Sunday 29 July 2018

Shuttah - The Image Maker vol. 1 & 2 (1971)


The one and only album from this English band.

Shuttah is a band where noone seems to know the names of the contributors and how many members the band had at all. Their music and this album is still highly rated, though.
The lineup seems to be, our sounds like, saxophone, trumpet, bass, drums, guitars, organs, piano and vocals.

The music on this one hour long album is a mix of beat music, English psych rock and German krautrock. There is also a lot of west coast psych and space rock influences here too.

This one hour long album gives us some weird music and some beat like psych rock too. References are at times Gong and other Canterbury prog bands like Caravan.

But Shuttah and this album has it's own style and universe.

The music is free flowing and full of mischief. It is also very playful.

There is not much greatness here. The band had problems writing some really great songs. And there are also some substandard stuff here. Nevertheless, this is a decent album well worth checking out.

2 points




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