Renaissance (Renaissance album)
Renaissance was the debut album by the British progressive rock group Renaissance . The record was released in late 1969 on the Iceland (in Great Britain and Germany) and Elektra (in the USA) label.
admission
| title | Authors | length |
|---|---|---|
| Kings and Queens | Relf-McCarty | 10:56 |
| Innocence | Relf-McCarty | 7:07 |
| Iceland | Relf-McCarty | 5:58 |
| walker | Hawken-McCarty | 4:02 |
| Bullet | Relf-McCarty | 11:21 |
Soon after Keith Relf (voc, g, harm) and Jim McCarty (perc, voc) left the Yardbirds , they founded together with ex- Nashville Teens keyboardists John Hawken (p, harpsichord), Louis Cennamo (b) and Relfs Sister Jane (voc, perc) Renaissance. The recording sessions for their first long-playing record in this line-up took place in the London Olympic Sound Studios; it was produced by Paul Samwell-Smith , also a former Yardbirds member. The front cover designed by Jack Levy in Great Britain and Germany and the re-release on CD shows the painting “The Fall of Icarus ” by Jules Victor Génisson (1805–1860), which is exhibited in the Victoria and Albert Museum .
The music style of the band mixed elements of classical music with folk , rock and blues ; in addition there were elements of what years later would be called world music . This style is also known as progressive or symphonic rock ; Frank Laufenberg characterizes it as folk rock . The songs were mostly based on compositions by Relf and McCarty, which were then interpreted by the classically trained pianist Hawken and bassist Cennamo. In 1969, the long-playing record made it to number 60 on the British LP hit parade.
In 1995 it was re-released as a CD on Repertoire ; In addition to the five tracks on the vinyl record , the CD also contains the single version of Iceland , also published in 1969, which was shortened to 3:37 minutes - this missing the two-and-a-half-minute orchestral closing sequences of the LP version, which were closely based on Beethoven's Pathétique sonata - and their original 3:00 minute B-side The Sea .
A second re-release (1998 on Mooncrest ) contained another four bonus tracks, namely Prayer for Light , Walking Away , Shining Where the Sun Has Been and All the Falling Angels .
Web links
- This LP at allmusic.com
Remarks
- ↑ Information on the inner cover of the vinyl LP
- ↑ a b Renaissance 1969 to 1971 ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on John Hawkens website, viewed August 28, 2010
- ↑ Frank and Ingrid Laufenberg: Hit Lexicon of Rock and Pop. 3 volumes, Ullstein, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-548-36920-4 , volume 2, p. 1813
- ↑ Mark Brennan in the booklet for the CD
- ↑ Album facts and reviews at Baby Blue Prog Reviews
