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International relevance: **
EGBA's albums got
gradually less interesting as their popularity grew. True they got more proficient, but it's the first album aura of their 1974 debut that
appeals to me the most. By 1981 they were an enormously tight jazz
fusion outfit clearly impressed with the likes of The Crusaders and
Herbie Hancock's Headhunters with undertows of Latin and African
rhythms as known from EGBA's earlier albums. ”Omen” also shares a few
traits with the reborn Miles Davis's ”The Man With The Horn”
released the very same year. Although I'm nowhere near a fan of
fusion jazz, there are still the occassional 70's album that displays
wit, joy of discovery and search for a new, vital expression, but by
the early 80's, it had become a style for middle managers in
television rimmed glasses and brown polyester suits. Very much like "Omen".
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