Greenslade, Dave

Artist: Dave Greenslade
P: 1999
This solo release by Dave Greenslade offers nice tunes with synthesizer and guitar. Some of the tracks remind of the legendary Pentateuch tunes, with a little jazzy element.

Artist: Dave Greenslade
P: 2000
First studio album in over 20 years for progressive rock act featuring Colloseum keyboard player Dave Greenslade, original bassist Tony Reeves and John Young (Asia) on keyboards and vocals. Progrock Style with a little more song character.

Artist: Greenslade
P: 1973 / 1995
GREENSLADE's second album is as remarkable as his debut album with even more mellotron than he could pack into the first release. This truly awesome album blends mellotron and flute passages that will make you drool. Once again the album is drenched in English personal and charm. Without a question "Pilgrims Progress" is one of my personal favourite songs from the 70's prog era. The symphonic passages are lush and yet the songs are aggressive and ever shifting. Songs are played with amazing musicanship and are all quite clever. Overall an outstanding album that you must own.

Artist: Greenslade
P: 1973 / 1992
The musicianship is stellar. So good that you think it had members of Yes playing on it. The drums and bass especially. If you love Chris Squier's bass-playing and/or Bill Bruford's drumming, this album is made for you! There are long, beautiful, instrumental sections that would fit almost perfectly onto "The Yes Album" of "Fish Out Of Water". Extremely tight, muscular and expansive. The way you like symphnic prog.

Artist: Greenslade
P: 1974
The healthy followup to Bedside Manners (the band's decent but rough and underworked sophomore release), Spyglass Guest restores some of the inspiration shown on the debut from '73 with a better realized and organized sound successfully mixing Bach-tinctured quotes and art-pop eccentricities. There is also something distinctly weird about this record, like some misshaped musical review performed by a group of psychiatric patients on a day's leave, adding some hearty flavor and character to an album easily frowned upon by those who would hold it up against the pedigrees of bigger acts. 'Spirit of the Dance' is charming fugue-rock, a tuplet of 3's led by David Greenslade's organ and the light support of Andrew McCulloch's hi-hat, doubled in the next measure by Clavinet and further layered with the ARP & Fender piano. ELP's presence is comfortably felt like that of an old friend but this quartet always seemed more interested in playing, and this jazzier sensibility is heard on 'Little Red Fry-Up', a thoroughly odd bit with flashes of everyone from Steely Dan to Flash. It transitions smoothly to 'Rainbow' with Dave Lawson's childlike taunts over a creepy visit from Mary Poppins, delicacies of 'Siam Seesaw' featuring Andy Roberts' lovely acoustic guitar phrase, and 8-minute 'Joie de Vivre'; a brilliant construct of abnormal modalities and contrametric divisions, a poetic lyric stringing things together. Shades of early Becker & Fagen are again heard on 'Red Light', 'Melancholic Race's confused mix of dance and symphonic, and lackluster 'Theme for an Imaginary Western'. Spyglass is most assuredly stuck in its time and Lawson's squeaky vocals may annoy, but when properly considered and digested - Mr. Greenslade's careful compositional approach, keen attention to detail and the easily missed tightness of this outfit - it is a much better offering than recognized and is packed with brave if quiet musical discoveries that must be looked into to be appreciated. An ensemble that doesn't always go for the throat, and who ask for your engagement while you bear with them.

Artist: Greenslade
P: 1975
Time and Tide is never going to win any awards as a prog classic but it is diverting in patches and the band, on this album, is fully deserving of it's second tier categorisation in the UK league of 'prog importance'. Still, it's the second side here that's most fun with a quintet of pleasant songs, the best of which is Doldrums. The first side is somewhat weaker with two non-descript vocal tracks to open and then two pedestrian instrumentals to follow. The Mellotron and Rhodes-based Tide is the better of the two (Time's choir and harpsichord arrangement smacks of pointless hubris). These are followed by another instrumental, Catalan, which has enough variation and energy to keep you motivated to listen through and flip the record. Not bad, not great, it's an agreeable enough way to pass half an hour, which deoes smack of damnation via faint praise. Greenslade were never top echelon and on this were beginning to slip down another rung.

Artist: Bernard Xolotl, Michael Stearns, Nick Rhodes,...
P: 2001
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Unreleased Tracks celebrating the masters of electronic, ambient and progressive music.