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It's amazing to think how little time it took the band to reinvent themselves and completely change the musical concept, as Cottonwoodhill was released in 1971 as well as this album, only a few months apart. Here the band seems to have grown up a lot, providing more uplifting and creative music, achieving a nurturing and welcoming terrain of open nature through unusual instruments such as the tbilat and slide whistle. I am compelled to say that I find the flutes played by Joel Vandroogenbroeck and Martin Sacher very pleasing. In fact, for the year of the album's release, I am surprised at how forward-thinking they are!

Certain songs like Radagacuca or Like A Place In The Sun (my favourite on the album) remind me a lot of the early days of CAN.

It's very striking how much progress they've made in so few months. I think as soon as they released the album (or even before they did), they knew the band sounded too electronic and with a lot of missing principles that needed to be moulded. They have gone from a tedious, incomplete and lacking in personality to a more spiritual, pure and mature sound.

Sure, the band is still the same and you can tell it's them, but here they have taken an unexpected leap in quality and the nature of the sound is much more apparent. Great addition to the musical culture of any fan of progressive rock and its derivatives.

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