Description

Also known as Contemporary Music Unit, this
sextet from Cambridge, was an interesting
progressive soft rock/folk rock band, who
also incorporated blues rock, jazz-rock and
psychedelic influences and whose main point
of difference was the really nice vocals of
Larraine Odell. Their debut album Open
Spaces is a well-meaning, pleasant prog
album with no obvious weaknesses, but
also with some major highlights like the
opening jazzy “Henry” and the revisited of
Pharaoh Sanders’ “Japan” further to the trully
challenging title track with unusual viola
contributions, glockenspiel, spacey electric
guitar and silent/minimal parts.
A pearl of the Prog scene of the early
Seventies dispersed into oblivion, to be
rediscovered and re-evaluated.