THE SPIRIT OF REVELATION

US band HEYOKA was mainly active in the '70s, although their career expanded sometime into the '80s before they called it a day. While they were a popular live act back in the day they never released an album while active, although quite a few singles were released, from what I understand. "The Spirit of Revelation" is a collection of materials the band recorded at the tail end of the '70s and in the early '80s, and was released through the US label ShroomAngel Records in 2012.

Heyoka produced some compelling material back in the day, and especially the material they recorded in the '70s comes across as both high-quality and compelling. A fairly equal blend of British progressive rock in the style of Jethro Tull and southern rock, with liberal amounts of Kansas flavoring may be an appropriate summary of the main contents, harder edged vintage progressive rock with a firm mainstream orientation and folk music inspired details a more generic description that might be used. And merits a check by those who know or suspect that this is music that may appeal to them.