superbes mélodies romantiques, richesse des arrangements,
finesse des constructions, mariage de thèmes énergiques et délicat à la fois,
une musique dans la lignée de  
Gentle Giant , E L P , Genesis , Yes ,
avec une guitare style  
David Gilmour , des oeuvres ambitieuses aux feeling
très progressif, aux mélodies ciselées, aux sonorités aériennes et légères,
avec tantôt des pointes classiques, celtiques, jazz, ..
Un des plus célèbres groupes des 70's !
 
 

 

MUSICIENS


  -  
Andrew  LATIMER  - guitares , chant , flûte , claviers , percu - ( tous albums, DVD )
  -  
Peter  BARDENS  - claviers , chant - ( mirage à nude, DVD )
  -  
Andy  WARD  - batterie , percussions - ( mirage à nude )
  -  
Doug  FERGUSON  - basse - chant - ( mirage à rain dances )
  -  
Colin  BASS - basse ,chant ,claviers ,guitare - ( dust and dreams à a nod and a.., DVD )
  -
 Don  HARRISS  - claviers - ( dust and dreams )
  -  
Paul  BURGESS  - batterie - ( stationary traveller à never let go, DVD )
  -  
Richard  SINCLAIR  -  basse, chant - ( breathless )
  -  
Mel  COLLINS  - flûte , saxophone - ( breathless, nude )
  -  
Duncan  MACKAY  - claviers - ( nude )
  -  
Chris  GREEN  - violoncelle - ( nude )
  -  
Mickey  SIMMONDS  - claviers - ( never let go , harbour of tears )
  -  
David  PATON  - basse , chant - ( stationary traveller, harbour of tears )
  -  
John  XEPOLEAS  - batterie - ( harbour of tears )
  -  
Christopher  BOCK  - batterie - ( dust and dreams )
  -  
Ton  SCHERPENZEEL  - claviers - ( stationary traveller, dust & dreams , rajaz, DVD )
  -  
Foss  PATTERSON  - claviers , chant - ( coming of age )
  -  
Dave STEWART  - batterie , percussions - ( coming of age , rajaz )
  -  
Barry  PHILLIPS  - violoncelle - ( harbour of tears , rajaz )
  -  
Guy  LEBLANC  -  claviers, choeurs - ( a nod and a wink, Paris collection )
  -  
Denis  CLEMENT  -  batterie - ( a nod and a wink, Paris collection )
  -  
Terry  CARLETON  -  batterie - ( 2, 6 )  percussions, choeurs - ( a nod and a wink )
  -  
JR  JOHNSTON  -  choeurs - ( a nod and a wink )
  -  
Chris  RAINBOW  -  claviers, chant - ( stationary traveller, pressure points, DVD )
  -  
Mel  COLLINS  -  saxophone - ( stationary traveller, pressure points, DVD )
 

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Mirage    ( 1974 )

  titres : free fall, supertwister,
              nimrodel the procession the white rider,               earthrise, lady fantasy : encounter,
              smiles for you lady fantasy.

The snow goose     ( 1975 )

oeuvre instrumentale ambitieuse, fluidité, transparence,
limpidité, fusion parfaite entre la guitare cristalline de
Andy Latimer et les synthétiseurs étincelants dePeter Bardens

  titres : the great marsh, rhayader,
              rhayader goes to town, sanctuary,
              fritha, the snow goose, friendship,               migration, rhayader alone,
              flight of the snow goose, preparation,
              dunkirk, epitaph, fritha alone,
              la princesse perdue, the great marsh.

Moonmadness    ( 1976 )

 le duo de compositeurs  Latimer / Bardens
fait merveille, virtuosité instrumentale,
sonorités tourbillonnantes de synthétiseurs,
rythme implacable, arpèges de guitares,
superbes interventions de flûte.

  titres : aristillus, song within a song,
              chord change, spirit of the water,
              another night, air born, lunar sea.

