Camel

   
Artist: Camel

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Rock: Electronic
   Rock: Progressive
   

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Discography:


   
 A Nod And The Wink

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 7


   
 A Nod and a Wink

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 7


   
 Rajaz

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 8


   
 Harbour Of Tears

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 13


   
 Echoes - The Anthology '78-'92 (CD2)

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 15


   
 Echoes - The Anthology '73-'77 (CD1)

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 13


   
 Dust and Dreams

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 16


   
 Stationary Traveller

   Year: 1984   
Tracks: 10


   
 The Single Factor

   Year: 1982   
Tracks: 12


   
 On the Road 1982

   Year: 1982   
Tracks: 14


   
 Nude

   Year: 1981   
Tracks: 15


   
 I Can See Your House From Here

   Year: 1979   
Tracks: 9


   
 Breathless

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 9


   
 A Live Record CD2

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 19


   
 A Live Record CD1

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 11


   
 Rain Dances

   Year: 1977   
Tracks: 10


   
 Moonmadness

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 12


   
 The Snow Goose

   Year: 1975   
Tracks: 16


   
 Music Inspired By The Snow Goose

   Year: 1975   
Tracks: 21


   
 Mirage

   Year: 1974   
Tracks: 5


   
 Camel

   Year: 1973   
Tracks: 7


   
 Pressure Points

   Year:    
Tracks: 10


   
 On The Road

   Year:    
Tracks: 14

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Camel never achieved the mass popularity of buster British progressive rock bands like the Alan Parsons Project, simply they cultivated a dedicated cult following. Over the course of their calling, Camel experienced legion changes, just throughout the years, Andrew Latimer remained the leader of the band.


Formed in 1972 in Surrey, Camel earlier consisted of Latimer (guitar, transverse flute, vocals), Andy Ward (drums), Doug Ferguson (bass), and keyboardist Peter Bardens, previously of Them. By the end of 1973, the grouping signed with MCA and released their eponymous debut. In 1974, the band switched record book labels, signing with Decca's Gama subsidiary company, and released Mirage. In 1975, Camel released their breakthrough record album The Snow Goose, which climbed into the British Top 30. The band's English interview declined with 1976's Moonmadness, only the record album was more successful in America, arrival number 118 -- the highest chart billet the ring e'er attained in the U.S. Following the release of Moonmadness, Ferguson left the band and was replaced by Richard Sinclair (ex-Caravan); at the same time, the mathematical group added saxist Mel Collins. Latimer and Bardens conflicted during the recording of 1977's Rainfall Dances and those tensions would fall to a headland during the making of 1978's Dyspneic. After Breathless was completed, Bardens left hand the band. Before recording their adjacent record album, Camel replaced Bardens with deuce keyboardists -- Kit Watkins (Happy the Man) and Jim Schelhaas (Caravan) -- and replaced Sinclair with Colin Bass.


By the time Camel released their 1979 record album, I Can See Your House From Here, rock & roll had been changed by the emergence of punk stone, which resulted in less press coverage for reform-minded rock, as well as reduced record book gross revenue. Camel suffered from this lurch in popular taste -- I Can See Your House from Here received less attending than any of the band's releases since their debut. Latimer returned to writing concept albums with 1981's Nude person. In 1982, drummer Andy Ward was forced to pass on the band after woe a hard hand injury. Camel's 1982 record album, The Single Factor, was a slicker, more than accessible matter than previous Camel records, merely it failed to chart. Stationary Traveller (1984) was some other concept record album.


After the freeing of the 1984 live album, Pressure Points, Camel entered a long catamenia of hibernation that lasted until the early '90s. In 1985, Decca dropped Camel from its roster. Latimer wasn't able to find a unexampled label because he was entangled in a difficult legal conflict with Camel's former director Geoff Jukes; Camel eventually won the causa in the late '80s. Throughout this period, Camel produced no new music. In 1988, Latimer sold his household in England and touched to California, where he founded the main pronounce Camel Productions. By the time Camel recorded their followup to Stationary Traveller in the early '90s, the band was, for to the highest degree intents and purposes, just Andrew Latimer and a smattering of session musicians. Dust and Dreams (1991) was the number one release on Camel Productions. In 1993, PolyGram released a double-disc Camel retrospective, Echoes. In early 1996, Camel released Harbor of Tears.





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