Does anyone remember this song ?

Circus Maximus was a United States band in the late 1960s, who combined influences from folk music, rock, and jazz into a form of psychedelic rock. The band was formed in 1967 by jazzist Bob Bruno and Jerry Jeff Walker. Bruno’s song “Wind”, from their eponymous first album, became a minor hit in the United States, particularly through airplay on “progressive” FM radio stations.

In late December 1967, they performed in an unusual pair of “Electric Christmas” concerts together with the New York Pro Musica, an ensemble devoted to performing early music. The 80-minute performance in New York City (rehearsed in the nightclub Electric Circus where Circus Maximus were in residence much of that month, but performed at Carnegie Hall) included a light show by Anthony Martin and electronic music by Morton Subotnick; the groups performed both together and separately. The material performed together included a reworking of 14th-century composer Guillaume de Machaut’s “La douce dame jolie” as an English-language song “Sweet Lovely Lady” and a Bruno original “Chess Game” that, unbeknownst to Bruno himself but noted by John White, director of the Pro Musica, strongly echoed the “Romanesca”, a piece first written down in 16th-century Spanish lute books.

The concert was not a critical success. Donal Henahan, writing in the New York Times, said that it “fell somewhat short of being the total-environmental trip that was promised… the night summed up most of the esthetic ideas now in the air: incongruity, simultaneity, games theory, the put-on, the parody, the Trip… and the effort to create a ‘Total Environment’ in which all the senses can come into play.” Henahan opined that the concert’s commercial success showed a break-down in the separation of classical and popular audiences.

Bruno’s interest in jazz apparently diverged from Walker’s interest in folk music, and by July 1968, the band had broken up and Walker was appearing at the Bitter End in Greenwich Village, sharing a bill with Joni Mitchell.

Robert Shelton included the Circus Maximus album Neverland Revisited in a November 1968 list selected to represent “the breadth… of today’s rock”.

The information about Circus Maximus was obtained from Wikipedia.

The Wind
By Circus Maximus

You say that once knew for sure
But now you’re walkin’ into shore to wonder

The more you learn the less you know
The more you move, the more you go to nowhere

You ask a bird as she flies by
Just where’s she’s at?
And she says: “Where the wind blows”

(You) Ask her: By that, what she means?
She Says : “She Doesn’t Know. . . ”
But as she flew away, she seemed to say . . .
. . . The Wind Is . . .

. . . Love . . . it’s the wind
The wind is my love
Who knows the wind?
Where blows my love?
The wind is my love.

You say you stagger to your room
(To) Sleep by day and plot by moon, your conscience plight

(You) Pack your dreams, you’ll move away
Decide to eat and live by day and leave(s) the night

(The) City sun blinks in your eyes
You shade your face and realize, a lonely crowd

And then at once you feel (this) a smile
The ice warm air moves by,

She says the breeze provokes her sigh . . .

. . . The Wind Is . . .

. . . Love . . . it’s the wind
The wind is my love
Who knows the wind?
Where blows my love?
The wind is my love.

You say you found another Spring,
Another joy, A human Thing, called Lovers

You play your roles of comedy
Refreshing well the tragedy you’re living

‘Cause love was sure or so you say
But Like the wind, Love blew away
(But) and as she left she seemed to say . . .

. . . The Wind Is . . .

. . . Love . . . it’s the wind
The wind is my love
Who knows the wind?
Where blows my love?
The wind is my love.

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