(Review from vintageprog.com)

Pierre van der Linden left the band and was replaced by future Marillion-drummer Ian Mosley. Their second album “Birds” stayed true to the sound of the debut-album.

Side 1 of the album was pretty much what you could expect: classical covers with a few self-written tunes thrown in between. The version of Bach’s “Boureč” is fresh and energetic with a cool clavinet-break in the middle. The version of “Opus 1065″ (another Bach-composition) is a bit more ambitious, and features a guest appearance from Curved Air’s Darryl Way on violin. Interestingly enough there’s also a short cover here of a tune by one of Linden’s very first musical influences: Bix Beiderbecke.

What really makes it worth having is undoubtedly the 22-minute “King Bird Suite”. It’s a very glorious and impressive piece of keyboard-based progressive rock, and it was next to “Gaillarde” probably the best thing the band ever did.

Line-up:
- Rick Van Der Linden / keyboards
- Jaap Van Eik / bass, guitar, vocals
- Ian Mosley / drums, timpani, gong, tambourine
with
- Darryl Way / acoustic & electric violin on 4
- Coen Hoedeman / assorted monkeys on 1

Track List:
01. Bourree (2:27)
02. Snuff (2:28)
03. Janny (In A Mist) (1:15)
04. Opus 1065 (7:46)
05. Penny (2:53)
06. Trixie-Dixie (0:38)
07. King-Bird (22:01)
08. Birds (Short Edit) (3:41)
09. Tabu (Second Version) (4:14)

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