In a glass house

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In a glass house
Gentle Giant studio album

Publication
(s)

1973

admission

July 1973

Label (s) Vertigo Records

Title (number)

6th

running time

38:08

occupation

production

Gentle giant

Studio (s)

Advision Studios, London

chronology
Octopus
(1972)
In a glass house The Power and the Glory
(1974)

In a Glass House is the fifth studio album by the British progressive rock band Gentle Giant . It was released on Vertigo Records in 1973 .

Creation and publication

The third Shulman brother, Phil , left Gentle Giant for Octopus to return to work as a teacher. In a Glass House was admitted to London Advision Studios in July 1973 without replacing him . It was supposed to be a concept album based on the proverb "If you sit in a glass house, you shouldn't throw stones".

Gentle Giants American label Columbia Records did not want to release the album in the USA because it did not expect any financial success from it. As a result, the album was only available as an import there until the 1990s. Terrapin Trucking, Kerry Minnears Alucard Music and Derek Shulmans DRT Entertainment released various new CD releases from In a Glass House from 1992 onwards , some of them remastered from the original tapes or with bonus tracks that consisted of live recordings.

Track list

page 1

  1. The Runaway - 7:16
  2. To Inmate's Lullaby - 4:40
  3. Way of Life - 8:04

Page 2

  1. Experience - 7:50
  2. A Reunion - 2:12
  3. In a Glass House - 8:09

Bonus title

  1. The Runaway / Experience (Live on September 23, 1976 in the Philipshalle Düsseldorf ) - 10:01 am
  2. In a Glass House (Live on April 5, 1974 in the Münsterlandhalle Münster ) - 9:49

style

Gentle Giant continue their characteristic style as a quintet with crooked bars, tempo changes, percussion effects, rich instrumentation, polyphonic singing and counterpoints . New to In a Glass House are more emphasis on rock music and some borrowings from jazz and medieval or renaissance music .

reception

In a Glass House is considered a classic of the band and progressive rock . The music magazine eclipsed voted it eleventh on its list of the 150 most important prog albums. Udo Gerhards from Babyblauen Seiten praises the album as "[am] rousing and intelligent" and sees Gentle Giant here "at the height of her creativity".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b In a Glass House , Liner Notes, accessed October 28, 2012.
  2. In a Glass House at Discogs , accessed October 28, 2012.
  3. Bruce Eder: In a Glass House at Allmusic , accessed on October 28, 2012.
  4. a b Baby Blue Prog Reviews: Gentle Giant: In A Glass House , Baby Blue Pages , accessed on October 28, 2012.
  5. eclipsed No. 144, p. 39.