Curly's Airships
| Curly's Airships | ||||
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| Released | 5 October 2000 | |||
| Recorded | 1994–2000 Masters of Art Studio, Sussex; The Organ Workshop, Lymm, Cheshire and on location in England, France & Holland | |||
| Genre | Art rock, songstory | |||
| Length | 143:56 | |||
| Label | Masters Of Art | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| New Horizons | (not rated) |
| No Warning | (not rated) |
Curly's Airships is a double CD by Judge Smith, released in October 2000. Smith regards the album as a new form of narrative rock music, which he calls "songstory". Curly's Airships tells about the R101 airship, crashing in France during its maiden overseas voyage in 1930. Amongst many others, Peter Hammill, Hugh Banton, Arthur Brown, David Jackson, John Ellis and Pete Brown perform on the project.
Smith believes that the 2 hr 20 min work might be one of the largest and most ambitious single piece of rock music ever recorded.