Released in1973, the line-up of QUICKSAND s only album was JIMMYDAVIESon guitar and vocals, PHIL DAVIESon bass and vocals,ROBERT COLLINS on organ, mellotron and vocals andANTHONY STONE on drums and percussion. Hailing from Neath inSouth Wales, the band was the original group of bassguitarist WILL YOUATT who was to join fellow Welsh ProgRockersMAN prior to the recording of the band s sole albumfor Pye Records Progressive imprint, Dawn. ~įirst Ever Uk Cd Release Of The Classic 1973Album By The Welsh Progressive Group QuicksandThe First Ever Remaster From The FirstGeneration Master TapesBooklet With Fully Restored Artwork & Essay Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the first everofficial UK release of the self titled album by WelshProgressive Rock outfit QUICKSAND. 3-3.5, a pleasent album for sure with good musicianship. 3 stars, a good album to me, not realy something never heared before, and possibly at same level with other very well known albums from that period or little earlier like Red sea (Warhorse), Spring or Cressida. A worthy album, quite unnoticed but must be heared at least couple of times. The guitar is very good alternating from acustic to a more rougher moments typical for heavy prog sound but in same vein with the keyboards arrangements. A quite intristing and adventurous in places album, specialy on longer pieces, with nice vocal parts and good keyboards, mostly mellotron but aswell some piano are used to give to the album a proper atmosphere. The album is well constructed alternating from pure heavy prog pieces like Sunlight Brings Shadows, Seasons - Alpha Omega, Overcome The Pattern, or the title track Home is where I belong, with similariry with Uriah Heep ( Demons and wizards era) and some mellowere ones, it may be some folk influences on these one but only here and there like Empty Street Empty Heart, the beggining is absolutly a Beatles atmosphere. Also they have a psychedelic feel, the atmosphere, the arrangements remind me more of the early '70’s, 1970-1971. They are more a heavy prog band rather then a folk one, taken influencesfrom bands like Warhorse, Allman Brothers, Spring and even some Beatles and Uriah Heep mood, specialy on some vocal parts. This band was and is quite unknow to larger public in contrast with the music which is very good. Quicksand is one of those obscure bands from mid '70’s who release only one album in summer of 1974 named very suggestive Home is where I belong. Mellotron on three tracks, with small string parts on “Sunlight Brings Shadows” and “Overcome The Pattern/Flying”, with more strings and brass on “Seasons/Alpha Omega” no surprise that the 'Tron comes in on the longer, proggier tracks. The rest of the album veers between boring and vaguely adventurous, although QUICKSAND were never really going to be front-runners. “Hideaway My Song” is typically uninteresting mid-‘70s 'rock’, although “Sunlight Brings Shadows” ups the ante a little by bringing in a faint GENTLE GIANT influence, would you believe. OK, it doesn’t they basically bordered prog without really immersing themselves wholeheartedly in the style, having much in common with other proto-prog outfits such as CRESSIDA or SPRING, although less interesting. Hailing from South Wales, the cover pic makes them look like a rare form of hippy miner, which vaguely describes the music herein. The rear sleeve of their sole album, “Home Is Where I Belong”, actually has a band bio, along with a bucolic view of a classic Welsh valley, complete with a sheep, although it obviously neglects to give any useful instrumental information. QUICKSAND are one of those bands about which little seems to be known while the band members’ names are easily found, what they played is another matter, although it seems they had a fairly standard guitar/bass/keys/drums lineup.