Aragorn's short career lasted only a few months, just enough time to record an album that was initially released in a limited edition of fifty copies, until many years later it was rediscovered and reissued on CD. This Australian band was led by a talented classically trained musician named Oleg Dietrich, who in 1967 had begun composing a work called "The Suite", influenced by the book "The Lord of the Rings". Years later, he finished most of the composition and formed a band called Aragorn to record and officially release it. With a fully established lineup, they recorded "The Suite", a record that draws directly from the roots of British progressive rock with echoes of medieval folk and jazz. The work displays great intensity, with a sober and complex composition, featuring dense passages in a series of fluid, separate pieces that result in a hidden masterpiece of progressive rock.


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