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Sufficiently Breathless | 
| Artist: Captain Beyond
Label: Fontana Island
Category: Music
List Price: $9.98
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Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 23893
Format: Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 558380
UPC: 731455838022
EAN: 0731455838022
ASIN: B000006ONT
Release Date: May 19, 1998
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Condition: The original Capricorn Records release with a 1973 copyright. The audio CD has been tested and played fine despite some light surface marks. NO cut-out marks. We ship most standard speed orders via USPS first class mail within 24 hours!
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| • | Sufficiently Breathless | | • | Bright, Blue Tango | | • | Drifting in Space | | • | Evil Men | | • | Starglow Energy | | • | Distant Sun | | • | Voyages of Past Travelers | | • | Everything's a Circle |
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Album Description
Japanese reissue of their 1973 album for Capricorn. Eight tracks, including the title track, 'Bright Blue Tango' and 'Everything's A Circle'.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 27 more reviews...
A Different Approach... July 30, 2008
C. Potocki (Highland, Indiana)
Captain Beyond's 2nd album does take a different approach from their powerful debut, that much can be ascertained. But that doesn't mean the material isn't good; it simply isn't quite as good as the 1st album. There is a notable lack of firepower on this release; Rhino's guitar parts in particular are mixed more into the background this time whereas his playing was louder & more in-your-face on the 1st album.
Besides the absence of drummer Bobby Caldwell, who was replaced by both a drummer & a percussionist to play the Latin-inspired rhythms that Caldwell performed alone, the song structure on "Sufficiently Breathless" is more basic & straightforward rather than the offbeat time signatures & jagged rhythms that defined the 1st album.
Another item of note (& apparently, I'm the only reviewer who noticed this), the majority of the keyboard work on this album was done by Reese Wynans, who later played with Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, from their 1985 album "Soul To Soul" & onwards. The Paul Hornsby who was credited with some of the keyboards on the album was a session player for Capricorn Records, working out of Capricorn Studios in Macon, Georgia. To my knowledge, he is not related to Bruce Hornsby. Oddly, drummer Bobby Caldwell rejoined Captain Beyond for the tour supporting this album, while lead vocalist Rod Evans left after this tour & never returned.
Classic band Great Talent June 13, 2008
B. Tippens (Philadelphia)
This is one of the best bands of the 70s for less than 10 bucks. Thats all that has to be said. Buy Captain Beyond right now. Their first album is the golden nugget, only because its more heavy and has more "experimetal" music, with the off timing and all. They slowed things down a bit for "Sufficiently Breathless", but at the same time, great heavy rock. A must have for music collectors...
The Captain rocks! April 10, 2007
blueline 55 (USA)
If you don't have the first album than by all means buy that now. If you like it, which you will, than you may consider buying the second and third. They all have a different feel and production but are all excellent in their own right. The first Captain Beyond album is one of the best hard rock albums ever made so check it out. Sufficiently Breathless is very, very good just not as hard as the first. Creative song writing and talented musicianship throughout. You won't be disapointed.
BEYONDS BEST April 7, 2007
Michael Calvitto
FANS OF EARLY PINK FLOYD AS WELL AS EARLY DEEP PURPLE FANS WOULD LIKE THIS DISC WITH DPS EX SINGER ROD EVANS. IT IS CLEARLY THIER BEST WORK.
Ultra-luscent Magnetism ! March 22, 2006
Stewart Hickey (Detroit)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
A lot of fans dislike Sufficiently Breathless for the wrong reasons. Original drummer Bobby Caldwell is one of the most underrated drummers in rock. He had the chops of Ginger Baker and the precision of a metronome. When he quit after the first album, the band replaced him with a subpar drummer. Consequently, the second album sounded like what Disreali Gears would have sounded like if Ginger Baker had quit the Cream and been replaced by Nick Mason or Buddy Miles (not that they are incompetant drummers, merely unsuited to a high energy power trio). In late 1973, the original quartet reformed and toured, performing some of the Sufficiently Breathless material. With Caldwell back in the drummer's seat, the second album material really cooked (as evidenced on the excellent quality audience recorded bootleg It's Our Lives).
That said, the music on Sufficiently Breathless is, in some ways, better than that on the legendary first album, which was mostly a catalog of heavy rock riffs strung together into a sort of hard rock suite. The down side of this is that it has a certain sterile, mechanical, repititous quality to it, while the second album actually has songs on it. The band also spiced up it's sound with Latin rhythms and jazz, while maintaining it's psychedelic space rock theme. If you're a tie-dyed in the wool hippie, ya hadda love these guys for refusing to douse the incense and black light in the era of navel-gazing singer-songwriters and camp 50s nostalgia!
To clarify some misconceptions about this album, I read somewhere that the music was composed by Dorman, Rhino, and Evans, but Lee Dorman was given exclusive songwriting credit because Rhino and Evans were still in respective litigation with the managments of Iron Butterfly and Deep Purple. Also, I heard that Rod Evans quit the band in the midst of recording and had to be coaxed back into the studio to complete the album, which is why it's running time is so short.
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