From Home To Home＜Colored Vinyl/限定盤＞

Peter Daltrey(vo/p/mellotron/harpsichord/organ)を中心に結成された英国産名Psychedelic RockバンドKALEIDOSCOPEから改名/発展した名バンド、英Vertigoから発表された'70年唯一作が欧Future SHockからクリアー・カラー・ヴィニール仕様/180g重量盤限定アナログで'21年復刻再発!内容を象徴するKeefによる印象的なジャケットも素晴らしい、牧歌調の親しみ易いメロディーと独特の哀愁を込めた楽曲、冒頭の'Aries'から最後の'Drummer Boy Of Shiloh'まで、各種keyを駆使した典雅で古楽調の気品溢れるサウンドも素晴らしい、英国独特の感性を伝える逸品です!!ボーナスとしてB面に、同年日Odeonから発表されたMovie"EYEWITNESS(『小さな目撃者』)"サントラSingle収録曲'Eye Witness'/英Vertigoから発表されたAlbum未収Single曲'Bordeaux Rose''Just Another Day''I Am All The Animals''Songs For You'と英Prismから発表された'76年Singleに収録されたAlbum未収曲'Baby Stay For Tonight'およびI LUV WRIGHTの変名で英Philipsから発表した'70年Single収録曲'Let The World Wash In''Medieval Masquerade'を追加。

From Home to Home is quite similar to the albums this group had put out in the late '60s as the Kaleidoscope (the British Kaleidoscope, not to be confused with the American band of the same name). In fact, it's similar enough to the Kaleidoscope records to make one wonder why they bothered to change their name. Perhaps there is more polish and sophistication in the production, and a slightly heavier rock sound. But the focus is still gentle, story-like songs with debts to both late-'60s Pink Floyd and late-'60s Beatles, though the songs are not nearly as memorable as the work by those bands, and there is not nearly as much balance between chipper and somber material as the Beatles and Pink Floyd mustered. (Fairfield Parlour are heavily tilted toward the cheery tunes.) Tasteful early synthesizer is heard from time to time, and the debts to 1969 Beatles are heard in the Leslie amplification effects, though there are acoustic folk-psych passages with flute, too. The album has been reissued as half of the double-CD compilation The Fairfield Parlour Years, in conjunction with Fairfield Parlour's other 1970s album, the concept album White Faced Lady, which was not released until the 1990s. The disc on that set that contains From Home to Home adds bonus tracks from non-LP releases, along with the single they did under the name I Luv Wight, the previously unreleased movie theme "Eyewitness," and a far more recent re-recording of one song from From Home to Home, "Aries." ~ Richie Unterberger