Sunday, January 29, 2017

SMITHFIELD FREEMAN

Artist: SMITHFIELD FREEMAN
Title: Sick E             
Format: Vinyl LP
Year: 1979
Songs: 9
Label: Seamen Records
Style: Progressive Art Rock

Rare Baltimore, MD based private press obscurity and oddity with its art rock and avant-garde progressive pretensions.  Smithfield Freeman played a large role in the production, arrangement, writing and performing of the music.  He enlisted a large entourage of about 16 musicians to assist in the album.  Operatic at times, jazz and horn flourishes at other times, progressive treatments and then just rock oriented tangents.  It seems to be a concept album of sorts, dealing with a man’s descent into a dark place mentally.  It’s all mixed into this potpourri/Pandora’s box of an album.

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