Aquila

by Aquila

Aquila cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: August 1970
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Community rating: 3.69/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Built around the expansive, three-part suite 'Aquila', this obscure British quintet delivered a deeply ambitious, Hammond organ-dominated progressive rock opus. The arrangements rely heavily on complex time signatures, aggressive guitar-organ interplay, and strong jazz-rock inflections rather than classical pastiche. Though they vanished shortly after this sole release, the record is highly esteemed by progressive rock historians.

Genres

Descriptors: existential, progressive

Tracklist

  1. Change Your Ways
  2. How Many More Times
  3. While You Were Sleeping
  4. We Can Make It If We Try
  5. First Movement: Aquila (Introduction), Flight Of The Golden Bird
  6. Second Movement: Cloud Circle, The Hunter, The Kill
  7. Third Movement: Where Do I Belong, Aquila (Conclusion)

Credits

  • Aquila - primary artist
  • Keith Beslord - artwork by
  • Phil Childs - bass, piano
  • James Smith - drums, percussion
  • George Lee - flute, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone
  • Martin Woodward - organ
  • Ralph Denyer - vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, written-by

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