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Hidden Depth
Review written by Roger Walters, March 7th, 2011
Just like the title of one of the tracks, this album has "Hidden Depth" that will reveal itself to you if you are ready to receive. I have owned this album since first release on vinyl, then cassette and now CD. It is the only album I have ever owned that my appreciation of its content, its beauty, its depth has never diminished. Many other albums I loved fade and become discarded in time; not this one. It is "Timeless Time".
When I listen to "The End Of The Game" it is like it surrounds me and I am in that bubble. I can feel everything Peter Green felt in its conception and performance. No matter how well known his other work is and how little known this album is, I know this album is the embodiment of Peter Green. Without knowing him or his views on his work, I have always firmly believed that this album is the one he is proudest of. With it, he reached the pinnacle that all artistes aspire to but rarely achieve, and he knew it.
Music is the weird place where the best never reaches the top. "The End Of The Game" challenges your soul, whilst the most successful in sales does not. Sales are achieved because it is easily digestible, easy to connect to.
It is strange, but should this album ever achieve the acclaim it deserves, it would lessen its beautiful mystery. "The End Of The Game" should only be found by those seeking the extraordinary Truth.
Hidden Depth
Review written by Roger Walters, March 7th, 2011
Just like the title of one of the tracks, this album has "Hidden Depth" that will reveal itself to you if you are ready to receive. I have owned this album since first release on vinyl, then cassette and now CD. It is the only album I have ever owned that my appreciation of its content, its beauty, its depth has never diminished. Many other albums I loved fade and become discarded in time; not this one. It is "Timeless Time".
When I listen to "The End Of The Game" it is like it surrounds me and I am in that bubble. I can feel everything Peter Green felt in its conception and performance. No matter how well known his other work is and how little known this album is, I know this album is the embodiment of Peter Green. Without knowing him or his views on his work, I have always firmly believed that this album is the one he is proudest of. With it, he reached the pinnacle that all artistes aspire to but rarely achieve, and he knew it.
Music is the weird place where the best never reaches the top. "The End Of The Game" challenges your soul, whilst the most successful in sales does not. Sales are achieved because it is easily digestible, easy to connect to.
It is strange, but should this album ever achieve the acclaim it deserves, it would lessen its beautiful mystery. "The End Of The Game" should only be found by those seeking the extraordinary Truth.
A pre-Jazz Rock Fusion exploration ...
Review written by Anonymous, November 4th, 2007
... leading to 'Hidden Depths' and other unexpected moods.
Janus-faced because of Green's obviously confused emotional world at that time on the one hand, but outspoken with it's musical and sound visions on the other. When I heard it first in summer 1977, I was just starting to play guitar myself and had learned to love the latest Fleetwood Mac album with Green, "Then play on". But this solo album was so different I couldn't for a long time make up my mind what this music was. What was it? No Rock, no Blues, no Jazz Rock, no Jazz, no Acid Rock, no ...
however, I loved it more and more. Until I felt it's emotional 'depths' were of a kind that drew me into a thing that wasn't healthy. I still do think this today. I only recommend the album to people I know have a stable character. It is one of the albums you can't let play in the background while having a small talk or doing other business. Which is - in fact - a positive mark of its artistic quality for me.
Peter Green opened a view into an emotional room you will have to be able to bear, otherwise you can't enjoy his musical vision as a player at that time. He was far ahead of his time musically, no doubt about that. If you aren't able to bear it's mood in a particular moment - better keep out. I still feel like that, after 30 years of listening to it.
You want some comparison of where to put this album musically? Think of Hendrix "Cry of Love" (1970), of Miles Davis "Agartha" and "Pangaea" (both 1975) albums (Green & Davis: They should have met, anyhow). You think these musicians are too far from each other to be called together in one chapter here? Right, maybe. But Peter Green and the rest of this electrified improvisation music group consisting of Zoot Money, Godfrey McLean, Nick Buck and ex-Zappa bassist Alex Dmochowski, went crossing this vast music ocean and achieved some remarkable glimpses of a (then) new music.
This album is far underestimated until today. 'Outstanding' in a literal sense.
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Original US Release: April 1971
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