The Alan Parsons Project – The Sicilian Defence (2014)
Year : 2014 Style : Rock , Progressive Rock Country : United Kingdom Audio : 320 kbps + scans Size : 110 mb
Bio:
The Alan Parsons Project is a British progressive rock band, active between 1975 and 1990, consisting of Eric Woolfson and Alan Parsons surrounded by a varying number of session musicians and some relatively consistent band members such as guitarist Ian Bairnson.Behind the revolving line-up and the regular sidemen, the true core of the Project was the duo of Parsons and Woolfson. Woolfson was a songwriter by profession, but also a composer and pianist. Parsons was a successful producer and accomplished engineer. Almost all songs on the band's albums are credited to "Woolfson/Parsons".Since 1993, a new version of the band has toured, with Parsons performing live acoustic guitar, keyboards and vocals, with various line-ups. This latest incarnation was called Alan Parsons, eventually renaming as the Alan Parsons Live Project, the name distinct from "The Alan Parsons Project", due to founder Parsons' break-up with Woolfson.
Album:
The Sicilian Defence is the twelfth studio album by The Alan Parsons Project, released in 2014. It was named after the Sicilian Defence, a famous chess opening move. This was the final Alan Parsons Project studio album to be released, 24 years after the split of the band, and it has so far only been available as part of the eleven-CD box set The Complete Albums Collection (which omits the original mix of Tales of Mystery and Imagination and all bonus tracks from previous expanded reissues).Originally recorded in 1979, it was never actually intended for release, but was sent to the band's label, Arista, as a sort of "chess move" as they did not feel they were given adequate time to make a new album while Eric Woolfson negotiated their contract, but were under obligation to deliver one anyway. As such, this album consists of incomplete sketches that were never fleshed out into proper songs, and whose titles follow a particular variation of the chess opening. "P-QB4" was the first track to be released from the album, when a shortened version of it entitled "Elsie's Theme" was included on the 2008 remastered edition of Eve. It is thus the only track to be given a formal title unrelated to a chess move.
Line-Up:
Alan Parsons – keyboards, acoustic guitar, bass, flute, vocals, vocoder, engineering, production Eric Woolfson – keyboards, vocals, executive production
The Alan Parsons Symphonic Project - Live In Colombia (2CD) (2016)
Year : 2016 Style : Progressive Rock , Symphonic Rock Country : United Kingdom Audio : 320 kbps + all scans Size : 152 mb
Info:
The Alan Parsons Project is a British progressive rock band, active between 1975 and 1990, consisting of Eric Woolfson and Alan Parsons surrounded by a varying number of session musicians and some relatively consistent band members such as guitarist Ian Bairnson.Behind the revolving line-up and the regular sidemen, the true core of the Project was the duo of Parsons and Woolfson. Woolfson was a songwriter by profession, but also a composer and pianist. Parsons was a successful producer and accomplished engineer. Almost all songs on the band's albums are credited to "Woolfson/Parsons".Since 1993, a new version of the band has toured, with Parsons performing live acoustic guitar, keyboards and vocals, with various line-ups. This latest incarnation was called Alan Parsons, eventually renaming as the Alan Parsons Live Project, the name distinct from "The Alan Parsons Project", due to founder Parsons' break-up with Woolfson.
