Barclay James Harvest
 From softly focused pastoral passages at the end of the 60s to
more muscular rock-outs two decades later, Barclay James Harvest
were never a band to wallow in their own heritage.
Pompous enough to be labelled the "poor man's Moody
Blues" but sufficiently self-aware to call one of their songs
just that, the young BJH released four albums on Harvest before achieving
greater sales on Polydor.
As labelmates of Pink Floyd and Deep Purple at the
first peak of prog, they saw nothing pretentious about turning
up the Mellotron, co-opting a full orchestra, and singing feyly
of ladies named Galadriel and Ursula . . . or constructing
mournful elaborate epics like Song With No Meaning or Mockingbird.
|
