Friday, April 22, 2005

Album of Yesterday

Marsbeli Kronikak, by Solaris (1995): This has the distinction of being the only disc by a Hungarian band in my collection (the title translates to The Martian Chronicles). It was one of those really obscure "must have" prog discs of the 80s that was rereleased on CD in the mid 90s and became more widely available. My initial impression was a mostly, "eh," but listening to it yesterday made me appreciate it quite a bit more. It's mostly instrumental (very light "ooh" vocals here and there) neo-prog, with occasional Eastern European folk influences and a lot of Ian Anderson-ish flute. Pretty good stuff, really.

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