Snowballs (by Horizont - legendary Russian prog rock band)

This is my modest tribute to the legendary progressive rock band Horizont (aka Горизонт, Gorizont), formed in the USSR in the late 70s which is, in my opinion, one of the best prog music bands ever. I can still remember that night when I first heard the band (live) and was absolutely blown away by their fantastic music (written by the band leader Sergey Kornilov) and this particular piece “снежки“ or “snowballs“, which is a perfect example of symphonic prog. *** Their first album, “Summer in Town“, is a little gem of 70’s symphonic rock with strong classical tinges (Prokofiev comes to mind). It features carpets of keyboards, atmospheric voices (no vocals), harmonic melodies, soft guitars à la Steve Hackett, disquieting passages à la ELP plus mellotrons and flute galore. The more complex “Portrait of a Boy“ is an entirely different album, abandoning most of the sympho-prog roots of the first for straight RIO. As opposed to the rather lively &q