Romantic Warrior's Planet by request

 

After the first ST album named of course after Return to Forever's opus, and posted here, they seem to have lost their way in my opinion with digital keys and drums, electronic, ethnic and new age importations in the second and third albums. Others will surely disagree though.  I guess it's important for everyone to feel they've completed the discography, which can be found here.

An example of the older guitar-based style (as on the ST) is Savannah Talk:

While the electronic digitalese is featured on tracks like this one, Reflexion au jour (note the digital harp):

The First Romantic Warrior from 1981, Germany (more to come)

Cd reissue wishlist reviewed this one long ago, with a priority none.  Personally I really like it, due to its inventive electric guitar-based fusion music.  Their next two albums went in a more new agey direction as you can tell from the titles: Planets, and Himalaya.  They are oddly rare altogether, though the music is quite enjoyable and listenable.

My favourite track is the ST one with its meditative minor chords, and the modulations are just ingenious. Note the use of the fuzzy vocoder (?) in the guitar solo later on:

Like Sir Gawain, the romantic warrior seems to have been a very tragic hero.