~  FAMILY   ~

 

Angleterre  -  folk-rock progressif  -  ***

 


La musique de  
Family  est un mélange de pop progressive teintée d'influences folk, blues, progressives par l'utilisation de l'orgue,
du vibraphone, du saxophone, et aussi jazzy ou psychédéliques.
 Des mélodies fortes, très orchestrées, des ballades précieuses,
avec le chant du chanteur à la voix si particulière  
Roger Chapman ,
on retrouve aussi  
Charlie Whitney , le saxophoniste-flûtiste  Jim King ,
le bassiste-violoniste  
Ric Grech  et dès 1971
le fameux bassiste / chanteur  
John Wetton .
 

 

MUSICIENS


   -  Roger  CHAPMAN  -  chant, guitare, percussions -
   -  
John ‘Charlie’ WHITNEY  -  guitare, banjo, basse,... chant -
   -  
Jim  KING  -  saxophone, flûte - ( 68, 69 )
   -  
Rick  GRECH  -  basse - ( 68, 69 )
   -  
Robert  TOWNSEND  -  batterie & percussions, harpe -
  +   -  
The  Heavenly Strings  -  cordes - ( 69 )
       -  
Tony  COX  -  arrangements - ( 69 )
   -  
John  WEIDER  -  guitare, violon, basse, percussions,... - ( 70,71 )
   -  
John ‘Poli’ PALMER  -  vibraphone, piano, flûte, percus. - ( 70, 71, 72)
   -  
Jim  KING  -  saxophone (11&12) - ( 70 )
   -  
John WETTON  -  guitars, chant, claviers - ( 71, 72)
  +   -  
The  Ladbroke  Horns  -  cuivres - ( 71 )
  +   -  
Del  NEWMAN  -  arrangements cordes - ( 72 )

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music in a doll's house    ( 1968 )

 titres : the chase, mellowing grey, never like this,
             me my friend, variation on a theme of hey
             Mr. policeman, winter, old songs new songs,
             variation on a theme of the breeze,
             hey Mr. policeman, see through windows,
             variation on a theme of me and my friend,
             peace of mind, voyage, the breeze, 3xtime.

family entertainment     ( 1969 )

 titres : the weaver’s answer, observations from a hill,
             hung up down, summer ‘67, how-hi-the-li,
             second generation woman, from past archives,
             dim, processions, face in the crowd, emotions.

a song for me      ( 1970 )

 titres : drowned in wine, some poor soul,
             love is a sleeper, stop for the traffic-through              the heart of me, wheels,
             songs for sinking lovers, hey-let it rock,
             the cat and the rat, 93’s Ok J, a song for me.
 
bonus : no mule’s fool, good friend of mine.

anyway         ( 1970 )

 titres : good news bad news, willow tree,
             holding the compass, strange band,
             part of the load, anyway, normans,
             lives and ladies.
 
bonus : today, song for lots, today.

fearless    ( 1971 )

 titres : between blue and me, sat D-Y barfly,
             larf and sing, spanish tide, save some for thee,
             take your partners, children, crinkley grin,
             blind, burning bridges.
 
bonus : In my own time, seasons.

bandstand    ( 1972 )

 titres : burlesque, bolero babe, coronation,
             dark eyes, broken nose, my friend the sun,
             glove, ready to go, top of the hill.
 
bonus : the rockin R’S.

 

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