London Underground "Honey Drops" 2010 Italy Psych Space Rock
Line-up / Musicians
-Gianluca Gerlini / Hammond C3, piano, wurlitzer, fender rhodes, mellotron
-Alessandro Gimignani /drums
-Fabio Baini /bass
guests
-Stefano Negri /sax
-Riccardo Cavalieri /acoustic and electric guitars,violas
-Sergio Taglioni /moog,mellotron and synful orchestra
After very good "Through A Glass Darkly" and 7 years break, London Underground strikes back with new (3rd) album and re-formed line-up. The only original member which left in the band is organist Gianluca Gerlini, who joined forces with Alessandro Gimignani (drums) & Fabio Baini (bass). As much as I liked previous rhythm section of Stefano Gabbani (also vocals) & Daniele Caputo (both from very impressive formation called Standarte), I still have to say that I love new sound of London Underground: instrumental only psychy/jazzy/proggy organ-driven power trio. "Honey Drops" is a really entertaining release filled with highly energetic new versions of some well known & totally obscure rock classics from 60' and 70' + few original compositions of the band. It's also worth noticing that despite being Hammond-drenched prog trio, London Underground doesn't sound like ELP or Triumvirat at all. They music is much more rooted in 60' & early 70' psychedelic rock, jazz, blues, rhythm&blues and early progressive rock.
"Honey Drops" is a fantastic album which should please all fans of retro-prog and instrumental psychedelia. Particularly I'd like to suggest it to fans of jazz/blues-rock organ master Brian Auger, heavy prog Atomic Rooster and psychy/soul Lee Michaels, but I think that all fans of early 70s prog acts (like Cressida, Beggar's Opera, Aardvark, Quatermass etc.) will love this staff too. If you like "Honey Drops" material you should also check out band called Captain Hammond which is organ-led trio with similar but slightly more R'n'B/soul oriented music.
