The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony

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Better than these scattered Midrashic fragments does the Slavonic Book of Enoch (xxiv.-xxx.) disclose the secrets of Ma'ase Bereshit, which God Himself revealed to Enoch, though "not known even to the angels": The Upper and the Lower World. that is upfront a lot of time, though in some ways over the years my playing has matured and I'm not

Gentle Giant, Van Der Graaf Generator, King Crimson and maybe Greenslade did not or even cared less? orchestral arrangement of the previous thematic materials by the late Simon Jeffes, whose huge talent was wasted on the Sid Vicious atrocity My Way. The value of the cosmogony of Genesis lies in its monotheistic emphasis. Though the plural "Elohim," the words "let us make," and the view of man being "the image of God" reflect polytheistic and mythological conceptions of a previous stage, the stress is laid on the thought that one God made the all by His will, and made it "good." The Sabbath—originally not a part of the Babylonian epos—is the crowning glory of this cosmogony, notwithstanding the strong anthropomorphism of the concept that the Creator Himself rested. The attempt to establish a concordance between Genesis and geology seems to do an injustice to science and religion both. The ancient Hebrews had a very imperfect conception of the structure of the universe. Gen. i. was not written to be a scientific treatise. It was to impress and to express the twin-doctrine of God's creative omnipotence and of man's dignity as being destined on earth to be a creator himself.in places of (good and memorable) Barclay James Harvest (cf flouncy bouffant forgettable BJH). Plenty of variation and effective exploitation The album is a concept one, based on a fantasy tale by Woodroffe originally published in book form but repeated in the bulging booklet which accompanies this album. Woodroffe also created the many wonderful illustrations which appear therein. The story is set towards the end of the 24th century. By this time, man's efforts (which as we know are clearly well underway) to destroy his home planet have finally succeeded, and the race has dispersed to other planets of the solar system, the "Ten worlds". Greenslade contributes the 74 minutes of music as his second solo project, enlisting Phil Collins amongst others to help. features Dave's signature keys palette plus Tony Reeves on bass then yeah, it does sound a LOT like

Greenslade of course found a measure of fame with Colosseum, and subsequently with his eponymous band, although the latter never really made it. Once Greenslade (the band) had run its course and disbanded, Dave Greenslade decided to peruse a solo career. "The Penteteuch Of The Cosmogony" (don't ask me how to pronounce that!) finds him trading in his pianos and organs (he does however borrow a church organ!) for an impressive array of synthesisers, and some tubular bells. Footnote: The little hooded wizard had four perfectly good arms on the Greenslade debut album cover but only a paltry three here. Roger Dean, you are a one arm bandit. The story - and thus the artwork - within \\\\\\\'Pentateuch\\\\\\\' centres around the discovery of an abandoned spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter, and the project to decipher the ideograms in the pentateuch \\\\\\\'document\\\\\\\'. Most of the book is a retelling of the document, in much the same way as a modern translator might retell the contents of a Babylonian tablet or Egyptian papyrus scroll. as upfront as I used to be. Somebody sent me through the Net a pirate recording of a gig that we did There is however a semblance of concept status about the whole undertaking. The colonisation of America seems to be the gist but although the author's angle on this topic is clearly admonitory, his reasons are seldom expanded upon and ambivalent throughout

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It's all over the place, too intrusive, too clever, it's actually embarrassing. I can't believe now The story was retold without music in Woodroffe's 1987 book The Second Earth. This featured additional artwork and was rewritten with extended prose replacing the original verse form. The additional artwork is not always as closely linked to the story as the original selection. A Japanese edition was also published. As with any interpretive music, its success is often dependant on the amount of effort the listener is prepared to put in. Taken on its own you will likely find the music bland, boring and uninspired but take time to study and absorb the music and story together and you will be rewarded. It becomes transformed beyond a merely OK piece of nostalgic electronica to a deeper and ultimately more satisfying experience, though hardly in the same league as Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony! Dave Greenslade - ARP Explorer, ARP Omni, CAT synthesizer, organ, Crumar Stringman, clavinet, Kitten synthesizer, Korg vocoder, Mellotron, Minimoog, Polymoog, Prophet 5, Roland R5202, SDS Drum synthesizer, Sennheiser Vocoder, Tubular Bells, Vibraphone, Yamaha synthesizer, piano