OCEANS OF CHANGE
I just wanted to say thank you for the feature on Oceans Of Slumber in Prog 113. I think that the eponymous new album is their best yet, building upon and developing further what they began with the previous two releases. And that voice! There is nothing quite like it in progressive rock, or any other musical genre come to that.
Cammie Gilbert is a remarkable woman. Elsewhere in the magazine you lament the lack of female prog artists, so Cammie’s emergence into the limelight is to be welcomed in more than one respect. Although it has always been obvious that there is a deeply personal aspect to her song lyrics, I must say that, until I read this article, I hadn’t quite realised the true extent of it. To battle and speak out against the racial abuses and injustices that still exist in this world, I think takes courage and character. It lends her lyrical expression of these iniquities an even greater poignancy, to know that they derive from personal experience. I’d like to think that maybe one day the wider world, and not just us proggers, will come to appreciate an amazing talent.