Camel-Harbours Of Tears (1996)

1996 album, performed by this veteran Progressive Rock band, led by their guitarist Andy Latimer. David Paton and Mae McKennaguest are starring on the album. Released on his own label, Camel productions.
Based on the history of hundreds of thousands of migrant workers who left the port of Cóbh Harbor (Ireland) towards a new life in America. Harbor of Tears is Camel's most ambitious conceptual album from Nude, marking a limit point in the compositions of this group, hardly surmountable for later works. It is a very complete work, with an idiosyncrasy that brings Snowgoose in some way. It is a more delicate album than the previous one, Dust and Dreams, mixing traditional rhythms with the symphonic one offers us a superb work.
The disc has a structure similar to the works of Pink Floyd, the sound is compact, and the result is a global work. It has no parts that stand out much. Colin Bass and David Paton help Latimer in the voices, and he is grateful.
Conclusion:
MASTERPIECE
If you haven't heard it yet, it's not too late to do it, you're missing something really big. Do not hesitate anymore.

Curiosity: Harbor is a collection of stories drawn on a common theme. After the death of his father, Andrew Latimer found that he had no details of his paternal family history. With only one surviving relative, an 86-year-old uncle, Andrew discovered an inheritance in diversity and mystery. His grandfather worked in the Liverpool shipyards; her Irish grandmother was a seamstress of an important Irish family at the end of the 19th century, her descendants traveled to England, Canada, Australia and America. Latimer's investigations ended as soon as they began. No one had kept a family file or a family tree. No one knew where the relatives had gone and the new generation had no idea of ​​their origins. Andrew quickly realized that every person he knew had a history of a lost past. But what seemed a disappointment at the beginning, was transformed into a catalyst for new ideas for music as a memory of Ireland through the memories of its inhabitants. Andrew learned that the last vision his grandmother's family had in Ireland was the port of Cóbh. A beautiful deep harbor, Cóbh witnesses the thousands of fractured families that passed through the Irish port. So great was this human tragedy, that Cóbh was called the "port of tears." For 1,200 souls in Lusitania, Cóbh was the last vision of the past, which disappeared just from Kinsale's old boss, threw the moorings in Cóbh. The statue of the Angel, on stands is the tribute. This common link created the music for Harbor Of Tears.