The Moody Blues
Days Of Future Passed

I have always considered the Moody Blues one of the best ensembles of the 60s. In such a prolific musical period, their music sheds any cliché to perhaps create the most successful symphonic-rock work ever produced. As progenitors of a proto-prog movement along with Jethro Tull and a few other groups, our Moody Blues embark on this album with the not-so-easy task of constructing a concept album based on the flow of time over the 24 hours of a day; indeed, the structure of the record starts from dawn to follow, song by song, an entire day.

Apart from the grandeur of the entire work—indeed the London Festival Orchestra accompanies the band—what stands out is the right "contrast" between the orchestral sections and those sung and played by the group led by Justin Hayward. Often the "leap" is almost imperceptible as between the initial "The Day Begins" and the subsequent "Dawn," other times it is more pronounced see the transition from "Afternoon" to "Evening"; despite the initial perplexities that can assail those who listen to such a masterpiece for the first time, I assure you that it will not be at all boring to devote time and attention to this work, the only mistake you can make is, as always, to overuse it.
The sound setting is that of a melodramatic film, featuring an intense love that takes a turn, perhaps tragic. The same melancholic and dramatic mood is felt in the final passage of the album "The Night - Nights In White Satin," an epochal track taken up in several episodes by various formations such as the Italian beatnik in 1968 after the Italian lyricist Paci takes off with his imagination with "Ho difeso il mio amore"; the "white satin" of a nightgown probably encapsulates within it the fateful end of a lost love, the only remnant of a passion tragically extinguished.

"Days Of Future Passed" will become your travel companion throughout the duration of each day you live and will never abandon you, I assure you.