From Genesis to Revelation
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Publication |
March 7, 1969 |
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admission |
August 1968 |
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| Label (s) |
Decca Records (UK); London Records (USA) |
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Format (s) |
CD, LP |
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Rock, pop |
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Title (number) |
13 |
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running time |
43:25 |
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Jonathan King |
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Studio (s) |
Regent Studios, London (England) |
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From Genesis to Revelation (English for: " From Genesis to Revelation ") is the debut album by the British rock band Genesis . It was released in March 1969 and is the group's only album with John Silver on drums. It documents the initial musical phase of the band. In contrast to the successor album Trespass , From Genesis to Revelation does not yet contain any characteristics of progressive rock ; it is pop music thatcan be assigned tothe late beat phase.
Emergence
At the time of its inception in 1967, Genesis consisted of Tony Banks , Peter Gabriel , Anthony Phillips , Mike Rutherford, and Chris Stewart . After finding their first producer in Jonathan King , they signed their first recording deal with King's record label Jonjo Music in August 1967 . King also gave the group the name Genesis (Eng. Origin, creation ).
By the fall of 1967, Genesis recorded several demo tapes , until they finally recorded the Banks / Gabriel composition The Silent Sun and the Phillips / Rutherford song That's Me in December 1967 at Regent Sound A Studio in Tottenham Court Road . Jonathan King was a producer of the recordings, musical director was Arthur Greenslade , of the recordings dominant strings - Arrangements added. On 2 February 1968, the first released single with two songs under the Decca - label .
On May 10, 1968, the second single followed with A Winter's Tale / One-Eyed Hound, both written by Banks / Gabriel. Despite positive reviews in Melody Maker and New Musical Express , both singles were not commercially successful.
Chris Stewart left Genesis after recording A Winter's Tale because, on the one hand, his parents wanted him not to drop out of school for the band and, on the other, because Jonathan King didn't want to continue with him. He was replaced by John Silver , who was a friend of the group.
In the new line-up, Genesis wrote new songs; they met in the parents' houses of John Silver and David Thomas, who played with Peter Gabriel in the school band The Spoken Word as early as 1965. They recorded more demo tapes with which they could convince Jonathan King to produce an album with them. The songs for this were recorded again in the Regent Studio within 10 days of the 1968 summer vacation. David Thomas sang in the background choir .
The recordings were dominated by Jonathan King; in particular, he discouraged the band from playing longer instrumental passages and solos, which could only prove to be the most distinctive elements of the music and the special strength of the band on the following albums. King also decided it would be a concept album.
After the recordings were completed, the individual pieces were again provided with string passages by the musical director Arthur Greenslade . But while the band still found this good with the two singles, the violins on the album songs seemed too intrusive to them, while the other instruments were literally pushed to the edge.
The album was released in March 1969 under the title From Genesis to Revelation, but without explicit mention of the band name, since at the time there was a US band that was already called Genesis. The name of the album led record stores to mistakenly classify the album as a religious music category . This led to the fact that the album went down completely with only about 600 copies sold.
On June 27, 1969, the single Where the Sour Turns to Sweet / In Hiding was released, but even this could not increase the sales of the album.
Unlike many other bands, Genesis fans do not consider this first LP to be a cult-like and sound-defining starting point for the band. Basically only the following album Trespass was rated as the first "real" Genesis record. On the fourth CD of the compilation Archive I - 1967–1975 , most of the songs on this album are in a "raw format" without string passages, in which the potential of Genesis can be guessed at rudimentary.
Track list
- Where the Sour Turns to Sweet (Tony Banks, Peter Gabriel) - 3:16
- In the Beginning (Anthony Phillips, Peter Gabriel) - 3:47
- Fireside Song (Tony Banks, Anthony Phillips, Mike Rutherford) - 4:20
- The Serpent (Tony Banks, Peter Gabriel) - 4:40
- Am I Very Wrong? (Tony Banks, Peter Gabriel) - 3:33
- In the Wilderness (Tony Banks, Peter Gabriel, Anthony Phillips, Mike Rutherford) - 3:33
- The Conqueror (Tony Banks, Peter Gabriel) - 3:42
- In Hiding (Anthony Phillips, Peter Gabriel) - 2:40
- One Day (Tony Banks, Peter Gabriel) - 3:22
- Window (Anthony Phillips, Mike Rutherford) - 3:35
- In Limbo (Tony Banks, Peter Gabriel, Anthony Phillips, Mike Rutherford, John Silver) - 3:32
- The Silent Sun (Tony Banks, Peter Gabriel) - 2:15
- A Place to Call My Own (Tony Banks, Peter Gabriel) - 2:00
This list corresponds to the first edition of the album. There were numerous new editions under different titles ( In the Beginning , Where the Sour Turns to Sweet , Rock Roots: Genesis , The Silent Sun , ... And the Word Was , The Genesis of Genesis , ...). It often also contained the A and B sides of the first two singles by Genesis, as well as various demo versions of other songs. These include, for example, A Winter's Tale , One Eyed Hound , Image Blown Out and She's So Beautiful . The last song formed the basis for the song The Serpent on the final album; however, it tells a completely different story.
Charts
Album: (US # 170)
Singles
- The Silent Sun / That's Me (February 2, 1968; incorrect date February 22, 1968 in various publications)
- A Winter's Tale / One-Eyed Hound (May 10, 1968)
- Where the Sour Turns to Sweet / In Hiding (June 27, 1969)
- In the Beginning / The Serpent (February 1974)
occupation
- Tony Banks : piano , organ , keyboard , guitar , vocals
- Peter Gabriel : vocals , flute , tambourine
- Anthony Phillips : guitar, vocals
- Mike Rutherford : electric bass , guitar, vocals
- John Silver : drums
- Chris Stewart : drums in Silent Sun.
such as
- Guest musician: David Thomas, vocals
- Producer : Jonathan King
- String - Arrangements : Arthur Greenslade
Web links
- Reviews of From Genesis to Revelation on the Babyblauen Seiten
- Discussion about the favorites of the album at the German Genesis Fanclub it