Thursday, August 22, 2024

Bounty, USA-California


Bounty. 1977 H-Arts

Bounty's sole work is a strong all instrumental progressive rock album from southern California, with grand piano and mid 70s synthesizers as the primary leads. Some accent guitar along with a crack rhythm section round out the instrumentation. Reminds me most of the Another Roadside Attraction album from Canada, with a touch of Graced Lightning and Italy's Festa Mobile. And naturally ELP should be called out as well. According to the backside of the LP, side one's sole track is from 1977 and is only 11 minutes whereas side 2 is a more traditional 20 minutes and the two compositions date back to 1975 (but recorded in '77).

---9/7/22

In hearing the album again last night for the first time since, that pretty much sums it up and my rating remains the same. It's borderline jazz fusion, but really belongs to the category of symphonic fusion - which I consider progressive rock. The piano and synthesizer are the highlights, and the rare guitar display adds points.

Priority: 2

11/24/10; 9/7/22

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