The fourth album from this band from Great Britain.
The band was a quartet with a lineup of bass, guitars, keyboards, whistles, saxophones and vocals.
The band got support from a drummer and two vocalists.
This is the third edition of these songs. Most of them was recorded and released on cassette albums in the 1980s. They were also released as the 1993 debut Cyan album For King And Country before they saw a proper recording and release last year as this album I am now reviewing.
Complicated ? Just the norm for the first neo-prog bands. Bands like Cyan who operated in a truly underground market. There was no interest whatsoever for progressive rock, unless you went pop or AOR, in the 1980s. No underground record labels either. Cassette albums it was and some shoddy productions.
Hence Robert Reed, the Cyan and Magenta mainman took actions.
And rightly so !
The songs are not great. But they are good and long neo-prog songs with some epic melodies and good details.
This one hour long album is nothing less than classic neo-prog with all the bad and all the good things with this genre.
It is indeed an album well worth checking out. Cyan and Robert Reed has got my utmost respect with this album.
3 points
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