(Review from wikipedia, progarchives.com)

Traffic’s distinctive sound, innovative recordings and collaborative songwriting approach influenced many other groups in the progressive rock genre in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Like many other groups of the period, Traffic was heavily influenced by the early recordings of The Band, and they also retreated to a country house (in Berkshire, England) at the beginning of their career in order to write and develop their material before making their live debut.

Winwood, Capaldi, Mason and Wood created an amazing album of seemingly different influences and approach. Psychedelic keyboards, hard guitar solo a la Cream, British folk and music-hall, jazz paranoia and Indian raga with overall Winwood’s soulful voice make an album that can be enjoyed over and over. Mason gives important musical component with his guitar, bass and sitar, offering one of the best raga moments in rock music, “Utterly Simple”, which beats the Fab Four’s “Within You, Without You” by and large in my opinion. Each song has its place on this mature record, but the title track – allegedly drug-influenced imagination – “Dear Mr. Fantasy” (which was to be honoured by such giants as Grateful Dead on their last official live set “Without a Net” in 1989), beautiful flute ballad “No Face, No Name, No Number”, and “Coloured Rain” with distinguished Wood’s saxophone are the highlights. One can notice that the peculiar sound of Traffic, with dominating organ, piano and woodwinds (sax and flute) and with ever diminishing presence of lead guitar and bass guitar, makes it a sort of precursor of the acts like Van der Graaf Generator, albeit coming from different attitude: VDGG were always more avant-garde and “classically” influenced than Traffic, who sticked with R’n'B, folk and jazz scheme. However, Wood’s saxophone at certain moments sounds almost as crazy as Dave Jaxon’s!

This 24 bit remastered reissue, as a bonus, includes all the 12 tracks from the U.S. mono album.

Line-up:
- Steve Winwood / vocals, guitar, piano, harpsichord, organ, bass, percussion
- Dave Mason / vocals, guitar, sitar, tamboura, shakkai, Mellotron, bass
- Chris Wood / vocals, flute, saxophone, organ
- Jim Capaldi / vocals, drums, percussion

Track List:
01. Heaven Is In Your Mind
02. Berkshire Poppies
03. House for Everyone
04. No Face, No Name, No Number
05. Dear Mr. Fantasy
06. Dealer
07. Utterly Simple
08. Coloured Rain
09. Hope I Never Find Me There
10. Giving to You
11. Paper Sun (Bonus)
12. Dealer (Bonus)
13. Coloured Rain (Bonus)
14. Hole In My Shoe (Bonus)
15. No Face, No Name, No Number (Bonus)
16. Heaven Is In Your Mind (Bonus)
17. House For Everyone (Bonus)
18. Berkshire Poppies (Bonus)
19. Giving To You (Bonus)
20. Smiling Phases (Bonus)
21. Dear Mr. Fantasy (Bonus)
22. We’re A Fade You Missed This (Bonus)

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