Prog nerd alert! This is some seriously heavy shit; synth heavy and filled with fuzzy guitar leads, I can’t believe it’s taken me so long to share it with you. For all the kinda weak progressive rock that’s out there — all flute and jazz-influences — albums such as Waiters On The Dance highlight for us the finer aspects of the genre.
Julian Jay Savarin is a British science fiction writer, poet, musician and songwriter. He is best known as the author of Lemmus: A Time Odyssey, a sci-fi trilogy penned in the ’70s. The first book was called Waiters On The Dance, and it “tells the story of the Galactic organization and Dominions, which existed long before earth’s historic times. There are three primary, sometimes interwoven threads to the story, played against the backdrop of the mighty but allegedly benevolent G.O.D. One is the incredibly brilliant and ESP adept Alda, a woman of Serius who wants to rule the galaxy through behind-the-scenes efforts; the second is about her distant, evil relatives, the Kizeesh male line, eventual rulers of Hulio from the neighboring Cetus system, who also want to rule the galaxy after breaking with G.O.D. The third thread is played out from a skein about an experiment by G.O.D. to send an amalgam of humans from around the galaxy to the planet Terra under the leadership of Jael Adaamm. The pioneers are screened off from the rest of humanity. Terra subverts the humans, causing them to inexorably sink into meanness and war. This is caused by a vermoid groth (apparently the appendix) that appears in increasing numbers in infants born on Atlantis, the heart-land of the human pioneers on Terra. Meanness turns to ugliness and that to murder and war, until all the rest of Terra wages war on Atlantis, eventually destroying it. But Atlantis has two tricks up her sleeve, even in death…” (Wikipedia…yeesh!)
For a short time Savarin dabbled in music. His first band was called Julian’s Treatment, which recorded on album (A Time Before This) before breaking up. Julian recorded the followup to that album and titled it Waiters On The Dance under his own name.
The album features some very aggressive, guitar heavy rock with some cosmic elements and a ton of groovy organ parts, strings, Mellotron and more. Of course, the album is based on the science fiction story described above, so there’s an entire book behind the sounds and words on this record, not just a simple concept or story. The vocals are sung by Lady Jo Meek, who sang on the first Catapilla record (a rare Vertigo Swirlie!).
As the old story goes, science fiction plus prog rock equals amazing. See for yourself!
Julian Jay Savarin
Waiters On The Dance
Birth, 1971
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01. Child Of The Nights, Pts. 1 & 2
02. Stranger
03. The Death Of Aida
04. Dance Of The Golden Flamingoes
05. Cycle
06. Soldiers Of Time
