Solar Fire
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Publication |
November 30, 1973 (UK & Europe) |
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1973 |
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Bronze Records (UK & Europe) Philips (USA) |
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Title (number) |
7th |
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Manfred Mann, Earth Band |
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Studio (s) |
The Workhouse Studios, London |
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Solar Fire is the fourth studio album by Manfred Mann's Earth Band . It was released on Bronze Records in 1973 .
Creation and publication
The album was recorded in 1973 at Workhouse Studios in London and released that same year as the band's first album on Bronze Records. It continued motifs from the single Joybringer , which was an adaptation of Gustav Holst's orchestral suite The Planets .
Track list
page 1
- Father of Day, Father of Night - 9:52
- In the Beginning, Darkness - 5:19
- Pluto the Dog - 2:45
Page 2
- Solar Fire - 5:13
- Saturn, Lord of the Ring / Mercury, the Winged Messenger - 6:31
- Earth, The Circle Part 2 - 3:20
- Earth, The Circle Part 1 - 3:47
Difference between European and US versions
- In contrast to the European version, the original US version contained the title Joybringer as the third title on the B-side when it was published.
Bonus title 1998
- Joybringer - 3:22
- Father of Day, Father of Night - 3:01
style
Solar Fire largely leaves the blues rock of the first three albums behind and can be assigned to progressive rock . There are also some passages with jazz rock and jam session flair. The pieces often have complex structures, there are both calm and powerful passages. The keyboard and guitar are played virtuously and take on equal roles. Richard Foss of Allmusic compares the album in places with King Crimson .
Father of Day, Father of Night is an adaptation of a title by Bob Dylan . A single version of it and the single Joybringer were included on a 1998 remastered version of the album.
Earth, the Circle Part 1 (arrangement after Part 2, sic) is an arrangement of Jimbo's Lullaby from the piano suite Children's Corner by Claude Debussy ; nevertheless, man is given as the sole composer.
reception
Jochen Rindfrey from Babyblauen Seiten sees Manfred Mann's Earth Band here at the height of their work, Christian Rode considers the album to be “simply perfect” because “Manfred Mann takes it here in terms of the quality of the compositions, the virtuosity and the conceptual implementation with all sizes of the 'real' Prog on “. The music magazine eclipsed selected Solar Fire in its list of the 150 most important prog albums. The magazine also certifies the album in its book Rock - The Complete Works of the Greatest Rock Acts in Check: All albums, all songs (part 1) belong to the "Prog-Olymp" and to be a "psychedelic star hour" with which man can in the "Ancestral Gallery of Progrock". Consequently, it awards the work the highest category of shopping frenzy and it lands in second place in the overall view of all Manfred Mann's Earth Band albums.
Web links
- Solar Fire with Manfred Mann's Earth Band
- Solar Fire at Allmusic (English)
- Reviews of Solar Fire on the baby blue pages
- Solar Fire at Discogs
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Greg Russo: Mannerisms - The five phases of Manfred Mann . 2nd Edition. Crossfire Publications, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-9791845-2-9 , pp. 200 .
- ↑ a b Greg Russo: Mannerisms - The five phases of Manfred Mann . 2nd Edition. Crossfire Publications, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-9791845-2-9 , pp. 196 .
- ↑ a b Album Notes ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2012 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. , manfredmann.co.uk , accessed November 5, 2012.
- ↑ Solar Fire at Discogs
- ↑ a b Baby Blue Prog Reviews: Manfred Mann's Earth Band: Solar Fire , Baby Blue Pages , accessed on November 5, 2012.
- ↑ Richard Foss: Solar Fire at Allmusic (English), accessed on November 5, 2012.
- ↑ eclipsed No. 144, p. 35.
- ↑ Walter Sehrer, Matthias Bergert, Marcus Wicker, Wolfram Porr: Manfred Mann's Earth Band . In: eclipsed-Redaktion (Hrsg.): Rock - The complete works of the greatest rock acts in check: all albums, all songs . Part 1. Sysyphus Verlag GmbH, Aschaffenburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86852-646-2 , p. 148-159 .
