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UNORTHODOX BEHAVIOUR
BRAND X
1976 , UK - EURO 9.00
Label: VIRGIN/CHARISMA
ALBUM REVIEW
This is the first and probably the most jazz-oriented Brand X album. Goodsall's bewildering fingerwork and spaced-out effects play off Percy Jones' equally agile and bizarre fretless acrobatics for a shameless display of dextrous virtuosity. Phil Collins demonstrates an alacrity and diversity on percussion that was certainly hinted at in his Genesis work, but only to the devoted, studied listener. This is where his full range of chops comes through, with no-holds-barred kit coverage right in the front of the mix, or at other times a delicate, complicated pitter-patter with no compromise of sheer agility for the subtlety. The most likely turn-off here for newcomers to the '70s fusion sound is Robin Lumley's other-worldly electric piano and synths, but he somehow manages to blend them so well to the other sounds that they sneak up out of nowhere, and in no other rock-driven excursion have such noises sounded so at home (http://www.pyoing.net/brandx/)
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