Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Album)
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Island Records , Manticore Records (UK) Atlantic Records (US) |
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6th |
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41:13 |
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Greg Lake |
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer is the debut album by British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer , which was released in 1970. The album cover features a fluttering white bird and human ear in the lower left corner.
On the first album of the newly formed supergroup , the influences that Emerson, Lake & Palmer brought with them become clear in the mixture of instrumental and vocal pieces. Since, contrary to the usual rock music convention, there is no guitarist, the rhythm section of Greg Lake on electric bass and Carl Palmer on drums mostly focuses on Keith Emerson's keyboard play. Here meet Hammond organ - riffs and classical adaptations in the tradition of previous band The Nice on synthesizer and piano solos in the extended harmonies of jazz rooted.
The album is not a uniform compositional achievement by the entire band; The majority of the album consists of adaptations of classical music pieces and solo pieces by the individual band members, which are often enhanced by instrumental parts. Lucky Man and Take a Pebble , the latter with extensive jazz improvisations in the middle section, are based on Greg Lake's acoustic ballads that precede those he was to contribute on later albums. In Carl Palmer's solo piece Tank , the latter brings his virtuoso skills on the drums to the ear with a band accompaniment.
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The Barbarian
The composition was ascribed to Emerson, Lake & Palmer on the first pressings, although The Barbarian was actually an arrangement of Béla Bartók's piano piece Allegro barbaro from 1911. The musicologist Edward Macan states in his 2006 book about ELP's work Endless Enigma that Bartók's widow contacted the band shortly after the album was released and arranged for the authorship to be corrected.
Take a pebble
Greg Lake Take a Pebble is an arrangement by the entire band, the main parts of which are a jazz arrangement by keyboardist Keith Emerson, the middle part a folk guitar work by Lake with water-like percussion effects and a little clap and whistle by Carl Palmer. The ending returns to Emerson's jazz arrangement, which begins with a modal-based improvisation over the primary ostinato .
Knife Edge
Knife Edge is based on the first movement of Leoš Janáček's Sinfonietta op.60 from 1926, with an instrumental middle section that contains an extended quotation from the Allemande of Johann Sebastian Bach's first French suite in D minor, BWV 812 , but instead of one Clavichord or piano being played on an organ .
The Three Fates
The Three Fates is a three-part pseudo-suite, written and performed mostly by Emerson. It consists of three sentences, one for each of the three sisters in Greek mythology known as the Three Gods of Fate or Moiren : Clotho , Lachesis and Atropos . The total length is a little less than eight minutes. The movement Clotho was recorded at the Royal Festival Hall , London, with Emerson playing the venue's mighty pipe organ. The following Lachesis is a piano solo of about 2 minutes and 45 seconds. It shows baroque and jazz influences and ends in large, lively arpeggios . Atropos begins with a brief echo of the pipe organ from the first movement, followed by Emerson with a jazz vamp on the piano in 7/8 time, accompanied by Carl Palmer's drums. An improvisation is layered on top of this, which ultimately turns into a polymetrically played, repeated sequence in 4/4 time. The final chords are closed by the sound of a muffled explosion.
tank
Tank was composed as Carl Palmer's solo part with Emerson. In the first section, Emerson plays the clavinet and piano, Lake on bass and Palmer on drums. The middle section is a drum solo. The last section is dominated by Emerson on the Clavinet and Moog synthesizers .
Lucky Man
At the age of 12, Greg Lake wrote the folk-rock ballad Lucky Man for acoustic guitar. Emerson concludes the piece with a remarkable solo on the Moog synthesizer with extensive portamento . Although no quadraphonic recordings of this album have yet been released, Lucky Man was recorded on the DVD-Audio 5.1 surround version of Brain Salad Surgery (Rhino # R9 75980, 2000).
Track list
- The Barbarian (based on the Allegro barbaro by Béla Bartók , arr.Emerson, Lake & Palmer) - 4:27
- Take a Pebble (Lake) - 12:32
- Knife-Edge ( Leoš Janáček & JS Bach , arr.Emerson, Lake & Fraser) - 5:04
- The Three Fates (Emerson) - 7:46
- Tank (Emerson & Palmer) - 6:49
- Lucky Man (Lake) - 4:36
Web links
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer at Allmusic (English)
- Reviews of Emerson, Lake & Palmer on the Baby Blue Pages
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Edward Macan: Endless Enigma: A Musical Biography of Emerson, Lake and Palmer . Open Court, Chicago 2006, ISBN 978-0-8126-9596-0 , pp. 253 (English).
- ^ A b Steve Millward: Different Tracks: Music and Politics in 1970 . Troubador, 2014, ISBN 978-1-78306-476-2 , p. 166 (English).
- ^ Will Romano, Mountains Come Out of the Sky: The Illustrated History of Prog Rock . Backbeat, Milwaukee 2010, ISBN 978-1-61713-375-6 , pp. 97-98 (English).