Album:
To the great delight of Alan Parsons' fans, for the first time on an audio recording, THE ALAN PARSONS SYMPHONIC PROJECT combines the talents of his amazing band with the lush sound of a symphony orchestra, creating a very special show with unmatched quality. On the evening of August 31st, 2013, a large crowd gathered at Parque Pies Descalzos in Medellin, Colombia. When Alan Parsons appeared on stage, along with the Medellin Philharmonic Orchestra and his band, the audience went crazy. "Live in Colombia" is the audio document of that incredible evening.Alan Parsons, the mastermind and solo survivor since the heydays, started out as assistant engineer to George Martin at Abbey Road studios and was heavily involved towards the end of the Beatles' success story. Not to mention a certain 'Dark Side of The Moon' and Pink Floyd, prior to setting up his very own project in 1975. The Alan Parsons Project debut, Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1975), was based upon Poe's horror stories and merely "The Raven" has managed to spread his wings and fly across the sky to touch base in Colombia.It's quite the experience to hear tracks such as "Breakdown" (from the 1977 classic, I Robot) or "The Raven" for that matter with the full 70-piece orchestra and massive choir. The five complex and intriguing parts of "The Turn of a Friendly Card", including 'Snake Eyes, The Ace Of Swords, Nothing Left To Lose', are also exceptional as the band sounds great and the same goes for lead singer PJ Olsson.Of course, the rock&pop hits "Don't Answer Me" and "Damned If I Do" are also included with refreshed arrangements.While lyrically there's no real contest to the Raven, it opens up with the future world of "I Robot" and ends in a more up-to-date sound of "Games People Play". The youngest track on display (La Sagrada Familia -1987) benefit from the orchestra, while the rest are all from the classic era of 1976 to 1983. It's something different from the usual live effort.Great performance.
Line-Up:
Alan Parsons (acoustic guitar, keys, vocals) P.J. Olsson (lead vocals) Alastair Greene (guitar, vocals) Guy Erez (bass, vocals) Danny Thompson (drums, vocals) Tom Brooks (keyboards, vocals) Todd Cooper (saxophone, guitar, percussion, vocals) The Medellin Philharmonic Orchestra
Tracklist:
CD1:
01. I Robot 02. Damned If I Do 03. Don’t Answer Me 04. Breakdown 05. The Raven 06. Time 07. I Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You 08. La Sagrada Familia 09. The Turn of a Friendly Card (Part One) 10. Snake Eyes 11. The Ace of Swords 12. Nothing Left to Lose 13. The Turn of a Friendly Card (Part Two)
CD2:
01. What Goes Up… 02. Luciferama 03. Silence and I 04. Prime Time 05. Sirius 06. Eye in the Sky 07. Old and Wise 08. Games People Play
Alan Parsons with Israel Philharmonic Orchestra - One Note Symphony: Live In Tel Aviv (2022)
Year : 2022 Style : Progressive Rock , Symphonic Rock Country : United Kingdom Audio : 320 kbps + scans Size : 165 mb
Info:
The Alan Parsons Project is a British progressive rock band, active between 1975 and 1990, consisting of Eric Woolfson and Alan Parsons surrounded by a varying number of session musicians and some relatively consistent band members such as guitarist Ian Bairnson.Behind the revolving line-up and the regular sidemen, the true core of the Project was the duo of Parsons and Woolfson. Woolfson was a songwriter by profession, but also a composer and pianist. Parsons was a successful producer and accomplished engineer. Almost all songs on the band's albums are credited to "Woolfson/Parsons".Since 1993, a new version of the band has toured, with Parsons performing live acoustic guitar, keyboards and vocals, with various line-ups. This latest incarnation was called Alan Parsons, eventually renaming as the Alan Parsons Live Project, the name distinct from "The Alan Parsons Project", due to founder Parsons' break-up with Woolfson.
