Solar Plexus - Earth Songs from 1980, fresh rip from LP

 

It's a good thing I bought and ripped this, in order to complete the discography. It's quite impressively written and squarely in the progressive US fusion tradition with a little latin, some chamber arrangements, and quite diverse in its range.  What a shame these guys threw in the towel after this, and the 5th disc!!  All the info here.  Note all compositions by Randy Masters and pianist / producer Berthiaume.

In fact, behold the track by Berthiaume called Behold a Pale Horse which presents to us all that is magnificent in not only dramatic fusion composition but human-generated music, in general, as far as I'm concerned:

Unfortunately, the last track, a simplistic blues-jazz piece that sounds like something out of the early 50s, is a total throwaway (at least for me).