exhumes yet another group of recordings from the early '70s that have never officially seen release before: Another story of a band who had the potential, played with all the right people, and aroused label interest ( tried to sign it), but ultimately got lost somewhere down the fuzzy memory hole of the era. Moving its center of operations back and forth between its Colorado home and Washington state, never quite took that last step beyond its origins despite performing throughout the west (including a showcase at L.A.'s ) and Midwest with such top-list acts as and , but certainly suggests that it wasn't due to lack of talent. While there is some of the typical early-'70s excess to be heard on this archival find -- pondering where the band was going for heavy, silly mystical lyrics, a tendency to mistake an interesting riff for a song and length for mood, jamming several minutes past the point of redundancy -- there are also some tremendously imaginative stretches on the album and even entire songs that are worth the time it takes to listen, not often the case with "lost" recordings from completely obscure and unknown entities. The band's sound existed somewhere between (numerous outstanding guitar and organ solos), , , and , best-exemplified on the pair of opening tracks, with its impressive -style horn arrangements, jazzy saxophone solo, and Latin percussive touches, and the edgy an explosion of harmony. Even if rarely managed to shape its ideas into actual songs on the rest of the album, has enough excellent moments to recommend it. ~ Stanton Swihart