The LENS: A Word in Your Eye ---> factory sealed CD ... (feat. IQ members) .. Progressive Hard Rock

A fascinating new CD featuring re-recordings of early pre-IQ material, featuring Mike Holmes, Martin Orford and a guest appearance from Paul Cook. The Lens.
With their spacy, melodic and mainly instrumental music, they were hardly the darlings of the late '70’s music press which were championing the cause of punk rock and the New Wave at the time, but that didn’t bother The Lens. Not only were they producing some very innovative music, they were popular too, and gigs around the Southampton and Bournemouth areas were generally packed to the rafters. Almost 20 years after the demise of The Lens a compilation of their music is timely, for the two main writers, Mike Holmes and Martin Orford went on to form IQ, one of the most significant and enduring progressive rock acts of the late 20th century. The new CD “A Word In Your Eye” features new recordings which catalogue their earliest writing collaborations and provide an insight into an era when although their music flew in the face of fashion, they provided the missing link between the old and new schools of Progressive Rock.

Track Listings
1. Sleep Until You Wake (7:11)
2. Choosing a Farmer (part 1) (8:10)
3. On Stephen's Castle Down (2:27)
4. Shafts of Light (2:52)
5. Childhood's End (5:51)
6. Frost & Fire (6:27)
7. Of Tide & Change (8:56)
8. From the Sublime (6:38)
9. Choosing a Farmer (part 2) (5:32)
Total Time: 54:04
Line-up/Musicians
- Michael Holmes (of IQ) / electric, acoustic, & bass guitars, additional keyboards
- Martin Orford (of IQ) / vocals, keyboards, piano, flute
- Paul Cook (of IQ) / drums & percussion
GUEST MUSICIAN:
- Tony Wright / saxophone on 5