Mor's Stations from 1973, France

 

Again a complete change in direction.

This wonderful little group, who made only the one release in 1973, is famous (lol), in progressive circles at least, for the involvement of Dan Ar Braz the folk guitarist from Brittany who made the great album Douar Nevez but thereafter descended into ordinary acoustic folk ordinariness at least to my ears.  I'm sure I'll make someone really angry saying this or rather writing it but that drony celtic acoustic guitar just absolutely drives me bonkers, much like the drony ethnic acoustic Eastern/Turkish stuff that stays in the same key for ten minutes.  Just because it's really not that hard to switch to a different chord.

On the other hand this album is superbly crafted singer-songwriter material mostly acoustic but not always. It's similar to the posted Le Chien des Dunes album from long, long ago.  

Consider the track called Suzanne, which just astonishes me with the delicately shifting chord changes resembling waves under a boat shifting under you, as well as the astonishing CSNY-like backup vocal harmonies:

As you all already must realize, in a typical SSW album like this there might be 2-3 songs worth playing twice or more. Here, there are quite a handful, so, better than average for sure.