Dancing Moments. 1981 Shadow Light
---2/1/11
----9/15/19
The above constituted the original CDRWL entry. Not exactly hyperventilating the glory of its contents. And yet, shortly thereafter, the album became something of a "holy grail" for collectors. I know it had to be a coincidence - that someone important (who we would call an "influencer" today), whoever that someone was - shared the album with others of a like mind, perhaps reminded by our post. We had reported at the time that it was a "$5 record", because that's what the last auction on ebay had received. Next thing you know, prices on ebay were fetching $500 and more! There's no accounting for the collector mindset. I see today that the price has normalized downward, but hardly back to $5.
In any case, on this revisit the music definitely can hold its own - and I found myself enjoying it more than prior. Still nothing extraordinary, but it would make for a nice reissue, especially given the demand.
"Julian", over at Progressive Reviews, has this to say: "...In fact it's very similar, as the amateur fan will remark, to all those other US light fusion (but not fuzak!) albums I've posted before like Bellvista's great The Painter and Chateau Breakers and the fabulous Franklin Street Arterial album (posted as a comment somewhere or another, can't remember where). In terms of sheer complexity and originality it's not quite at the level of Franklin Street, or my other big fave Clareon, in terms of dynamism not approaching Spaces' Border Station, but I love its pleasantness, and as he said, the superb playing." He = CDRWL. There's also a humorous comment about how his wife noticed all these albums sound the same - and perhaps it's even the same album. lol. She's got a point. We'll leave it right there.
Priority: 3
2/1/11 (new entry); 9/15/19
2 comments:
i was the drummer, young and ambitious, and these guys let me play my rear end off. In hindsight, i could have played less here and there! I do like the drum solo I took on the funk jazz tune - The Hopeful. Sadly I was so broke in those days, I joined touring copy bands to make a living afterward.
Thanks for sharing!
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