Camel's classic period started with The Snow Goose, an instrumental concept album based on a novella by Paul Gallico. Although there are no lyrics on the album – two songs feature wordless vocals – the music follows the emotional arc of the novella's story, which is about a lonely man named Rhayader who helps nurse a wounded snow goose back to health with the help of a young girl called Fritha he recently befriended…
Sopwith Camel was a rock music band associated with the San Francisco psychedelic rock scene of the late 1960s. Formed in 1966, the Sopwith Camel was the second San Francisco band to be signed by a major record company -- right after Jefferson Airplane and before the Grateful Dead. They might also have been the first San Francisco group to break up, disbanding after only one album and a "wildly commercial" single "Hello, Hello." Sopwith Camel reformed in 1971 and recorded their second album, 1972's on Warner Bros. Records' Reprise label. The band broke up again in 1974. After sitting in the Warner Bros. vaults for 30 years, the Camel's 1972 album, , was issued on CD in 2001. It was called, The Millennium Edition. In 2006, the second CD release of the , was called Remastered 2006.
32 years after their last studio album the band Bröselmaschine drops a new long player entitled "Indian Camel", bearing an impressive stylistic diversity and a captivating groove. Bröselmaschine is one of the most influential and durable bands of the republic. The Duisburgers gave guest performances with Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, T. Rex, Hawkwind, Fairport Convention, Uriah Heep and many others. They have been on tour nearly all around the globe and in founding member Peter Bursch “the nation’s guitar teacher” among their ranks.
The current line-up consists of drummer Manni von Bohr, bassist Detlef Wiederhöft, guitarist Michael Dommers, keyboarder Tom Plötzer, Peter Bursch plays guitar and sitar and Liz Blue sings. As guests Helge Schneider, Nippy Noya (percussion) and Lulo Reinhardt are featured as well…
With close to 30 years of rock history behind him, Andy Latimer choose 2002 to look back on his story so far. Written while he was living in Northern California, many of the album's seven songs (with bonus track, "After All These Years") are connected to Andy's boyhood years in England in the 1950's and '60's. Camel's reputation for never being a band concerned with following musical trends continues here with themes that include the county fair, a love remembered, a mock fox hunt and the 911 tribute "For Today."
The recording has the modern Camel sound with a modest amount of acoustic guitar, the familiar flute, and the more powerful electric guitar style heard on the band's recordings from the '90's onwards. Latimer's gift for memorable melody is here in abundance and there is much stylistic variation…