The second movement alludes to “Stonehenge” and “Tess”, that is her arrest at Stonehenge in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles. The symphony was composed in 1956-7, much of it while staying in the picturesque village of Ashmansworth in Hampshire, home of the composer, Gerald Finzi, and only 30 miles from Salisbury. It was first performed under the baton of Sir Malcolm Sargent on 2nd April 1958 only four months before Vaughan Williams death at the age of 86.
(not the same recording as above but nice cover)
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Posted 12-06-2013 at 19:59
One of a few songs by M4SK 22 featuring prehistoric sites, real and imagined, this example being the most blatant and symbolic.
Posted 16-06-2013 at 22:56
A classic album cover that graced a classic album.Ladies and gentlemen I give you-Thunder and Consolation from New Model Army.The Celtic artwork is taken from a stone in Scotland,I believe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJjj0hHBvDg
Posted 02-08-2013 at 00:12
Sorry to intrude again, but try this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n8TuFQyTSE Lots of stuff about stones and tools etc.
Hope they lose the ashes!?!
Posted 01-10-2013 at 17:11
Hollywood star Steve Martin has played the banjo for a track about the historic Mold Gold Cape. Teaming up with fellow Texan, singer-songwriter Edie Brickell, the song King of Boys features on their new album Love Has Come For You. The opening lyric to the song is ‘On a hill in Mold, North Wales’, with several other references to Mold made in the remainder of the track.
The full album from Steve Martin and Edie Brickell is available to listen to here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aAy6YPCe-4 Click on King of Boys on the video to listen to track 9
Posted 06-11-2013 at 00:37
Again nothing to do with Stones, but sentiment is superb.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaLY2qIonZg Saw him about 2 weeks ago and what a night!
Posted 18-01-2014 at 22:52
Who remembers this?
Space for Man and the Case of the Ancient Astronauts by Peter Howell and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, from the tv programme The Astronauts [any idea what this was?] and released on the LP BBC Space Themes.
Posted 18-01-2014 at 22:54
I've found the programme the above music came from - The Case of the Ancient Astronauts BBC Horizon PBS NOVA 1977 examining Von Daniken and other theories of ancient alien encounters. Subjects include the Egyptian Pyramids, Maya glyphs, the Easter Island Heads, the Nazca Lines, and more.
The Case of the Ancient Astronauts BBC Horizon PBS NOVA 1977
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Posted 21-01-2014 at 18:27
Some interesting cover art here:
Megalithic Symphony is the debut studio album by American electronic rock band Awolnation, released on March 15, 2011 through Red Bull Records. Megalithic Symphony has since peaked at number 84 on the United States Billboard 200 and at number 57 on the Austrian Albums Chart.
Posted 21-01-2014 at 18:43
Going back to Pete's post recommending Roy Harper, I found Roy writes this in his blog:
V. Gordon Childe may have been politically pigeonholed to the right of centre as an historian, but his learning and interpretations have always been an important source of historical opinion for me. In his very important little book, written in the year I was born and entitled ‘What Happened In History’ he says, quote, ‘On the one hand, the body of Classical theory and Hellenistic technology was preserved in a state of suspended animation at Byzantium and Alexandria in the sterilising atmosphere of a theocratic state. It began to revive in the more tolerant atmosphere of Sassanian Iran (The University of Jundishapur 530-580), and then under the Khalifs of Baghdad (750-900), when the temporal conquests of Islam, realising again the unity of a large area of the inhabited world, re-created an era of peace and prosperity.
Before the old internal contradictions had destroyed the prosperity and disrupted the polity of the Arab world, before ‘the establishment of the Orthodox Faith in about 1106 sealed forever the fate of independent research in Islam’, the bloodstream of the old body, enriched with new experiences digested by the Arabs, was being transfused into a new vessel in Europe through the Moorish provinces of Spain and Sicily.
Posted 23-01-2014 at 00:19
A just about relevant title gives an excuse to introduce you to probably the second greatest band ever in the history of the world:
Posted 27-01-2014 at 10:27
Overtures from the British Isles. Austin: The Sea Venturers; Cowen: The Butterfly’s Ball; Gardiner: Overture to a Comedy; Coleridge-Taylor: The Song of Hiawatha; Bantock: The Frogs; Sullivan: Macbeth; Mackenzie: The Little Minister; Stanford: Oedipus tyrannus – BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Rumon Gamba
Rumon Gamba and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales present a collection of rarely heard overtures from the British Isles.
Only really relevant for the cover which is an overprocessed horror of an image but eye catching for a cover:
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Posted 02-02-2014 at 22:52
Holden - The Inheritors
Unless I'm very much mistaken this album cover is a boulder complete with Rock Art
Clocking in at over 75 minutes, The Inheritors is an exhausting, complex and disorientating listen, but one that will stay with you. Once upon a time, Holden used to bridge the gap between bedroom and club, but now the most suitable location to take in his music would be in the middle of the woods, a windswept moor or a stone circle. It's the boldest of sonic statements. The title is borrowed from William Golding's 1963 novel about Neanderthal man...
Posted 04-02-2014 at 00:06
You may be suprised (or not) to hear that bombastic comedy legend Matt Berry has recorded a prog rock album. I detect a certain amount of tounge in cheek pompery going on here.
Matt Berry - Solstice from the Kill the Wolf Album
'Album centrepiece, 'Solstice', evokes the shortening of the days through wheezing harmonium, choral chant and dueling Moogs, before finishing off with a guitar solo that can only be described as 'bitchin'', bringing to mind Amon Duul II jamming with John Barleycorn-era Traffic in a stone circle illuminated by the light from bonfires*.'
OFF-Line
Posted 07-06-2013 at 18:20 
