So here is an oddity from the Prog Rock World - The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony (The Birth and Death of a World). Maybe not everyones cuppa tea but well worth a listen.
Some of you may know of Mr Greenslade from Coleseum or the band Greenslade, this offering was inspired by the drawings and words of David Woodroffe. The double LP is probably as progy as anyone can get, it is a complete and total concept both from a pictorial, written and musical form. It is effectively a story of how the solar system came into being and mankind. It mixes sci-fi with a fight for good and evil and the involvement of a god. It is very allegorical in its approach. The album comes in the form of a book with 2 LPs, the intention is to read the book and listen to the music at the same time. The drawings and paintings are quite wonderful and the music is pretty good all instruments played by Dave Greenslade, primarily electronic keyboards, moons and tubular bells, and church organ, drums on some tracks are by Phil Collins. Some of the music verges on orchestral composition, and some has a pop and rock feel, it is all quite expressive.
There is a very prophetic comment and poem at the end of the book care of Patrick Woodroffe
Man is a danger, though less of a danger to the universe than to himself.
Man is in danger.
As the angel, in Haydn's oratorio "The Creation" warned Adam and Eve when they were given custody of the garden.
O happy pair, and happy evermore
Provided folly lead you not astray
To wish for more than you have
Or more to know than for you good.
Patrick Woodroffe / Dave Greenslade – The Pentateuch Of The Cosmogony
Label: EMI – EMSP 332
Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Book
Country: UK
Released: 1979
CD version if you are interested:-
Label: BGO Records – BGOCD170
Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
I can find no digital versions on Tidal, Qobuz or Spotify so as the album notes state I think copyright is strictly controlled.
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