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Responsible for another extremely rare one-off album on Deram, Room offers progressive rock with strong bluesy overtones and even some excursions into jazzy territory, without ever leaving their rock foundations. A host of instruments, both strings and brass enliven the music. The arrangement of the final track, "Cemetery Junction", with its unexpected foray into late 19th century symphonical, lifts this cut above the rest. This, in fact, refers to the major traffic crossroads in central Bournemouth (where the band were resident at the time).
A Blandford Forum band, they won an NME 'Beat Contest'. Shortly after "Pre-Flight" was released John Hutcheson, who'd been in Ginger Man with drummer Bob Jenkins, joined the band on organ. ~
Marcel Koopman - Taken from The Tapestry of Delights - The Comprehensive Guide to British Music of the Beat, R&B, Psychedelic and Progressive Eras 1963-1976, Vernon Joynson
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