The Power and the Glory (Album)

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The Power and the Glory
Gentle Giant studio album

Publication
(s)

1974

admission

December 1973 to January 1974

Label (s) WWA Records

Title (number)

8th

running time

37:16

occupation

production

Gentle giant

Studio (s)

Advision Studios, London

chronology
In a Glass House
(1973) 		The Power and the Glory Free Hand
(1975)

The Power and the Glory is the sixth studio album by the British progressive rock band Gentle Giant . It was released on WWA Records in 1974.

Creation and publication

Gentle Giant wanted to record a spontaneous sounding album and not do more than two takes for each of The Power and the Glory pieces . The recordings took place in late 1973 and early 1974 in the London Advision Studios.

The album was released in 1974, unlike In a Glass House , on Capitol Records in the USA. Terrapin Trucking, Kerry Minnears Alucard Music and Derek Shulmans DRT Entertainment released various new CD and LP editions of The Power and the Glory from 1992 , some of which were remastered or with bonus titles. In 2014, a remixed version of the album by Steven Wilson will be released on the occasion of its 40th anniversary.

Track list

page 1

  1. Proclamation - 6:48
  2. So Sincere - 3:52
  3. Aspirations - 4:41
  4. Playing the Game - 6:46

Page 2

  2. Cogs in Cogs - 3:08
  3. No Gods a Man - 4:28
  4. The Face - 4:12
  5. Valedictory - 3:21

Bonus title

  2. Proclamation (Live) - 4:51 (Only on the 35th Anniversary Edition from 2005.)
  3. The Power and the Glory - 2:53 (Originally a 1974 single)

style

Gentle Giant reduce the number of instrumentation on the album but use more electric instruments than before; Keyboards and guitars are in the foreground. The characteristic clock and tempo changes are retained and even more exhausted than before. Some influences from pop music , jazz and blues can now also be heard. The pieces often come across as dissonant and gloomy. The Power and the Glory is a concept album about power and corruption.

reception

Since The Power and the Glory seems difficult to access, it was not exclusively rated positively. Bruce Eder from Allmusic only awarded two out of five stars, Georgiy Starostin considers some pieces to be soulless atrociousness. However, the album is also praised as varied, atmospheric and modern on the Babyblauen Seiten , and the music magazine eclipsed included it in its list of the 150 most important prog albums.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Power and the Glory , Liner Notes, accessed November 9, 2012.
  2. ↑ The Power and the Glory at Discogs , accessed November 9, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b Baby Blue Prog Reviews: Gentle Giant: The Power And The Glory , Baby Blue Pages , accessed on November 9, 2012.
  4. ↑ Bruce Eder: The Power and the Glory at Allmusic , accessed on November 9, 2012.
  5. ^ Georgiy Starostin: Gentle Giant. The Power and the Glory , Only Solitaire , accessed November 9, 2012.
  6. ↑ eclipsed No. 144, p. 34.