Freedom - Is More Than A Word (1972)

Posted By: hill0
Date: Feb. 8, 2015

Freedom - Is More Than A Word (1972)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks & cue & log) | 259 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 85 MB | Scans | 37:36
Genre: Hard rock / Heavy blues rock / Melodic Metal | Country: England | Label: Akarma | AK 219

The new composition of Freedom came in 1972 and recorded his latest album, "more than a word". Along with the true masterpieces of the disk and there are quite weak (compared with the early works) things …
Freedom's final outing in 1972, Is More Than a Word, is a study in contrasts. It still rocks hard as all get out, รก la Humble Pie, but it also points in an interesting direction in places: toward more textured and acoustic-flavored material that echoes country music, thanks to an electric violin – uncredited – on the opening track "Together." Elsewhere, there is scathing blues-rock in the funky, raucous, rave-up vein on cuts like "Sweaty Feet," the elongated "Brainbox Jam," that goes off the funk nut, and a smoking cover of Don Nix's "Going Down." The shimmering, jazzy pastoralism of "&Direction" provides a glorious, smoky, spiritual vibe with killer guitar solos. The final track, "Ladybird," is full of outlandish arrangements, horns, with a complex melodic frame that makes the band sound Marc Almondish. While it is not an altogether successful outing, it nonetheless offers some great tracks, and a view of the band that would have been interesting, to say the least, had they continued. The Akarma package is typically handsome and durable with fine remastered sound.
Review by Thom Jurek

Tracklist:

01. Together
02. Miss Little Louise
03. Sweaty Feet
04. Brainbox Jam
05. Direction
06. Going Down
07. Dream
08. Ladybird

Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009

EAC extraction logfile from 28. April 2010, 22:28

Freedom / More Than A Word

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Personnel

Roger Saunders (vocals, lead guitar, piano)
Steve Jolly (lead guitar)
Pete Dennis (vocals, bass, acoustic guitars)
Bobby Harrison (vocals, drums, congas)

All thanks goes to the original releaser