MASTER'S APPRENTICES - A Toast To Panama Red +2 - EU Once Again Expanded Limited Edition - LISTEN - VERY RARE

A new, limited, European edition of the fourth (and last) studio album by the cult band, very popular in the Antipodes. Like its predecessor ("Choice Cuts" from April 1971) - this album, recorded at London's Abbey Road, offered stunning, hard-progressive and quite melodic playing in the vein of Led Zeppelin, Wishbone Ash, very late The Beatles and the Australian Tamam Shud. As on the previous album, the record was dominated by very substantial, shorter forms, although the best part of the album was without a doubt the 11-minute "Games We Play". To this day I find it hard to understand why this band did not become huge outside Australia... Plus two tracks - the live "Future Of Our Nation" from 1971 (in a different version from that on "Nickelodeon") and the studio "Freedom Seekers" from 1972, recorded already as a trio, which was unfortunately the band's swan song. AN ABSOLUTE MUST! (JL)