Friendship Time -
Friendship Time
I played this when I left work, it's great! Thanks to Anteater for the hookup. This is very playful and upbeat progressive rock, very skillfully played and often fast. An obvious influence is
Yes, perhaps in the time frame of
The Yes Album and
Fragile, but I find it more playful than those. More like
Gentle Giant minus the vocal style and Medieval vibe. So those are the well-known influences, but, the album REALLY reminds of a couple other obscure prog albums I have,
Yezda Urfa's
Sacred Baboon mostly (who actually shows a bigger
Gentle Giant influence than
Friendship Time does) and also
Mirthrandir's
For You the Old Women. All 3 albums have similar vocals as well, which honestly I'm not too fond of but are not over used on either of them, and the musicianship more than makes up for them. Fun stuff, thanks Anteater.