In 1975 the British prog band Camel recorded their third album The Snow Goose. The success of The White Rider suite ? based on Tolkien's book The Lord Of The Rings - which appeared on the previous album Mirage (1974), inspired the group to write more novel-based conceptual suites. They considered several novels that might qualify for the next album. For a time they settled on Siddhartha (1922) by Hermann Hesse; some songs were written before the idea was abandoned in favour of Paul Gallico's novella The Snow Goose (1941). The album's name, originally called The Snow Goose as well, was altered to Music Inspired By The Snow Goose to accommodate legal protests by Paul Gallico. As is often stated his protests were not motivated by his disapproval of smoking - Gallico was in fact a keen smoker - but simply on the grounds of copyright infringement. The album was originally due to feature lyrics based upon Paul Gallico's text, but due to his objections, an instrumental album was recorded instead. In celebration of Camel's return to the stage the album was re-recorded in May 2013 and released in November simply titled The Snow Goose. According to band leader Andy Latimer the new album is a tribute to former band mates Peter Bardens, Andy Ward and Doug Ferguson and remains steadfastly faithful to the original work including some additional written music as well. Camel embarked on a brief tour in 2013 and 2014, performing The Snow Goose for the first time since the Royal Albert Hall show in 1975. As with many concept albums other bands tried to make their own version of this strong conceptual piece of music. One of them is Magnetic Sound Machine, an Italian band formed in 2005 that take their influences from several musical styles. Apart from prog rock they also incorporate jazz, fusion and elements from post rock and electronic music. Their debut album Chromatic Tunes appeared in 2008 followed by Chances & Accidents two years later. After this they started to work on their version of Camel's masterpiece. In December 2012 they recorded the music composed by Latimer and Bardens live in a recording studio. They did what Camel didn't dare to do, namely adding spoken pa