Album:
Frontiers Music Srl is proud to announce the release of another stunning live album from Alan Parsons and his skilled band of musicians, which this time includes a full performance with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. ‘One Note Symphony: Live In Tel Aviv’ will be released on 11th February 2022 on 2CD+DVD, Blu-ray, 3xLP and digital formats.“It’s a rare treat to perform with an orchestra, so I asked the team who had filmed shows of ours in the Netherlands and produced the video for our recent ‘The NeverEnding Show’ to join us and film this performance as well,” explains Parsons. “As luck would have it, they agreed to make the trip to Tel Aviv, and hired a fantastic crew of local cameramen and technicians. We are all very proud of the final result.”He continues: “Whenever I have an opportunity to play with an orchestra, I always try to incorporate songs into the setlist that we wouldn’t otherwise be able to perform live, such as the epic ‘Silence and I’ from the ‘Eye In the Sky’ album. We also took advantage of this opportunity to play ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ from our latest studio album, which is a new version of the well known classical piece that appeared in the movie Fantasia. Our keyboard player, Tom Brooks, is a talented orchestral arranger and he conducted all of the orchestral pieces for this show.”Parsons and his band had played in Israel three times over the previous decade. “There is a special sense of excitement whenever we play there. To be given the honour of performing with one of the greatest orchestras in the world was a fantastic experience,” he concludes.The career of Alan Parsons began at the age of 18 when he earned his first credit on the Beatles album ‘Abbey Road’. He soon became a respected studio engineer, working with the likes of Paul McCartney, John Miles, The Hollies, Al Stewart and Pink Floyd. He is especially renowned for his work on the latter’s 1973 masterpiece ‘The Dark Side of The Moon’, on which he experimented with many of the most advanced recording techniques of the time, showcasing his forward thinking approach. As well as receiving multiple global sales awards, Parsons has received ten Grammy Award nominations for his work. In 2007, he was nominated for Best Surround Sound Album for his ‘A Valid Path’ release.In 1975, he formed The Alan Parsons Project along with Eric Woolfson. The Project consisted of a group of studio musicians and vocalists that often involved members of the bands Pilot and Ambrosia, both of whom Parsons had produced. The Alan Parsons Project released ten studio albums before ceasing at the end of the 1980’s, but rarely performed live despite having several chart hits.Parsons has subsequently released four albums under his own name that have often featured musicians from the Project releases. In 1994, he started touring regularly as The Alan Parsons Live Project and in 2019 returned with ‘The Secret’, his first studio album in 15 years. It was followed by a world tour that saw Parsons and his band perform new songs alongside classic tracks from his catalogue. Parsons was awarded an OBE in June 2021.
Line-Up:
Alan Parsons - vocals, acoustic guitar, ukulele, keyboards P.J. Olsson - lead vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion Todd Cooper - vocals, sax, recorder, acoustic guitar, percussion Jeff Kollman - guitars, vocals Tom Brooks - keyboards, vocals, orchestral arranger and conductor Dan Tracey - guitars, vocals Guy Erez - bass, vocals Danny Thompson - drums, vocals Jordan Asher Huffman - guest vocals The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Tracklist:
CD1:
01. One Note Symphony (Live) (5:17) 02. Damned If I Do (Live) (4:54) 03. Don't Answer Me (Live) (4:30) 04. Time (Live) (5:47) 05. Breakdown - the Raven (Live) (6:45) 06. Luciferama (Live) (4:57) 07. Silence and I (Live) (7:41) 08. I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You (Live) (4:47) 09. Don't Let It Show (Live) (4:42)
CD2:
01. The Sorcerers's Apprentice (Live) (5:51) 02. Standing on Higher Ground (Live) (4:37) 03. As Lights Fall (Live) (3:56) 04. I Can't Get There from Here (Live) (4:46) 05. Prime Time (Live) (10:58) 06. Sirius - Eye in the Sky (Live) (5:54) 07. Old and Wise (Live) (5:32) 08. (The System of) Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (Live) (3:32) 09. Games People Play (Live) (4:40)
Year : 2022 Style : Rock , Progressive Rock Country : United Kingdom Audio : 320 kbps + scans Size : 110 mb
Bio:
The Alan Parsons Project is a British progressive rock band, active between 1975 and 1990, consisting of Eric Woolfson and Alan Parsons surrounded by a varying number of session musicians and some relatively consistent band members such as guitarist Ian Bairnson.Behind the revolving line-up and the regular sidemen, the true core of the Project was the duo of Parsons and Woolfson. Woolfson was a songwriter by profession, but also a composer and pianist. Parsons was a successful producer and accomplished engineer. Almost all songs on the band's albums are credited to "Woolfson/Parsons".Since 1993, a new version of the band has toured, with Parsons performing live acoustic guitar, keyboards and vocals, with various line-ups. This latest incarnation was called Alan Parsons, eventually renaming as the Alan Parsons Live Project, the name distinct from "The Alan Parsons Project", due to founder Parsons' break-up with Woolfson.
