Re: Music

From: Richard J. Pugh <rjpugh@???????.net>

>Are their any pieces of music out there that
>somehow remind you of Spelljammer?  Please
>respond personally; no sense clogging the list
>with this.

I'm replying publicly because I'm really curious if anyone has heard this
album and how they might feel about my interpretation.

One piece of music that leaps to the fore if you're talking about a
SpellJamming feel is an album called "Olias of Sunhillow" by Jon Anderson.
I've got to warn you though, Jon Anderson is one of the creative forces
behind Yes and he's largely responsible for their wacked out lyrics all
through the 70s. If you liked their albums up to and including Tormato, get
Olias as soon as you can!

The reasons I say that it reminds me strongly of SpellJamming is it seems to
be exactly what the album is about. Right on the cover is what appears to be
some kind of Jammer that looks like a fish-like ship with wings. And it's
definitely a concept album in that the tracks on the album all flow together
and tell a story.

As near as I can tell, it's about this guy called Olias that builds a ship,
called the Moorglade Mover, because of a dream he had. And once the ship is
built, the finally set sail but not onto the sea. It's hard to follow they
lyrics (it's Jon Anderson remember) but it appears that they sail into the
sky into some Roger Dean-esque type of fantasy world.

It's a *great* album if you're into progressive rock.

And no, Anderson didn't copy SpellJammer. The album was released in 1976.
:-)

Rick.
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