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| | New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock PA-PF |
 | | Their fourth album, ISHQ (it's pronounced, "ishk", not an acronym) continues along the same lines as Private Power, but is much more mature in its melding of recordings of traditional ethnic folk and spiritual songs with rock instruments. |
 | | Parsons later remixed the album for CD re-release, but showed very good taste by limiting this process to a couple of added solos and synthesizer textures, which fit seamlessly in with the original recordings, and the restoration of Orson Welles' Poe recitations, recorded during the album sessions but omitted from the original mix. |
 | | The album's songs deal with various aspects of women, but mainly in terms of male stereotypes and pop cliches, either as idealised objects of desire or unfaithful tormentresses of the fragile male ego. |
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