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So You kind ofYouLOVEThe early worksofThe Classic Symphonic Prog bands but wish they hadA bit more hair On their chest and weren't afraidTo makeA bit more noise? Then German band Twenty Sixty-Six and Then and their English language debut album ` Reflections On The FutureFrom 1972 might be just whatYou 're afterA Mellotron and Hammond-dominated rocker that incorporates tracesof early Genesis andVAN DER GRAAF GENERATORTo their crossover of late Sixties/early Seventies rockSounds , plusA touchof Beggars' Opera and Nektar with tracesofPsychedelic otherSpace Rock explorations also worked into their punchy fuzzy tunes.
`At my Home ' is ATo keyboards throughout), Dieter Bauer's mud-thick bass, Konstatin Bommarius's thrashing drums andA confident, raucous vocalFrom Geff Harrison (who is actually English, and would later be involved with other German prog-related groups such as Tritonus andKING pingmeh). It's A reliable and addictive opener that ATOMIC ROOSTERDEEP PURPLE fans are sureToLOVE , butThe best is yetTo come!

`Autumn' holds A dreamy introduction of electric piano tiptoes and Mellotron wisps that rise into grand symphonic veils over humming Hammond organ. It kicks To LIFEof please and revealsAHEAVY symphonic piece fullof frantic little bursts, and listenToThe way Harrison emulates Peter Gabriel's raspy croon in The final minutes! Retaining A trace ofTo its fantastical lyric, `Butterking' constantly bombardsThe listener with booming Mellotron blasts, instantly remindingofTheHEAVIER momentsof VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR , and there's plentyof lengthy passagesof runaway piano soloing, sillier vocal spots that again invoke Peter Gabriel and frantic organ pomp and whimsy backed by boisterous rumblesof drumsTo reminderof `Trespass' from Genesis.

The flip-side's almost seventeen minute title track ` Reflections On The Future ' is mostly AA throat shredding lead vocal andLong boutsof histrionic guitar wailing, but it eventually drifts into ambling deep-space freeform sonic explorations ala earlyPINK Floyd or Nektar's `JourneyToThe Center ofThe Eye' debut. Finally, drenched in scratchy Mellotron and glorious piano, short closer `How do You Feel' both vocally and musically reminds ofThe statelyVAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR and Genesis moments with its murky regal dignity, instantly callingToMind both Peter Hammill's overwrought drama and Peter Gabriel's wounded melancholic wail, andThe chorus could have easily fitOn TheFirst few Genesis albums.

Despite additional recordings To what ended up OnThelp (someofThe Bonus tracks here behind atA strong ELP/The Nice/Triumvirate-like bombastic dexterity), Theband would sadly split up mere months after its release, leaving behind only this first-rate work that's in desperate needof some related extra attention! if The above described mix of Sixties/Seventies SoundsSounds enticing, then there's no higher recommendation than `Reflections On The Future ', somethingofA lost classicFromThe vintage prog period. FIVE Stars. (Aussie Byrd Brothers/progarchives.com)


Geff Harrison - vocals
Gerhard Mrozeck - Guitar
Steve Robinson - keyboards
Veit Marvos - keyboards
Dieter Bauer - Bass 
Konstantin Bommarius - drums