The Enid: Live At Loughborough Town Hall - 1980, CD

British group The Enid was formed around the founder/keyboardist Robert John Godfrey (Barclay James Harvest) and his fellow founder-members, guitarists Stephen Stewart and Francis Lickerish in 1973. Almost like a combination of classical and rock, the band combined vast orchestral movements, exclusively classical instrumentation, rigorous construction completely well-written and romantic rock music led by composer Robert John Godfrey. Mostly, the albums have some orchestrated sound, all created using the standard guitars, basses, keyboards, and drums. The Enid is probably the top of the symphonic tradition. The only band on the planet to have successfully fused rock-based music with the power, dynamics, and scale of symphonic classical music. They are the absolute masters of their art and their achievements set them apart from everything else which calls itself progressive.

 

TRACK LISTING

1. 665 The Great Bean

2. The Hall Of Mirrors

3. The Dreamer

4. Golden Earrings

5. Humouresque

6. The Courtage

7. Band Intro

8. Fand

9. Wild Thing