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Sebastian Hardie were Australia's first symphonic rock band. They formed in Sydney in 1967 as Sebastian Hardie Blues Band but dropped the 'Blues Band' reference when they became pop-oriented. By 1973 they developed a more progressive rock style, and later performed as Windchase, but disbanded in 1977. An early member of Sebastian Hardie was Jon English (vocals, rhythm guitar), who starred as Judas Iscariot in the Australian version of the stage musical Jesus Christ Superstar in 1972, he subsequently had a solo career as a singer, actor and playwright. A later member, Mario Millo (lead guitar, mandolin, vocals) became a multi-award winner for his television and movie music.
Sebastian Hardie's other early members included GrahamFord (lead guitar), Peter Plavsic (bass guitar) and his brother Alex Plavsic (drums). After English and Ford had left, the Plavsic brothers were joined by Millo and Toivo Pilt (keyboards). With their addition, Sebastian Hardie developed extended progressive rock tracks to become a symphonic rock group before they released their definitive album Four Moments in 1975, which peaked at No. 13 on the National albums chart. They followed with a second album Windchase in 1976, but it had less chart success. Millo and Pilt formed the band, Windchase, to release Symphinity in 1977, it was a heavier jazz-fusion album but didn't have chart success and they disbanded.

As far as Progressive rock is concerned, most of the criticisms heard during the last thirty years insist on the show-off virtuoso side of it, with a lack of emotions, sort of a technical window for musicians with incredible egos. Thiswas actually one of the major arguments of the punk wave during the second half of the Seventies that had set as a goal (If they ever had one. ) to get rid of the "Dinosaurs" that YES, GENESIS, EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER and others had become. It would be completely dishonest to deny this superficial and over simplifying reasoning a small hint of truth, but SEBASTIAN HARDIE could be a good example of the contrary. At about the same time, four anonymous people from down under tried to show that our favourite style can go very well with a lyrical, melodical and accessible music. Recorded in 1975, "Four Moments" is like a whole, if not conceptual, at least musical. This is a marvellous symphonic Progressive rock opus that shows very elaborate themes.

 Op aanvraag van PETER. (ik ging ervan uit dat je dit ook wel wilde hebben. 


Bijna alles van mijn huidige New Age collectie staat op spotnet. Vele cd’s stonden er al op maar er was nog genoeg om aan te vullen.

Treur niet, ik heb weer genoeg New Age en andere genres gevonden. Ik zal dit eerst zelf beluisteren en dan spotten.

Er mogen verzoekjes gedaan worden. Als ik het kan vinden dan zal het op spotnet komen.

 “Dankbaarheid kan alleen voortkomen uit een opgewekt innerlijk leven en een zeker vermogen tot liefhebben” 

Kijk eens op http://www.binaries4all.nl en spot mee.

 “Het belangrijkste van de muziek staat niet in de noten” 

 U kunt mij een plezier doen door, na het beluisteren van de cd, feedback te geven op de muziek. Wellicht haalt u er iets uit wat een ander niet hoort. 

Prachtige muziek luister je alleen in kwaliteit, daarom spot ik in FLAC.

 Enjoy the feeling