Wednesday, March 23, 2022

This here (Ekseption) (LP 813)

Ekseption  Ekseption (Vinyl, Phillips Records, 1969) **  

GenreProgressive 

Places I remember: The Little Red Bookshop (Hastings)

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Dharma For One (yes - the Jethro Tull song)

Gear costume: Rhapsody In Blue 

Active compensatory factors: Sometimes you spend 10 dollars on a punt and it works out. Sometimes you buy a prog album by Ekseption and it doesn't quite.

Things it had going for it apart from the price: 1969; the lineup includes a horn section; it is in mint condition.

Things it didn't have going for it: the Phillips record label; the cover.

Ekseption were a prog outfit from Holland doing what Nice did, but unfortunately there was no Keith Emerson in Ekseption. So, it's all a bit crazy but not inspired crazy if you get my drift.

On balance, I'd probably keep my 10 dollars for something else but it's a relic from 1969 so there is that.

Where do they all belong? Definitely prog. Won't be tracking down the rest of the Ekseption catalogue though.

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