Genre: progressive
Rating: *** (3 stars)
Title: Zoldar & Clark
Company: Dellwood
Catalog: DLD 56013
Year: 1977
Country/State: US
Grade (cover/record): VG+/VG+
Comments: --
Available: 1
GEMM catalog ID: 4624
Price: $200.00
Cost: $108.00
I'm not a fanatical progressive collector so it's kind of a surprise that this rather obscure album's in my collection. That said, I have to admit that 1977's "Zoldar & Clark" has managed to worm its way into my heart.
Unfortunately, good luck finding out anything about this outfit. Scouring the web I found a pair of reviews, but they're both in Japanese and using the online translation capabilities renders the results into mush. I can't even tell you who Zoldar and Clark were ...
So what can I tell
you? Well the album was released by the New York-based Dellwood label
(which was apparently a subsidiary of the tax loss Guinness Records
label). The set was produced by Christopher Hawk. Propelled by a sea of synthesizers,
musically the set's firmly entrenched in the progressive camp (check out the
extended instrumental 'Luner Progressions'), though
tracks such as 'Touch the Sky' and 'The Ghost of Way' are surprisingly
accessible. The group certainly had a knack for crafting catchy
hooks and whoever handled the lead vocals had a nice and quite commercial
voice. In fact with a little bit of editing, songs such as the pretty
ballad 'Now Is the Time', 'Time To Be Alive' and 'Day After Day' would have given bands like
Ambrosia, Kansas, Styx and even Yes a run for their FM radio play. Sure, it isn't the year's most original offering, but give me these guys
over Starcastle any day !!! Man, side two of this album seems to go by
in a flash ...
"Zoldar & Clark" track listing:
(side 1)
1.) Touch the Sky
2.) Now Is the Time
3.) Time To Be Alive
4.) The Ghost of Way
(side
2)
1.) Lunar Progressions
2.) In Time
3.) Day After Day