GENTLE GIANT

Dynamic guitars, electric keyboards that actually sound like themselves ( ie not trying to imitate a full orchestra ) grooving blues rock sections, vocal harmonizations, string ensembles. trumpets, woodwinds, tuned percussion which became Gentle Giant staples as their career progressed from this gestation period on this audacious self-titled debut ( sometimes refererred to as A Tall Tale ) all the way up to their 1978 Giant For A Day LP. Not only did Gentle Giant prove that intricate music could be presented in a humourous light they could also rock it out. A blueprint for what was to become more esoteric from album to album culminating with their 1973 In A Glass House LP, which reached new levels of sophistication within the rock medium to the point where their record company deemed it too intimidating to be released to North American markets. Featuring lots of psychedelic beatlesque trippiness, jazziness, classicalness, studio experiments and even a drum solo accompanied by a brief excerpt of Franz List's Liebstram No. 8 Gentle Giant remarkably avoided any allusions of grandiose that other art rock bands seemed to be obsessed with at the time. A fantastical story entitled A Tall Tale is presented on the original gatefold cover which becomes believable after hearing this indespensible masterpiece of modern music from one of the most unusual bands on the threshold of a career that would set them apart from just about every band of the entire art-rock movement of the early '70s.

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