Gryphon

At a time when fresh, quality releases in the prog folk rock realm are almost chronically missing, the new Gryphon album arrived right on cue, even though it took a whole forty-one years to get here.

At a time when new, quality releases in the prog folk rock world are almost chronically missing, the new Gryphon album arrived right on cue, even though it took a full forty-one years to get here.

A game of chess has never sounded as good as it does on the Gryphon masterpiece »Red Queen to Gryphon Three«, their finest achievement and a classic of minstrel-flavored progressive folk rock.

»Midnight Mushromps« was a true musical gem when it came to blending medieval-Renaissance romance with traditional British pastoral, groaning under the weight of ceremonial arrangements of the kind we most often hear these days in epic,…

"Gryphon" carried some ancient, traditional pieces into the second half of the 20th century and kneaded them into something new that will never go stale, so it keeps delivering plenty of good fun time after time.