Water Into Wine Band - Harvest Time (Reissue) (1976/2001)

In 1975, the "Water Into Wine Band" acted as a support group at several concerts of Cliff Richard. And in the summer of 1976 the band decided to record another album, as it turned out, the last one ... The band leader Trevor Sandford died of cancer on March 28, 2017.

Musically savvy natives of Cambridge played this album on the fly of the popularity of the folk-rock period. This is their second album. The first (double) was recently re-released in an incomprehensible way on Radioactive Records. Album Harvest Time is a forty-minute selection of chamber pieces with the participation of classical orchestral instruments: conceptual, bucolic, elegant music with English polish and good taste. "The Achilles' heel" of the album can be counted vocal data - so very background and inexpressive they might seem, but I suppose it was the idea of ​​the musicians for a more coherent concept of the album, the carpet of which is also decorated fairly in pastel, discreet tones. In general, palettes of early autumn, harvest time, prevail in emotions evoked by music.
Stylistically, they were close to Stackridge without, however, the venomous humor of the latter. The most sympathetic comparison with the atmosphere of this album can be found in the composition of Stackridge "God Speed ​​the Plow". The title of the album is a 12-minute epic adaptation of folk-rock motifs in academic music, namely an unprecedented sample of chamber folk-rock: string passages, twirled arrangements, a professional approach to material (some musicians later played in chamber orchestras). The guys went far, clearly stepping over the category of "progressive folk-rock" and deserve close attention to fans of many related genres, even to academics.