FAR AND FORGOT - FROM THE LOST LANDS

Don't let this one slip under the radar. Most of this is not disimilar to the album 'To wake the king' (by Secret Green), which isn't a bad thing, considering how good 'To wake the king' actually is. Being musically greedy, I wanted more though, and I certainly got it with the track 'The Disenchantment'. Richard Wagner taught me what silence can do in music, because it lets so much breathe. 'The Disenchantent will take you on a Classical/Soundtrack type of journey in a profound manner. It certainly puts the "Symphonic" in 'Symphonic Prog'! I always felt that the theory behind Lickerish's old band, the Enid, was to explore the border between Rock and Classical music and both 'To wake the king' and 'Far and forgot' get closer to the ideal than perhaps the Enid have ever done. Five stars? Absolutely. This is amazing music, and I only lucked into it because when the UK's Prog magazine stopped providing demo CD's I started going back over the the old demo discs that I had, right from the first one. As a result I found 'Secret Green' and ultimately two great albums.