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- Release Date: June 20, 1995
- Label: Repertoire Records (Germany)
- UPC: 4009910457429
- WAPI (Tower ID): 105926520
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Product Description
More Albums by New York Renaissance Band (Art...Run a Quick Search on "Prologue" by New York Renaissance Band to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Prologue"Browse more products related to "New York Renaissance Band"Product noteRenaissance: Annie Haslam (vocals, percussion), Rob Hendry (guitar, mandolin, chimes, vocals), John Tout (keyboards, vocals), Francis Monkman (synthesizer), John Camp (bass, tampoura, vocals), Terry Sullivan (percussion). Title NotePROLOGUE, the six track release from New York Renaissance Band, includes "Kiev" and "Rajah Khan." Album DescriptionThe first album by the '70s (i.e. Annie Haslam) version of Renaissance is a transitional work, rooted in more standard hard rock sounds (including psychedelia) than what followed. One can spot the difference, which may please some listeners and put others off, in the fairly heavy guitar sound of "Prologue," Rob Hendry's electric instrument playing both lead and rhythm parts prominently at various times behind Annie Haslam's soaring vocals and adjacent to John Tout's piano. "Kiev" may also startle some longtime fans, since Haslam doesn't handle the lead vocals, the male members' singing being much more prominent. The ethereal, flowingly lyrical "Sounds of the Sea" is the cut here that most resembles the music that the group became known for in the years ahead, and shows Haslam singing in the high register for which she would become famous. "Spare Some Love," with its prominent folky acoustic guitar, also anticipates material (specifically "Let It Grow" and "On The Frontier") off of the group's better known second album, Ashes Are Burning. "Bound For Infinity" marked the final creative contribution by co-founder Jim McCarty, of the '60s version of Renaissance, and is pretty enough even if it doesn't fit in anywhere with their subsequent sound. And the 11-minute epic "Rajah Khan," with its elements of raga-rock, including sitar-like passages on Hendry's electric guitars and an extended VCS 3 synthesizer solo by Francis Monkman, is a more advanced and virtuoso descendant of late '60s psychedelia. It, too, has little to do with the sound that the group subsequently adopted (although it does intersect, in the most peripheral way, with "Song of Scheherazade" and some of the other Eastern-theme works that preceded it), but the track is entertaining and does show off a startlingly different type of art-rock toward which this group could have gravitated. The sound is clean, and this version of Prologue is to be preferred over Capitol's abortive attempt to reissue it in the late 1980's as In The Beginning, which cut some of the material and had totally lackluster sound. ~ Bruce Eder Customer Reviews for "Prologue (Import) (CD)" by New York Renaissance Band (Art...Most Recent Customer Reviews Etherial at its best, November 17, 2007
By Susan
This is one of the most haunting pieces of music that you will ever hear.
Sounds of the Sea is especially poignant for my family as it was the music
playing when our daughter came into the world. For years, this song was the
only thing that would calm her crying. To this day, she is haunted by the sea
and its sounds. This is a dont miss album!!
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