Earthrise the legendary US Band from 1978 plus more from 2017

 

Discogged here. I think everyone knows their 1978 masterpiece of symphonic prog with the beautiful cover painting, very similar to traditional US prog bands Ethos, my favourite Cathedral Stained Glass Stories, etc. A wonderful one. 

I just by chance was looking at the discography though, and observed they had a more recent release. Happily, it's one of those instances where a classic prog sound led to some nice further material well worth hearing, similar to the case with Happy the Man.  So in 2017 came Day 2. 

I never imagined the olde English epic of Beowulf would be represented as a hard-driving dissonant electric guitar riff as herein, youtubed here.

It's Frippesque, classic...  Top of my playlist all week-- all month?

For a gentler track, Reverie is youtubed here. A few tracks are similarly worth hearing, over and over again, with enough creative intensity and originality to interest us greatly.

Note that Bill Drobile their keyboardist, confusingly, put out a solo album in the same year called For Earthrise. Sorry to say that one is not quite as good as the group effort. Unfortunately that one is not listed on youtube and doesn't appear there at all. Overall with the keyboards heavy sound it is a lot like my old rip of Don Muro, which was posted way back here. My issue, sorry to say, is with the level of composition which although proggy is not quite inventive enough (for our jaded ears) though the overall sound is definitely symphonic progressive rock.

Sadly, Bill passed away 2 years after this release.