Released in 1986, this is an extremely rare animal. It is as bizarre-sounding as it is old. Starting off like some menacing science fiction movie, it moves through sound corridors of time and space that you might have wished remained closed. The title song is a thing of beauty for sure, while still tinged with a bit of the beast, as it hints at a psychotic circus of sounds. Strange but still soothing. The epic third track brings it all together and makes the album whole. Bells and drums are prominent here in the long, drawn-out musical scenery that ends the first side.
While the second side is not up to the greatness of the first, it is not for lack of trying. It is chock-full of strange sounds. Only the bells and flutes that come and go seem familiar. You may feel like you are losing your mind. But don't worry, by the time you are in the middle of the last song, your mind will belong to you again and all will be as it was. All except for your ears, of course. Like a flood rerouting a river bed, that sound you heard may forever be ingrained in your ears' memory channels. Like it or not, it may be a sound you won't forget.
Don't say I didn't warn you.