If there was a time and a place when progressive rock was at it peak, it would probably have been in England from 1968 through 1972. Those were the years when bands like Pink Floyd, Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Yes sold millions of records and filled thousands of stadium seats.
Shortly before prog-rock’s demise, around 1971, an eccentric, classically-trained organist and flautist from the Netherlands named Thijs van Leer recorded this, his second album with a quartet he formed called Focus. Unlike their first album, which went largely unnoticed, Moving Waves was a huge hit for the band, propelled to #8 on the Billboard album chart behind a shortened version of a song called Hocus Pocus.
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