É nos grupos de Rock progressivo britânicos que vamos encontrar no final da década de 60, início da de 70, algum do melhor aproveitamento da introdução do violino na sonoridade Rock.
Alguns ficaram bem conhecidos como os Family, os Curved Air ou os King Crimson, outros nem por isso, como é a escolha para hoje, são os East of Eden do violinista Dave Arbus (é dele o famoso solo de violino no tema "Baba O'Riley", do álbum "Who's Next" dos The Who, de 1971).
Oriundos de Bristol, os East of Eden foram praticantes de um Rock progressista e experimental a que se juntava influências orientais. O site http://www.eastofedentheband.com/ caracteriza a formação inicial da seguinte maneira:
"The original incarnation of the band were never categorised in the general mainstream of 'progressive' rock which invariably relied on guitar and keyboard pyrotechnics. Instead their front line of electric violin. played in an almost Hendrix-like mode, saxophone bordering on free form jazz mixed with bluesy guitar, gave them a unique identity."
A variedade e complexidade da sua música era assim referida:
"Their utilisation of jazz in a much purer form than their contemporaries was the prime element which defined their music. Also use of eastern scales, reggae rhythms and influences of classical composers such as Bartok crossed musical boundaries years before the term 'World Music' was coined."
O primeiro LP, "Mercator Projected", surge em 1969, e é assim visto pela allmusic.com:
"East of Eden's debut LP is one of the hardest rocking albums to come out of the progressive rock movement, and maybe the best non-Rolling Stones album s issued by English Decca during all of the late 1960s. It's also one of the most daring debut albums of its period, less tightly focused than, say, King Crimson's Court of the Crimson King, but otherwise equally bold and maybe more challenging…..
The album finishes with the high energy 'In the Stable of the Sphinx, a blazing showcase for electric guitar, violin, tenor, and alto sax that's worth the price of admission by itself, and must have been amazing to hear on stage".
Para audição, precisamente o tema "In the Stable of the Sphinx".
East of Eden - In the Stable of the Sphinx
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