Gargamel- Watch For The Umbles

[Yves]

Anyone know where I can find a digital download for this one? I have recently rediscovered this band's 2008 release "Descending" and am totally into it! Would like to add this one and possibly even their debut EP to my collection.

[Scrotum Scissor]

I don't know if a digital download ever even existed. I've got the CD, and I seem to remember a very limited vinyl edition too (I might be mistaken, though), but I never saw any digital downloads on offer.

[Yves]

I figured as much... I bought Descending on iTunes about 7 or 8 years ago, but this one is not there... I checked Transubstans site and they didn't offer one either. I'll have to make other arrangements .

[Trane]

it's still one of my fave 00's retro-prog albums

And I like it better than their second by a fair margin too.

[Yves]

All the more reason why I want to get my hands on it!

A track from "Descending" kicked up last week on my iPod and stopped me in my tracks. I have had the record in regular rotation since.. It has made me start looking for this one.

[ashratom]

Great album. Like SS, bought the CD when it was first released. My notes: "Whereas fellow countrymen Wobbler took the Genesis/Crimson package through the Anglagard axis, Gargamel opted for the darker VDGG through the Landberk filter. The Hammill-esque vocals take on that European slant, perhaps in the manner of Italy's Garden Wall, but without the histrionics (nor the metal tendencies). Also love the cover: A dreary, gray 1970's era inner-city apartment building, accented with a snow piled streetlight. In a genre filled with computer generated fantasy covers, this can be a startling view indeed - and fits the music like hand in glove."

[Zappathustra]

I figured as much... I bought Descending on iTunes about 7 or 8 years ago, but this one is not there... I checked Transubstans site and they didn't offer one either. I'll have to make other arrangements .

Send me your email in a personal message if you still need help with that

[100423]

Great album. Like SS, bought the CD when it was first released. My notes: "Whereas fellow countrymen Wobbler took the Genesis/Crimson package through the Anglagard axis, Gargamel opted for the darker VDGG through the Landberk filter. The Hammill-esque vocals take on that European slant, perhaps in the manner of Italy's Garden Wall, but without the histrionics (nor the metal tendencies). Also love the cover: A dreary, gray 1970's era inner-city apartment building, accented with a snow piled streetlight. In a genre filled with computer generated fantasy covers, this can be a startling view indeed - and fits the music like hand in glove."

Great, now I have to hear this too.

[Peter Panther]

Hocus pocus, a full record youTube video of that apprentice mage. ..yeah, you are so right. Accent may hapm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAqV...yGSYrLpGRo48Fl

if he can cope with'em several blue sky-caperers so to say, we might even spell a word without moving our lips over to those illiterates all over the plaices. You take that cover in case of dangling lousy speakers. Wostha'? Cappuccina is leaking. Percolatorz, navigators. ...ciao!-)

[mellotron storm]

Tough for me to pick one of their two albums over the other. Pretty much a toss up but I do like this band a lot. Hammill-like vocals and I like the flute. I was reminded of Sinkadus with that flute at times but certainly VDGG, KC and Anekdoten were brought to mind more often.

[Zappathustra]

I also think these are two equally fantastic records. I was - once again - surprised by some comments trying to reduce their music into some sort of Van Der Graaf cloning. Certainly vocals are Hammil-like, especially in the debut, but their influences are far richer and more varied than this, including jazz music, 60's psych, Nordic folk and - why not? - doom metal (slow heavy riffs frequently played on the Hammond). The brilliant flute/bass/cello section in Strayed Again is very reminiscent of the double bass/flute lines on John Coltrane's "Ole".

[Yves]

Send me your email in a personal message if you still need help with that

I have it covered, thank you .