Jade Warrior-Jade Warrior (1971)

Jade Warrior was a band that differed stylistically from everything else in the early 1970s. Their style, a clever combination of blues and folk, pastoral sounds, ambient music, and world music, quickly made them one of the cult bands of British progressive rock. Although they evolved with each album, they never lost their original identity, preserving their ambient passages with rock elements. In their debut release, Jade Warrior subtly approached British folk, through the use of flute, and Latin rock, through their percussion driven by bongos and other percussion instruments. Tracks like "Masai Morning" showcase that characteristic Eastern facet of Jade Warrior, with a rich combination of flutes, bongos, Eastern elements, and a bluesy guitar. Other tracks such as the dark ballad "Windweaver", the fierce "A Prenormal Day At Brighton", the minimalist bluesy "Petunia" and "Telephone Girl", together with the semi-progressive ambient tracks with large doses of ethnic creativity "Dragonfly: Metamorphosis/Dance Of The Sun Spirit/Death" and "Sundial Song", are one of the original proposals of this legendary British pseudo-progressive band.