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Title: What happened to Oregon?
Review: It seems that the great fusion band has given itself to noodling... There are only two listenable, engaging compositions on this album - The Rapids and By The Brook, which are classic Oregon - lyrical, expansive, melodic. The rest of the tracks (I won't call them songs) are little more than experiments in atonality, which exist on every Oregon album, but not in such great numbers. Usually there is more variety - you get three or four lyrical, beautiful group pieces, a couple of equally pretty duets, a piano or guitar solo piece, a jazzier tune, and a couple of noodlers which go nowhere. Well, this album is jam-packed with the latter, unfortunately. I am not against dissonance, you find some of it in many excellent Oregon tunes, but unless you love dissonance for its own sake, there is way too much of it here. Probably the worst Oregon album.
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