Fall of Hyperion

by Robert John Godfrey

Fall of Hyperion cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: March 1974
  • Label: Charisma
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 26:53
  • Community rating: 3.76/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

After departing Barclay James Harvest, classical pianist and composer Robert John Godfrey envisioned this grandiose, fully orchestrated progressive rock suite. Heavily synthesizing formal classical structures with electric rock dynamics, the album laid the creative foundation for his subsequent, highly influential symphonic ensemble, The Enid.

Genres

Descriptors: symphonic, orchestral, piano, virtuosic, conceptual, genre-blending, melodic, ensemble, folk

Tracklist

  1. The Raven (8:46)
  2. Mountains (6:56)
  3. Water Song (5:57)
  4. End Of Side One (0:04)
  5. Isault (5:10)
  6. I: The Arrival Of The Phoenix
  7. II: Across The Abyss
  8. III: The Daemon
  9. IV: The Wanderer
  10. V: IHS
  11. VI: Tuba Mirum

Credits

  • Robert John Godfrey - primary artist, composed by, score, conductor, keyboards, directed by, music by
  • Neil Tetlow - bass
  • Face - cover [cover painting]
  • James Honeyman-Scott - guitar
  • Christopher Lewis - lyrics by, vocals
  • Nigel Morton - organ [hammond]
  • Ronnie McCrea - percussion
  • Tristan Fry - percussion

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