Thanks for that. listening to it. i do actually like bits of it. Went so far as to look it up find this very positive review of it:
http://www.goldminemag.com/reviews/album-reviews/olias-sunhillow-sacd-masterpieceBut , at the end of the day, it just sounds too much like "Yes" for my tastes
Reminded me that prog-rock was not exactly a single, indivisible genre with a single indivisible audience (the way I tend to remember it) My school mate, Ruth loved "Yes" and read a lot of pulp fiction. I loved Pink Floyd and King Crimson, and read a lot of serious SF ( Asimov, Clarke, Aldiss, LeGuin, Siverberg...) We had zero in common, when it came to music, reading, or any other damned thing (so why were we mates? Well, we were both misfits in our fashion, rejected and sneered at by the other little cliques, so we drifted into a sort of underdog's clique; a very bizarre and mismatched little assortment ). Her efforts to convert me to "Yes" fandom just left me cold *sigh*
So anyway, least I can say is : this brings back memories! So, thanks