
Road Island
Release Year: 1982
Label: Warner Bros.
Country: USA
Produced by James Guthrie
Musicians:
David Pack: Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards
Joe Puerta: Vocals, Bass
Burlgeigh Drummond: Drums, Percussion, Vocals
Additional Musicians: Christopher North: Organ, Clavinet, David Cutler Lews: Keyboards, Synths, Royce Jones: Background Vocals;
First CD Release: 1999; Label: Warner Music.; Country: Japan;
Second CD Release: 2005; Label: Wounded Bird.; Country: USA;
In the ROAD ISLAND recording, Ambrosia really shows a compositional maturity (music & lyrics) that express an artistic emotional peak, different from their previous efforts. Passing through the Hard Rock format to Progressive tracks, the performed songs are arranged with great vocal textures and amazing hypnotic rhythms like the fantastic "Still Not Satisfied" or the percussive "Kid No More", both tracks sang by the bass player Joe Puerta. While into another songs, we can listen the talented guitarist singer David Pack, performing great tracks like the heavy "For Openers", or the rhythmic Pop single "How Can You Love Me", the Progressive theme "Ice Age" and the romantic ballad "Endings", as the sucesor theme for "How Much I feel" (from the LIFE BEYOND L.A. album). This is a great rock album produced by James Guthrie who produced and engineered The Wall by Pink Floyd. Without a doubt, ROAD ISLAND and ONE EIGHTY, are the best recordings of the band ever, so don't lose this new opportunity to listen this underrated recording. A must for the Ambrosia fans...Good Luck!
I really love this album. Westcoast AOR with a lot of progressive elements and a little bit Hard rockinī style... "For Openers" and "Still Not Satisfied" are amazing tracks, with a lot of quality but i specially like the ballads: I think "Feelinī Alive Again" and " Fool Like Me" are very beatiful songs!!
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