Morgan
The Sleeper Wakes

Fire in the Head
The Sleeper Wakes
The Right
What is — is what

All music by Morgan Fisher
All lyrics by Tim Staffell.

SJPCD049 Available in all good record stores, or by mail order from Angel Air Records

Morgan were:
Morgan Fisher Keyboards
Tim Staffell Vocals, Libretti
Bob Sapsed Fretless Electric Bass
Mo Bacon Drums, Percussion

Recorded in RCA Studios, Rome, February 1973.
Produced by Morgan Fisher and Gianni Grandis
Musical Assistant: Rodolfo "Foffo" Bianchi
Recording Engineer: Rodolfo Grappo
Assistant Engineer: Paolo Venditti
Mixed at Marquee Studiois, London April 1973
Engineer: Will Roper

Remastered at SRT, Cambridge, England during July 1999 by Nick Watson.
Licenced exclusively from Bacon Publishing Empire Ltd.

Half Moon Bay says... Look, I like this sort of stuff. OK?

Well, I used to have (and still have rolled-up in the loft — or attic) a couple of Roger Dean posters. Now these were posters of the sleeves of albums I used to stare at intensely as 'Close to the Edge' and others invaded my teenage senses through the ever-present headphones way back then...

And, since the advent of this wonderful medium known as CD, I have added a couple of ELP and Yes classics to the growing and ever disparate collection.

I suppose there are tinges of Genesis in the Morgan stuff here displayed. It is all dominated, you'll be surprised to hear, by Morgan Fishers very accomplished playing. There is a sense of fun that manages to come through, reflecting the personalities involved and thus thumbing a nose at the popular image of 'prog rock' and the prog rockers.

But then Tim Staffells lyrics and his delivery of them seem to make Andersons meanderings just that.

Confusingly, this is the second Morgan album recorded in the seventies but the first released by Angel Air. I guess you do have to have an ear and a sympathy for this kind of music, but I have been pleasantly surprised by this record. Not the first time that Angel Air have done that to me, and hopefully it won't be the last.

Review Date: May 2001

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