Silent Dance

Nigel Mazlyn Jones produced it. Secondary summaries of AllMusic and Discogs, both blocked to us, say recording began at his Isle of Light studio in Cornwall, was meant to take three weeks and stretched to about five months. The line-up was Sandy Leigh on lead vocals, Glass on guitar, Elton on violin and keyboards, Mark Hawkins on bass and Martin Wright on drums, with Margaret Phillips guesting on Fender Rhodes. Glass said we never had the money to go and record an album anyway. Mazlyn Jones later sent Glass some of the tapes after a clear-out; the master for "Cheyenne" did not survive. Steven Wilson names "Earthsong" and "Cheyenne" among the band's best songs.

Geoff Feakes of DPRP gave the 2007 Definitive Edition 8.5 out of 10, saying that Leigh's voice is as close to Jon Anderson's as you can possibly get; that edition is a two-CD set with a bonus disc including the 1983 BBC session. Velvet Thunder called the record a minor masterpiece of relatively early neo-prog. The 2025 Remaster, issued on November 21, 2025 on Clann Records, runs 1:03:16 with three Wilson remixes as bonus tracks, of "Earthsong", "Return of Spring" and "Find Yourself", first heard on Prophecy; the band site says Glass was not fully satisfied with the 1984 sound and remixed the album himself. Our upload is titled Silent Dance Remaster, so it is probably the 2025 remaster, which we have not confirmed.