Original released on LP A&M SP 3624
(US, 1974)
In a Curved Airish manner, Esperanto were truly good but there's no Sonja Kristina galloping with sexy ways and tales of masturbation, ghosts and queens. Musically they are thrilling with speddy violins and waltzing cellos yet the male vocals are only interesting (Keith Christmas is unconvincingly melancholic in "Castle") and Brigette Du Doit's wordless voice should be more explored on other tracks or used as backing vocals. The high points are the instrumental opener "The Journey" on amazing ten minutes of hard chamber european rock; "The Duel", a lovely madness with the charming female voice singing "sorry, sorry" and the stupendous "The Prisioner" adding the most prodigious violin theme of the album. "The Cloister" is quite funny with frantic prog-rock mixed with gregorian chants; by the other side, "The Decision" is a little pedestrian. The closer "Danse Macabre" (a Saint-Saens cover and the title-track) is boisterous but brilliant reminding Darryl Way's Wolf, the later project of Curved Air's fiddler. (in RateYourMusic)
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