Massaging the connection that would yield such enchanted fruits on the wonderful Pieces Of Light the following year, comes this live recording from 1973 of a concert-cum-ritual from the Holy Cross, a Benedictine monastery sited on the west bank of the Hudson river. Tallying with the resident monks' mission to “deepen a sense of communion with God, nature and with others”, these soulful sacraments smoulder with pagan majesty before igniting in exotic indignation. Their ire is explicitly directed toward those who'd seek to obstruct the noble cause, Snyder's ARP seemingly signalling visitations of an alien pantheist court to pass judgement on temporal transgressions. The epic ‘Les Heros Sont Fatigues’ begins mournfully enough, siphoning eerie candied calls on the edge of an ornamental breeze, but hastily boils down its anti-war statement as scraps of Tricky Dicky's counterfeit quack turn vaporous, diffusing beneath billowing storms of screaming saxorcisms and laser beam fire, like Frank Wright shoeing horn deep inside a Throbbing G mix. Meanwhile, the sanguine ‘Bring On Tomorrow’ deposits William R Forstchen's Lost Regiment on another interplanetary tour, tensions between a cavalry's brassy clarion and burbling synth wobble predating Black Top's splendid mutant sci-fi shenanigans by some 40 years.