Druid TOWARD THE SUN
(Orange Marble LP)

In the hot summer month of 1975 when Toward The Sun was released, Druid were a young UK band on a roll with the patronage of DJ Bob Harris and music paper the Melody Maker.

Druid's debut album occupies the kind of AOR space that some of the major Prog bands would turn to during the late 70s. Laced with acoustic guitars, 'flutes' and lush keyboards, neatly wrapped in a Symphonic Prog overcoat of more adventurous instrumental passages. In other words, Toward The Sun is a fairly generic example of mainstream Prog from the later 70s.

The songwriting is first class with some lovely tunes and lyrics which 'sound right'. There is a common theme spread throughout the album - dreams and dreaming: from the "long nights' dreams" of opener Voices to Shangri-La "there I'll find my dreams, and some day I'll return when the world has changed".

Toward The Sun is available as a limited edition of 750 individually numbered copies on yellow & orange marble vinyl and contains an insert.[info sheet from distr.]