XLI. RILEY, Terry (1935- )
A Rainbow in Curved Air / Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band (1969)
(40:40)
I've always filed this under Classical, although I guess it could go either way.
In any case, this album was the soundtrack of my Paris years, although even all these years later, I cannot go a month without listening to both sides.
Rainbow is sunny, psychedelic music, while Poppy Nogood is dark, mysterious and surprising.
The back cover [sigh]:
And then all wars ended / Arms of every kind were outlawed and the masses gladly contributed them to giant foundries in which they were melted down and the metal poured back into the earth / The Pentagon was turned on its side and painted purple, yellow & green / All boundaries were dissolved / The slaughter of animals was forbidden / The whole of Lower Manhattan became a meadow in which unfortunates from the Bowery were allowed to live out their fantasies in the sunshine and were cured / People swam in the sparkling rivers under blue skies streaked only with incense pouring from the new factories / The energy from dismantled nuclear weapons provided free heat and light / World health was restored / An abundance of organic vegetables, fruits and grains was growing wild along the discarded highways / National flags were sewn together into brightly colored circus tents under which politicians were allowed to perform harmless theatrical games / The concept of work was forgotten
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