IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING

It is my favorite album of KC and I have to admit that the only one. I do not like the later works of them because it seems to me very academic, cold and dark. But not this one. Here I find a cluster of warm songs. Perhaps it is because I prefere the warm voice of Greg Lake. Yes, I like the ELP much more than the later KC. Or, perhaps the simple reason is that this one I heard as the first and every other one I compared with no success to this one. (The same case as with Abey road of Beatles). I find in this album the whole spectre of musical expressions: from a hard and agressive (21st...), through a very calm and peaceful (I talk...), through a deep and dark (epithap), through an experimental one (moon..), finally to a complex esthetic and arthistic experience in the last track.