Joel Horwitz with The Planets, recorded 1978, By Request

 

Minimal information on this one here on discogs.  Seems to have been recorded in 1978 which makes sense based on the quality of the music.  Very interesting find though, and beautifully played too.

I have to apologize first off because the tracks all run into each other, but because of my acquired attention deficit I won't listen to a 20 minute long rip without fast forward, so I split the individual pieces up, sometimes not quite successfully at the joins or transitions.

A2, Sol: present a great introduction to the rest of the work, which to be honest is quite similar to the scifi atmosphere of Cybernation Dark Plane:

Track B2's Jupiter, with vocals, really knocks it out of the prog ballpark (wherever that ballpark may be but it's for sure not crowded in the stands):

B4's Uranus is quite lovely with its incandescent, synthy shimmering chord changes, reminding me of my fave Alan Hawkshaw at his greatest:

As usual we must mourn the demotion of poor Pluto, who is no longer considered a bona fide planet. (There are too many similar sized bodies occuping the same orbit as him.)

Thanks so much to OC for requesting this treasure and I hope everyone out there is able to enjoy it.