#circulus

Release: 2005

I love this song.

From left-->right, top-->bottom: Gentle Giant: Recorders sound better in groups, anyways. Derek Shulman, Ray Shulman, Kerry Minnear, and Gary Green all playing on "Advent of Panurge". Gentle Giant: Too awesome for just one gif. Jethro Tull: Andrew Giddings and Martin Barre on "blockflute and small blockflute" for "Mother Goose." Maxophone: Just your average Italian rock-n-roll band playing totally normal rock-n-roll instruments. The Move: Perhaps more proto- than prog, but Roy Wood (shown here double-fisting it) obviously moved on to other progressive pastures. Premiata Forneria Marconi: I just want to find someone someday who looks at me the way Franz Di Cioccio looks at Patrick Djivas while he's playing the recorder on "Dolcissima Maria". Wobbler: Hunched over their recorders on "From Silence to Somewhere". Title track on my favorite album of 2017. Circulus: Will Summers with a bass recorder in the "My Body is Made of Sunlight" music video. I made this gif a loop, just for fun. Gryphon: Not a gif, I know, but I couldn't find any gif-able videos of the famously virtuosic Richard Harvey playing with Gryphon, so here's a photo of him playing a tenor recorder. Gryphon is the quintessential recorder-prog band, of course. Gryphon: Hard to find modern-day videos of the band that show recorder player Keith Thompson clearly, too. Brian Gulland (playing bassoon here) always has the best outfits.

dedicated

#kreisverkehr #circulus #fraktaldesign #fraktal #frax (hier: Hanover, Germany)

“Circulus”, Lynn Davis Photography. Yazd, Isfahan, Iran, 2001.