****ġ978′s Pyramid saw the first involvement of Colin Blunstone on ‘The Eagle Will Rise Again’. Although ‘Total Eclipse’ is more experimental. The instrumental title track is nicely insistent whilst the album actually spawned three singles. The follow-up I Robot consisted of mainly more pithy, funkier, pieces. It is the 1987 remix of the debut that is included here with contributions from Arthur Brown, John Miles and the core band of Ian Bairnson, David Paton and Stuart Tosh (who all had some success in the seventies pop band Pilot) The music evokes the best of prog, Floyd-esque in places as you might expect: Parsons had also engineered The Dark Side Of The Moon. The albums always used a plethora of the best session players and vocalists. It pre-dated Jeff Wayne and his ‘War Of The Worlds’ in the blending of narration, verse and music. The debut album Tales Of Mystery And Imagination, one of 11 in this collection, brought together spoken word and lavish soundscapes and was to set the tone for future excursions. Those who usually associate the pair with heavy-going, thought provoking, progressively-inclined fare may be surprised that much of the content is actually melodic rock/AOR and very accessible. Together with his musical partner, lyricist Eric Woolfson, he crafted some sonically immaculate and always beautifully executed offerings of his own.
Parsons was famously the assistant engineer at Abbey Road and got his hands on the latter Beatles albums. The Alan Parsons Live Project, news, interview, radio feature (February 2015)Īlan Parsons almost redefined the idea of the concept album in 1976. Share the post "Album review: THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT – The Complete Albums Collection"
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