Principal Edwards Magic Theatre
Soundtrack

LA RECENSIONE

"Soundtrack" is the first of the three works by Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, I won't go on too long, some of you may perhaps know this incredible work, which, in my opinion, holds its own against any other masterpiece in the history of rock, psych, prog, or folk music you like, that is, an absolute masterpiece of the English underground!!!

Created in 1969 by an enlightened collective of university musicians, this is an album that can be schematically defined as psych-folk-hard in its various moments, which contains within it the perfection and balance of the best prog works, which is the coherent extension of musical narrative that is then a fundamental condition for assessing its greatness and value beyond genre and technical quality. What differentiates it from many other works is the "Magic" with which it is infused, the strangeness, the melancholy, and the originality of the folk of the best English tradition, in other moments, the dryness, and simplicity of the hard executed with non-excessive watts, which gives it a pleasantly nonconformist dimension, enriching the "musical tale" of rare beauty and then the psych-emotive condition infused with melancholic nostalgia toward all that is undefined and deep belonging to the fairy-tale dimension of singing and sounds that float in mood changes from nostalgic-intimate to more superficial and naturalistic situations. The tracks: "Enigmatic Insomniac Machine", "Sacrifice", "Death of Don Quixote", "Third Sonnet to Sunday Notes of Music", "To a Broken Guitar", "Pinky: A Mystery Cycle". I recommend it to all those who are lovers of late '60s-early '70s music and who know how to appreciate that type of electro-acoustic music distant from the technological emphasis of the '80s, yet still maintaining its strength and a sound impact that stands up to its contemporaries.

As you've noticed, I'm not a standard reviewer (I don't know how to play the journalist or music critic) a generalized trend of many who write on this De/site and whom I respect, I'm just someone who's pleased to bring to your attention something not very well known, which has not yet been published and deserves justice! What do you think of my proposal?