For those not in the know, Peter Daltrey now completes a trilogy begun in print. Three Ladders was a long-form biographical poem; Three Rooms gathered other poetry.

Rather than make a third book, Daltrey closes the sequence with Three Windows, a 14-track, 63-minute album that brings the present into conversation with his past.

“Caraminda,” “I Am All the Animals” and “Song for You” — three Daltrey/Pumer compositions held back for a long-planned retrospective — receive new recordings.

Daltrey also revisits the solo songs “White and Blue” and “England” among a larger program of new compositions. Written, performed and produced by Daltrey, with Derek Head adding saxophone to “Takeaway,” the album is available as the complete 14-track CD and a 10-track vinyl sequence personally edited by Peter. The trilogy ends with the music still looking outward.

1. Caraminda
2. I Am All the Animals
3. Song for You
4. Takeaway
5. Breathe
6. The Sparrow Wind
7. On a Winters Night
8. Paint the Whole World Blue
9. Go with the Flow
10. England
11. Young and Old
12. Silver Street
13. White and Blue
14. Three Windows

The lead singer and keyboard player of ’60s psychedelic British band Kaleidoscope, Peter continues to set his crystal-clear vocals and highly literate lyrics to hypnotic new age melodies, and showcases just that by opening his new recording on the road weary Caraminda, the engaging I Am All the Animals and the low slung, harmonica-driven ambiance of Song for You, and they are in turn backed by the rocker Takeaway, the pleasingly atmospheric Breathe, before both an aching yearn within The Sparrow Wind and a Johnny Cash-hued take On a Winters Night are brought forth.

Along next is the spatially sonorous Paint the Whole World Blue and the gently rambunctious Go with the Flow and then we are gifted the beautiful balladry of England, an affectingly emotive Young and Old, the set rounding out on the impassioned Silver Street, the generous storytelling within White and Blue, coming to a close on the evocatively voiced title cut Three Windows.

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