Less Assured in the Leaving
The final album before the band split, [reforming briefly 5
years later] this opens with a Mike Heron song Maker of Islands which is orchestral and gorgeous, followed by a
live Robin Williamson song Cold February
with sweet flute/recorder, organ and Robin’s unique vocal. Two gems. Then there’s
Dumb Kate, a hillbilly pastiche,
though perhaps not as intentionally ironic as one would want as an excuse. Fuel
for those critics [read previous on Earthspan].
So the other main interest apart from the two openers is closer Ithkos at 20 minutes of initially Greek-sounding
instrumental that becomes electric and folkprog and marginally heavy at one
point and then into familiar acid folk but with some more heaviness, this time
an amped violin, but continuing to chop and change across these signaled
movements:
Sardis (Oud Tune)
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Lesbos-Dawn
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Lesbos-Evening
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Aegean Sea
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Dreams Fade
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Port Of Sybaris
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Go Down Sybaris
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Huntress
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Hold My Gaze
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It is an experiment not all that experimental in reality and
perhaps signaled the ending of the band in an elegiac way as, midway in, Dreams Fade sweeps through peacefully
and prettily, though it moves out of this again swiftly into the riff rich Port of Sybaris, and so on.
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