by The Moody Blues
This 1968 album is the second concept and progressive album, and the third album over all, of the first truly progressive band, The Moody Blues. The highly psychedelic album explores themes of life,
art, and science with a very existentialist point of view. Musically, the album borrows from many genres, including: rock, jazz, classical, and indian music. The albums talk of finding higher truth through humanity's art and science, and the human experience in general, mirrors stories of Buddhism. The wide use of Indian instruments, such as sitars and tanpuras, further conjure images of India and Buddhism, and makes the album have many uncanny parallels to the story of Siddhartha, almost making it a conceptual album about Siddhartha's journey to enlightenment. Another amazing thing about this album, is the plethora of instruments used in its production, which were all played by members of the band, not studio musicians or other out of band musicians. The instruments include bass, guitar, drums, mellotron, flute, oboe, sitar, cello, tanpura, and 25 other instruments. Another interesting fact about this album is that it starts with a chaotic poem about space travel, with the track "Departure," and that the second to last track is also spoken word, which explores the cosmos of the universe, be means of the visible light spectrum and the audible sound spectrum, and their mathematical perfectness.
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