WHALEFEATHERS - Whalefeathers (2nd Album) - SWE Flawed Gems Remastered - LISTEN - VERY RARE

I admit that for forty years this has been one of my (many) favourite American albums from the early 70s! Perhaps because I got to know it at the very beginning of my adventure with 'unknown' rock... Titled simply "Whalefeathers", containing only six tracks (two of them long), the second album by a psychedelic American formation (with progressive influences - mainly because of the ubiquitous Hammond organ), stylistically harking back to the output of Vanilla Fudge, Procol Harum, Cream and (perhaps) Uriah Heep. The opening "World Of Pain" is for me the best cover of a Cream track ever recorded! The closing, slowly unfolding, over ten-minute "Shadows", meanwhile, is a genuine rock monster! It is an almost classic record, though it has a little too many covers - albeit very good ones... The vinyl in this beautiful cover once came out only in England (now on CD for the first time) on the usually blues label Blue Horizon. This edition sounds better than the old Akarma edition (2 in 1 - released together with the 1970 debut "Declare") - not to mention the German SPM version from 1990. A must!