Principal Edwards Magic Theatre.-Soundrack,1969 (full album) What would have happened if William Shakespeare, during the recital of one of his poems and amidst the full atmosphere of ancient English literary/musical tradition, had decided to pick up an electric guitar and start playing Rock-Blues, complete with a solo? Well, that’s exactly what happens in "Third Sonnet to Sundry Notes of Music," which is also "Shakespeare recited, accompanied and sung with music evoking echoes of ancient Britannia that suddenly bursts into rock-blues riffs and vocality." But nothing else here beats "Pinky: A Mystery Cycle": a psychedelic theater piece, avant-garde Haslamian Renaissance, theater and acid-psych-folk-rock merge into one, with masks (see footage from live performances), recitations, Viv's voice transporting you to distant times, and the ancestral exaltation of the mystical magic of nature, all captured in the ethos of this rich and original ensemble of cultured English/British students, highlighted by an extraordinary atmospheric electric solo from Root Cartwright, a great guitarist as well as the main composer of the group’s music. And that's it; I will continue to promote this album and the equally fabulous subsequent one to the point of madness.
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