Rain dances     ( 1977 )

 Richard Sinclair ( Caravan ), rejoint Camel,
son influence donne une orientation plus
teintée de jazz, mélodies ciselées,
sonorités aériennes et légères.

  titres : first light, metrognome, tell me,
              highways of the sun, unevensong,
              one of these days I'll get an early night,
              elke, skylines, rain dances,
              highways of the sun.

Breathless     ( 1978 )

  titres : breathless, echoes, wing and prayer,
              down on the farm, starlight ride,
              summer lightening, you make me smile,
              the sleeper, rainbow's end.

Nude     ( 1981 )

  titres : city life, nude, drafted, docks, beached,               landscapes, changing places,
              pomp and circumstance,
              please come home, reflections,
              captured, the home coming, lies,
              the last farewell.

Stationary traveller   ( 1984 )

  titres : pressure points (instrumental), refugee,
              vopos, cloak and dagger man,
              stationary traveller (instrumental),
              west Berlin, fingertips, missing (instr.),
              after words (instr.), long goodbyes.

Pressure points   ( 1984 )

  titres : pressure points, drafted, captured, lies,               sasquatch, west Berlin, fingertips, wait,
              rhayader, rhayader goes to town.

Dust and dreams   ( 1991 )

un progressif raffiné, mélodique, symphonique,
avec une pointe de musique classique et celtique

  titres : dust bowl, go west, dusted out,
              mother  road, needles, rose of sharon,
              milk n' honey, end of the line,
              storm clouds, cotton camp,
              broken banks, sheet rain, whispers,
              little rivers and little rose, hopeless anger,               whispers in the rain.

Camel on the road 1972 ( 1992 )

  titres : lady fantasy, six ate, white rider,
              god of light revisited.

Never let go     ( 1993 )

live tournée 92, parfait à tous points de vue.

 cd 1 : never let go, earthrise, rhayader, rhayader goes to town,
    spirit of the water, unevensong, echoes, ice, city life, drafted.
 
cd 2 : dust bowl, go west, dusted out, mother road, needles,
    rose of sharon, milk n' honey, end of the line, storm clouds,
    cotton camp, broken banks, sheet rain, whispers,
    little rivers and little rose, hopeless anger,
    whispers in the rain, sasquatch, lady fantasy.

Harbour of tears    ( 1996 )

merveilleux concept album, symphonique, mélancolique, émouvant, celtique. Superbe !

  titres : irsh air, irsh air ( instrumental ),
              harbour of tears, còbh,
              send home the slates, under the moon,
              watching the bobbins, generations,
              eyes of ireland, running from paradise,
              end of the day, coming of age,
              the hour candle.

On the road 1981     ( 1997 )

  titres : never let go, song within a song,
              lunar sea, city life, nude, drafted, docks,
              beached, landscapes, changing places,
              reflections, captured, the last farewell.

Coming of age     ( 1997 )

un live indispensable !!!

 cd 1 : lunar sea, hymn to her, rhayader, rhayader goes to town,
           preparation, dunkirk, drafted, docks, beached,
           spirit of the water, ice, sasquatch.
 
cd 2 : milk'n honey, mother road, needles,
           rose of sharon, irish air, irish air (reprise),
           harbour of tears, còbh, send home the slates,
           under the moon, watching the bobbins,
           eyes of ireland, running from paradise,
           end of the day,coming of age, the hour candle.

Rajaz      ( 1999 )

émotions, mélancolie, envolées de guitares
sublimes, claviers enveloppants et soyeux,
du grand Art !!!

  titres : three wishes, lost and found,
              the final encore, rajaz, shout,
              straight to my heart, sahara, lawrence.

Live - coming of age

~  D V D  ~

( 1998 )

  titres : lunar sea, hymn to her, rhayader,
              rhayader goes to town, drafted, docks, beached,
              spirit of the water, ice, sasquatch, fan interviews,
              mother road, needles, rose of sharon, irish air,
              harbour of tears, cobh, send home the slates,
              under the moon, watching the bobbins,
              eyes of ireland, running from paradise,
              end of the day, coming of age, the hour candle,
              closing credits/irish air.

