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Posted: April 08 2005 at 20:23

Earth and Fire - Song of the Marching Children

Is this the best female led progressive rock album
made?
Overshadowing anything Annie Haslam, Sandy
Denny or Grace Slick ever did, what do you think?
Please note the date of this release when
comparing what was and what is?
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Posted: April 08 2005 at 20:27

No it's not

Try Catapilla led by Anna meek

Affinity led by Linda Hoyle

Both early '70's

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Posted: April 08 2005 at 20:29

Frumpy & Atlantis led by Inga Ruumf

Sure i've started the topic of prog ladies a month or so ago!

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Posted: April 08 2005 at 20:44

thanks, I am familiar with Catapilla and Affinity, will
have to journey into the dungeon for some old Inga
vinyl to spin on the Thorens.

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Posted: April 08 2005 at 21:08

Curved Air. Excellent female vocals from Sonya

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Posted: April 08 2005 at 21:47

any comments from the Earth and Fire groupies, i
saw them in 1975-76 in Rotterdam and they were
excellent! I think the back up band was Pantheon.

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Posted: April 09 2005 at 01:46

DallasBryan wrote:

any comments from the Earth and Fire groupies, i
saw them in 1973-74 in Rotterdam and they were
excellent! I think the back up band was Pantheon.

Hi - I have never seen them perform and had not heard of them until introduced to their music about 3 years ago by a Dutch friend of mine. Lets say I think they are great and a highly underated group. Definitely worthy of a place in the prog archives especially with 'Song of the Marching Children'. I know they had two female lead singers over their period of existence. I can not remember their names off hand, but they were really good and certainly added to the appeal of the group and it's music.

It is nice to see them in the forum as a topic of discussion

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Posted: April 09 2005 at 01:50

PS: As much as I think they were great vocalists, the Earth & Fire girls come just below Grace Slick. GS was the best during that period....

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Posted: April 09 2005 at 06:36

DallasBryan wrote:

thanks, I am familiar with Catapilla and Affinity, will
have to journey into the dungeon for some old Inga
vinyl to spin on the Thorens.

Which Thorens bryan?

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Posted: April 09 2005 at 06:42

DallasBryan wrote:

any comments from the Earth and Fire groupies, i
saw them in 1973-74 in Rotterdam and they were
excellent! I think the back up band was Pantheon.

The Debut is great,love the mellotron in places.

Earth And Fire

http://ftp.castel.nl/~wemmg01/ef-disco.htm

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Posted: April 09 2005 at 11:13

Which Thorens bryan?

the model is the Prestige, I only have one tonearm
on it. It got dropped when moving and one got
damaged, so I removed it. It is about 20 years old
and a collectors item I would think.

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Posted: April 09 2005 at 13:04

DallasBryan wrote:

Which Thorens bryan?

the model is the Prestige, I only have one tonearm
on it. It got dropped when moving and one got
damaged, so I removed it. It is about 20 years old
and a collectors item I would think.

So how did you manage to buy that Bryan?

http://www.vinylengine.com/phpBB2/album_page.php?pic_id=1352

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Posted: April 09 2005 at 13:35

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Posted: April 09 2005 at 13:38

DallasBryan wrote:

Is this the best female led progressive rock album
made?

Don't know about that one, since I haven't heard it, but for great female led prog rock, you should try the Japanese trio, Ars Nova, quite in the vein of ELP and other symphonic prog bands, but the emphasis is on the wonderful keyboard work.

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Posted: April 10 2005 at 05:56

I like very much guitarwork on Atlantis and To The World Of The Future albums. Great Gilmourish soloing.

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Posted: May 13 2005 at 20:04

any fans of Renaissance, Frumpy or Jefferson
Starship ever tried their Dutch equals classic, Song
of the Marching Children?

you British definitely miss the point and go for the
technicality, relax I have a job to do!

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Posted: May 13 2005 at 21:34

Hiwatter wrote:

I like very much guitarwork on Atlantis and To The World Of The Future albums. Great Gilmourish soloing.

Yes ,those 2 are excellent indeed. The first side of 'Gate to infinity' is stunning too.side 2 they started to move towards their pop faze.

I saw them warm up for Focus and.....well I liked E&F better.

The latter singer was/is Jerney Kaagman.

Lovely voice

Brilliant band

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Posted: May 14 2005 at 10:59

outside the somewhat naive(not BAD at all) lyrics
Jerney had a GREAT voice, maybe the best in all of
progdom!

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Posted: May 14 2005 at 12:24

DallasBryan wrote:

outside the somewhat naive(not BAD at all) lyrics
Jerney had a GREAT voice, maybe the best in all of
progdom!

Right on.

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your hair is dancing'.

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Posted: February 21 2006 at 13:42

I really like Song Of The Marching Children and Atlantis. For me they are the true Earth & Fire classic albums. Personally I prefer Atlantis though. One of the best prog albums I ever heard.