Ian Lynn: Forgotten Summer (Thanks to whoever mentioned) Plus Party in the Rain by Pete Brown

A random review:

This is an all instrumental treasure that's worth its weight in gold. Mr Lynn plays all manner of keyboards, including acoustic piano, organ, Fender Rhodes electric piano, Sequential Circuit Prophet 5, Mini-Moog, Hohner clavinet and the ancient Crewmar Brassman, along with the Rose Morris Westwood bass, the sound of which here is superbly delineated. Fine support is provided by Bob Jenkins on drums and Martin Ditcham on percussion. Had Rick Wakeman written and performed this, he would have been justifiably proud ~ it's better even than Six Wives in my book. If he's ever heard it, I'll bet he wish he had.
Following the (quite long) storming opener, Another Good Reason, the album moves into more pastoral territory, but it isn't dull for a single moment. Rather, it really does capture the essence of a nearly forgotten summer, with many wonderfully evocative moments, moving to a brilliant climax with First Finale. Not to be overlooked, though, is the wonderful closer to (what was) Side 1, Grey Sky Blue(s), which rounds off in superb style the first half of a magnificently coherent album ~ a concept album, I suppose.
Written, arranged and produced by Mr Lynn, the album was recorded at Millstream and Scorpio Sound and engineered by Nick Critchley and Dennis Weinrich, who also did the mixing, all in late 1980. Forgotten Summer was highly regarded at the time of its release and apparently gained him much work in the professional music world.
Find Forgotten Summer and buy it. Your life will be enriched. 35 years on, I still love this album and play it regularly.

It's great, and you'll love it.  Here's the best song in my opinion, called Some Day Soon, you could say it's as good as some of the Jun Fukamachi we posted here before (multiple times):

From discogs:
Pete Brown is a
British poet and musician born December 25, 1940, best known for his writing collaboration with Jack Bruce of Cream.

Perhaps best known to us progsters for his Pete Brown and Piblokto works, which to me are disappointing.  He seems to have disappeared somewhat in the seventies years following until he came back with this really lovely, pop-inflected, slightly jazzy and funky vocals album in the early 80s, with involvement by Ian Lynn that is confusing to me (he wrote the music?) that to me recalls the wonderful 2 later Michael de Albuquerques I treasure so much-- I don't know if I posted them here before or just refer back to them on a constant basis.  Too tired from lack of sleep due to covid-worrying to bother to check.  Or you could say it's very similar to the fusionary Jack Bruce progressive songwriting on albums like Out of the Storm.  Anyways, I was really thrilled with this record, and I want to thank the guy who brought my attention to it, a million thank yous, consider the phenomenal song Still Have the Love, I mean, if you told me this was written by Jack Bruce I wouldn't have been surprised: