I bought this when I was still at school, because I'd read somewhere that Jon Anderson played harp on it. But no shop stocked this record, so I had to order it. In those days, an order could take three or four weeks to arrive, and it might never come (in which case you got your deposit back). The copy I got (£5.39 from Carousel in Tonbridge, which I think was the shop better known as the Spinning Disc) was, I'm sure now, missing its inner sleeve. Because there are no credits, or even a tracklisting, on the cover. So I never knew if it really was Jon Anderson on harp on Side 2. But now Wikipedia reassures me.
It's ostensibly a soundtrack album, but unlike many soundtracks, it's not made up of short 'sketch' tracks. It has a coherence and a sense of development, like an album should. At the same time, it's more mellow and even than I remember most Vangelis albums being. I hardly ever listen to his solo stuff nowadays, but remember it from 20 plus years ago being a little melodramatic. You couldn't say that of this album, and I like it quite a lot.
 MusicBrainz entry for this album
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