Dreamware (Passport) (LP 3483)

Passport  Garden of Eden (Vinyl, Atlantic Records, 1979) **  

Genre: NZ Music, pop 

Places I remember: Chaldon Books and Records (Caterham on the hill)

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Snake

Gear costume: Dreamware

They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5

Active compensatory factors: I somehow missed this one while doing the earlier P's.

It's my only Passport album on vinyl (all the CDs were bought while living in the Middle East), and it's one of their weaker efforts. The eighties were just around the corner and there is a whiff of them on parts of this album, especially with the keyboards.

The vocals, yes - vocals, on this concept album are generally lacklustre; on Snake they appear to be inspired by A Love Supreme, but it's more of a soft rock version of that classic, rather than Coltrane's spiritual searching/experimentally audacious quality. Aside from that it's soft rock prog rock fusion from Klaus Doldinger and his crew.

Best thing about the album is the front cover art (back cover has a cringey band photo).

Where do they all belong? That's it for Passport. I'm not pursuing anything post 1979.