Shadowfax (1976) Song For My Brother - LOST 70s GEMS

A New Age and very heavy Jazzy, prog Rock band form the Windy City, Shadowfax's majestic covered album Watercourse Way is dripping in intricate and extremely tight arrangements. This beautiful but very hard hitting jazz fusion, the fusion in this case being with Prog rock. While Shape of You is a plaintive piano piece and the Turkish sounding folky title track are well structured and exquisitely played, the closer Song For My Brother is full of nifty moments from the stage setting chord progressions to the watery electric guitar, as clear a a clean water river like the one on the azure album cover. The guitar aches in a foreboding notes, the best is probably the crystal clear piano bridge that comes a few minutes in which is as delicate and immaculate a piano part I have ever heard and has a sprightly spirit to it as a returning moog drifts in playing the part of a horn before a string synth also joins it. The interplay between the neo-renaissance harpsichord and the lead guitar at the end is the cherry on top. Be warned it is a long mood piece and may not be everyone's cup of tea.