Manna / Mirage
Download links and information about Manna / Mirage by The Muffins. This album was released in 1978 and it belongs to Rock, Progressive Rock genres. It contains 4 tracks with total duration of 48:36 minutes.
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| Artist: | The Muffins |
| Release date: | 1978 |
| Genre: | Rock, Progressive Rock |
| Tracks: | 4 |
| Duration: | 48:36 |
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Tracks
[Edit]| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | Monkey With the Golden Eyes | 4:02 |
| 2. | Hobart Got Burned | 5:59 |
| 3. | Amelia Earhart | 15:47 |
| 4. | The Adventures of Captain Boomerang (for Mike Forrester) | 22:48 |
Details
[Edit]Manna/Mirage was the Muffins' first album and remained their best work. It is a fantastic blend of Canterbury prog and Henry Cow-ish intricacy, with a soupçon of improvisation. Completely instrumental, the music can also be linked to Happy the Man for its melodic side. "Monkey With the Golden Eyes" is a nice introductory track seguing into the fantastic "Hobart Got Burned," which starts with a calm atonal improvisation and builds up to a bombastic main theme. Then comes "Amelia Earhart" (16 minutes), a track superior to anything that came out of Canterbury. You must hear it to believe it. Canterbury-type prog never got that good. Finally, "The Adventures of Captain Boomerang" (23 minutes) is a long complex suite, with a humorous touch not unlike some of National Health's material. Manna/Mirage would have become a classic prog album, if only it had come out of Canterbury instead of late-'70s U.S.A. Since Cuneiform Records reissued it on CD in 1991, the album has enjoyed quite a bit of fame in progressive rock circles. ~ François Couture, Rovi