Found a moving long-form review of The Snow Goose

https://www.treblezine.com/camel-snow-goose-grief-healing/

Edited by David_D - December 27 2021 at 12:54

moshkito wrote: Sacro_Porgo wrote: https://www.treblezine.com/camel-snow-goose-grief-healing/ I just got this album for Christmas and was looking for some articles about it while I was sitting through my first listen. This read keep me occupied quite a while after the album was finished! Quite moving, however wordy, lol. Hi, I have a slightly different take. To me, this album was a left handed JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGUL and it did it by being "classical" in every way possible, and in many ways, a lot less about rock'n'roll or a hit song, or music for the AM and FM radio waves.  To this day, a lot of folks don't like this incredibly beautiful and well done piece of music, because it has no lyrics to explain itself. Sheeeeeep my dip ... neither does Tchaikovsky in any of his Symphonies or Beethoven on his, but rock fans must be so thin in the imagination department that they have to have LYRICS to tell them what the music is about, since they appear to not show the imagination to find out for themselves ... ohh wait ... it's modern days! You don't have time to learn and have to be told! It just shows how little appreciation so many folks have for all kinds of music. If I had to choose one album by CAMEL as my favorite, guess which one it would be? And fudge the healing and all the rest ... not interested! I got a lot of silence and other music to do that if I wish to do so!

I was a late bloomer and discovered The Snow Goose in 1980. I discovered David Bedford in 1974 and was thrilled when I found that he was involved with The Snow Goose . I played Snow Goose for friends and they didn't seem to like it. At the time they were obsessed with Genesis Trick Of The Tail and Rush Hemispheres which I greatly enjoyed, however I didn't actually cross paths with anyone that liked Camel until I entered the big cities on the East coast of the U.S. Eventually I found Camel- A Live Record which was an import album and featured a beautiful live performance of The Snow Goose with David Bedford conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra ( don't quote me, I may have the wrong Orchestra), and that was a beautiful experience. The Snow Goose was melodic and it created atmospheres for me. It was somewhat dreamy at times and I loved the feeling it gave me.