Sufficiently Breathless

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Japanese reissue of their 1973 album for Capricorn. Eight tracks, including the title track, 'Bright Blue Tango' and 'Everything's A Circle'.
Album Description

Customer Response

Awesome
Great Band - Get their albums!!! this is a good one to start with because then, as some people have pointed out, you can avoid comparing it to their first.

excellent
There is absolutely nothing wrong with this second Captain Beyond album except it is not the first, Captain Beyond

That was one of the most inventive in rock, creating new ways to align bass and guitar, and the drumming was simply amazing. So were Rod Evan's growling vocals.

Sufficiently Breathless was after Evans left. The bi-product is a solid hard rock album that uses folk, great playing, and all the other ingredients used in great hard rock albums in the early 1970s--back when they really knew how to make albums.

On its own, this is above average and highly enjoyable, but it is not a revelation as was the first. Still, if you like early 70s solid rock, you can't do a lot better.

Amazing work of art
Like a good book it hooks you on the first page or song in this case.
Sit back and let Sufficiently Breathless take you away. The Guitar work massages your mind. Bright Blue Tango is a nice rock a little stroll. Step up the Tempo a bit with Drifting in Space, good piano work. Just have a beer and sit back for the ride. This might remind you of a Led Zepplin song. Evil Men Rocks, Guitar Weaves in and around Rod Evans vocals, Drums are there. Starglow Energy Brings you back to reality then just simply blows you away. This Song alone is worth the price of the CD. Voyages Past Travellers a short song that has a lot going on nice back ground music at times. Then has some weird lyrics at the end. If your drinking your beers it might mess you up. The album wraps it up with Every things a circle. It is perhaps the weakest part of the record. But Still musically intact just not a memorable song.

Sufficiently GOOD!!
Captain Beyonds Sufficiently Breathless is a microcosm of the early 70's prog rock explosion. The music cannot be compared to their counterparts Yes, it is much more rock orientated. More like Santana meets Pink Floyd. A very sentimental album that will stay with you. The slowed down "Voyages Of Past Traveller's" has a subliminal message if sped up on a turntable, doesn't work with CD though. Too bad this group didn't stick it out.

Okay
I picked this album up years ago and listened to it maybe once, and shelved it. Many years later when I burned it to CD, it was a little more worn than I would have thought, so I must have played it more than once. However, after all that time, the only cut I could remember was Sufficiently Breathless.

As I've had a chance to listen to it several times, I can say that I now realize why I didn't like it that well. It has bongos through most of the songs and also a Latin jazz feel to it, which I don't really like.

With two former members of Iron Butterfly, I was expecting this music to rock, but alas, it seems to be more in that Latin jazz vein that I alluded to earlier. However, when they play it straight, as in Starglow Energy, the band shows more of a pure rock energy that I think is missing from the rest of the songs.

Though the album cover art is excellent, it doesn't really fit the music, in my eyes. However, it is not bad, but there is just nothing special about the music. If they'd done more pure rock as in Starglow Energy, I might have liked them a lot better. Maybe their first album did, but I haven't heard it yet.

Though not for me, for fans of something out of the ordinary, I'd recommend it.

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