I Spider ~ Remastered [Bonus Tracks]

Product Details

Artist : Web
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 5013929712720
Label : Esoteric
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2008-02-11

ASIN : B00004CPIV

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Concerto For Bedsprings
2. I Spider
3. Love You
4. Ymphasomniac
5. Always I Wait
6. Concerto For Bedsprings
7. Love You

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Editorial Reviews

Album Description

* CLASSIC PROGRESSIVE ROCK ALBUM - NOW 24-BIT REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES

* NEW ESSAY & INTERVIEW WITH DAVE LAWSON

* "I Spider" is truly a lost classic of the Progressive era. Originally released by Polydor Records in 1970, the album was influenced by the experiments of groups such as KING CRIMSON, GENTLE GIANT et al, but was more than a mere clone of these bands. The group evolved from an excellent blues influenced band who released three albums for Deram, who then recruited Keyboard player and writer DAVE LAWSON and recorded their final album. The musicianship on the album was excellent and Keyboard player DAVE LAWSON's compositions were groundbreaking and memorable. The group soon evolved into SAMURAI (whose eponymous album is also released by ESOTERIC this month). This Esoteric reissue is remastered from the original master tapes and features two bonus tracks recorded live in Sweden in 1971, a booklet with previously unseen photographs and an interview with DAVE LAWSON.

Customer Reviews

Bold reissue of four star obscurity... (2008-02-29)

The words 'lost progressive classic' when applied to an album that has not darkened the music room's door in decades are guaranteed to instill foreboding. This original, beautifully played record almost merits the accolade. Released in 1970 to the thudding of jaws hitting table tops, 'I Spider' does owe something in its footings to the likes of Gentle Giant and, in its interplay of sqwawking sax and grand guignol organ, early Van der Graaf Generator. But where it transcends emulation is in the deft seque from prog to modern British jazz. Vibraphone player Lennie Wright and Tom Harris on sax and flute imbued Web with the sensibilities of Neil Ardley and the late and very lost Mike Taylor - jazz's Syd Barrett, echoed in keyboard player and writer Dave Lawson's considerable contributions. Lawson was to move soon to surer prospects in the commercially successful Greenslade. Its sound, by way of Lawson's next band Samurai (whose eponymous and inferior album is also out on Esoteric), can be traced to 'I Spider'. Re-mastered from the original tapes, two bonus tracks recorded live in Sweden in 1971, previously unseen photographs, an interview with Lawson - this reissue package is a bold assertion that music as rounded and dramatic in execution should not be confined to the ether of download, no matter how obscure. This is to be touched and kept.

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