73 - 75  gods of light   ( 2000 )

  titres : god of light revisited, white rider,
              lady fantasy,, arubaluba,
              excerpts from the snow goose.

 The Paris collection   ( 2001 )

  titres : Ice, chord change, fingertips,
              slow yourself down, sahara, mother road,
              little rivers and little rose,
              hopeless anger, lady fantasy.
 
bonus : slow yourself down.

A nod and a wink    ( 2002 )

  titres : a nod and a wink, simple pleasures,
              a boy's life, fox hill, the miller's tale,
              squigely fair, for today.

Curriculum vitae

~  D V D  ~

( 2003 )

  titres : arubaluba, never let go, the snow goose,               friendship, rhayader goes to town,
              first light, metrognome, city life, lies,
              stationary traveller, hopeless anger,
              the hour candle, drafted, fox Hill.

Pressure points

live in concert 1984

~  D V D  ~

( 2003 )

  titres : in the arms of waltzing frauleins,
              pressure points, refugee, vopo's,
              stationary traveller, west berlin,
              fingertips, sasquatch, wait,
              cloak and dagger man, rhayader,
              rhayader goes to town, lady fantasy,
              in the arms of waltzing frauleins.

Rainbow's End - Camel
Anthology 1973-1985  ( 2010 )

 cd 1 : slow yourself down, never let go, curiosity,
           mystic queen, nimrodel / procession / white rider,
           freefall, earthrise, lady fantasy [original mix],
           ligging at Louis [BBC radio one "In Concert"],
           arubaluba [BBC radio one "In Concert"],
           supertwister [live at the Marquee Club].
 
cd 2 : homage to the god of light [live], great marsh,
           rhayader, rhayader goes to town,
           preparation [live at the Royal Albert Hall],
           dunkirk [live at the Royal Albert Hall], aristillus,
           song within a song, air born, spirit of the water,
           chord change [live at the Hammersmith Odeon],
           another night [live at the Hammersmith Odeon],
           first light, elke.

 cd 3 : tell me, metrognome [live at the Colston Hall], unevensong,
           lunar sea [live at the Colston Hall], rain dances [live at the Colston Hall], echoes,
           starlight ride, breathless, rainbow's end [single version], survival, hymn to her, Ice,
           city life, nude, drafted.
 
cd 4 : docks [BBC radio one In concert], beached [BBC radio one "In concert"],
           captured [BBC radio one In concert], summer Lightning [BBC radio one In concert],
           sasquatch, heroes, selva, heart's desire, end peace, In the arms of the waltzing
           frauleins, cloak & dagger man, stationary traveller, long goodbyes,
           pressure points [live at the Hammersmith Odeon],
           west Berlin [live at the Hammersmith Odeon],
           fingertips [live at the Hammersmith Odeon],
           rhayader [live at the Hammersmith Odeon],
           rhayader goes to town [live at the Hammersmith Odeon].

 

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harbour of joy      ( 1996 ) 

 cd 1 : never let go (Evolution), air born (Glass Hammer),
another night (Cast), the sleeper (Phil Beane),
first light/rain dances/the white rider (Fonya),
down on the farm (Strange New Toys),
song within a song (Algebra), drafted (Aton's),
elke (Zauber), tell me (Casino Des Images),
eye of the storm (Fonya), friendship/little rivers and little rose/migration/hopeless anger (New Credo).
 
cd 2 : pressure points (Musia), first light (Prowlers),
Ice (Notturno Concertante), nimrodel (Finisterre),
long Goodbyes (Nostalgia), rain dances (Louie Mastro),
rhayader (Raindances), lady fantasy (Galahad),
fritha alone (Louie Mastro).

 

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