Sunday, 6 August 2023

Busy Making Progress aka Beyond Illusion from Michael Cassidy, 1978

 

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That Progress cover drawing is absolutely beautiful, again. What a joy to see such artwork from the times. On the other hand, the alternate photographic cover, a bit puzzling to me...

I came across this totally accidentally and boy am I happy I did, a totally unknown ssw type LP with a lot of progressive ideas with born again Xian lyrics, by Michael Cassidy.  Note that it appeared under his artist name here (named Beyond Illusion) and then again as Busy Making Progress, with the amazing art and obviously ironic title. The music is really inventive with some odd chord changes, interesting arrangements, the usual bag of tricks we expect from musical work that is really in the progressive spirit, not just claims to be that on those dumb reviews.

The first track is quite captivating:



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    Hi Julian, can you post Warren Cuccurullo´s Road Rage ?

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