Getting it on with Prog

The Enid lps previous to Seed & Sower all are of the same

romantic/symphonic tonepoem mode. Aerie Faerie Nonesense is the standout

for my money.



Perhaps the most unique group in prog -unique in that so very few

groups - if any - adopted their complex classical-pastoral formula.



Seed & sower is important in that this was the last lp on which the

guitarist Stephan Stewart participated.



Godfrey had the association of both composers Benjamin Britten and

Tippett. The rare solo lp, "Fall of Hyperion" is based around the

poems of Keats. I can see non-progheads hitting the top of the

cringability scale on listening to this lp -this could be indeed the

height of bombasticability.

But of course, just as NOTHING is dated and there is nothing at all

wrong with pretentiousness in music, Hyperion provides a fine listen.



Its curious that the Enid's first lp was down to be titled "Voyage of

the Acolyte". (And the orig. keysman was one Nick Magnus, to later

work on the Hackett solo lps!)



"Region of the Summer Stars" is a concept based around the occult

writings of Charles Williams (who was a

member of the Inklings along with C.S.Lewis and Tolkien)