Camel [ neoclassical music ]

Camel were one of the defining bands of the progressive rock of the 1970s, which in adopting styles from jazz and classical music approximated a theory influenced more by the neoclassical than the rock, leading to vivid and epic compositions which attempted to reach new levels of philosophical and musical abstraction in the turbulent society of the time, which many saw as mired in values old enough to be archaic but not far-reaching enough to be ancient. Where many bands fell short on the old fashioned songwriting angle, Camel hit hard with melodically-centered but open and smoothly fluid songs.