Album:
Frontiers Music is proud to announce the release of the new studio album "From The New World" by the legendary Alan Parsons. The eleven-time Grammy nominated legendary music icon and master of progressive rock released his last studio album, "The Secret", in April 2019. "From The New World" touches on the classics sounds Parsons has become known for in his impressive career, with progressive, symphonic and classic rock elements all touched upon on this stunning album. Guest appearances from the likes of renowned guitarist and singer Joe Bonamassa, Tommy Shaw of Styx, vocalist David Pack (Ambrosia) and vocalist James Durbin add wonderful touches to the stunning performances by Alan and his incredible backing band.
Line-Up:
Alan Parsons – keyboards, acoustic guitar, bass, flute, vocals, vocoder, engineering, production
+ guests:
+ Tommy Shaw (lv, bv) David Pack (lv) James Durbin (lv, g) P.J. Olsson (lv, bv) Todd Cooper (lv, s, bv) Dan Tracey (lv, g, bv) Mark Mikel (lv, bv) Tabitha Fair (lv) Jeff Kollman (g) Jeff Marshall (g) Tim Pierce (g) Guy Erez (b) Danny Thompson (d) Tom Brooks (k) Doug Powell (k, bv) Matt McCarrin (k) Kim Bullard (k) Chris Shutters (bv) Scott Hunt (bv) Joe Bonamassa (g on track 5, 7) Mika Larson (ce on track 7)
Tracklist:
01. Fare Thee Well 02. The Secret 03. Uroboros (ft. Tommy Shaw) 04. Don't Fade Now 05. Give 'Em My Love (ft. James Durbin, Joe Bonamassa) 06. Obstacles 07. I Won't Be Led Astray (ft. David Pack, Joe Bonamassa) 08. You Are The Light 09. Halo 10. Goin' Home 11. Be My Baby
Alan Parsons - From The New World (Japan Edition) (2022)
Year : 2022 Style : Rock , Progressive Rock Country : United Kingdom Audio : 320 kbps + scans Size : 118 mb
Bio:
The Alan Parsons Project is a British progressive rock band, active between 1975 and 1990, consisting of Eric Woolfson and Alan Parsons surrounded by a varying number of session musicians and some relatively consistent band members such as guitarist Ian Bairnson.Behind the revolving line-up and the regular sidemen, the true core of the Project was the duo of Parsons and Woolfson. Woolfson was a songwriter by profession, but also a composer and pianist. Parsons was a successful producer and accomplished engineer. Almost all songs on the band's albums are credited to "Woolfson/Parsons".Since 1993, a new version of the band has toured, with Parsons performing live acoustic guitar, keyboards and vocals, with various line-ups. This latest incarnation was called Alan Parsons, eventually renaming as the Alan Parsons Live Project, the name distinct from "The Alan Parsons Project", due to founder Parsons' break-up with Woolfson.
Album:
Frontiers Music is proud to announce the release of the new studio album "From The New World" by the legendary Alan Parsons. The eleven-time Grammy nominated legendary music icon and master of progressive rock released his last studio album, "The Secret", in April 2019. "From The New World" touches on the classics sounds Parsons has become known for in his impressive career, with progressive, symphonic and classic rock elements all touched upon on this stunning album. Guest appearances from the likes of renowned guitarist and singer Joe Bonamassa, Tommy Shaw of Styx, vocalist David Pack (Ambrosia) and vocalist James Durbin add wonderful touches to the stunning performances by Alan and his incredible backing band.
Line-Up:
Alan Parsons – keyboards, acoustic guitar, bass, flute, vocals, vocoder, engineering, production
+ guests:
Lead Vocals - Alan Parsons, Tommy Shaw, David Pack, James Durbin, P.J. Olsson, Todd Cooper, Dan Tracey, Mark Mikel, Tabitha Fair Backing Vocals - Alan Parsons, Tommy Shaw, P.J. Olsson, Todd Cooper, Dan Tracey, Doug Powell, Mark Mikel, Chris Shutters, Scott Hunt Guitars - Alan Parsons, Jeff Kollman, Dan Tracey, Doug Powell, Jeff Marshall, James Durbin, Tim Pierce Bass - Guy Erez Keyboards - Tom Brooks, Doug Powell, Matt McCarrin, Kim Bullard Sax - Todd Cooper Cello on “I Won’t Be Led Astray” - Mika Larson Guitar Solos on “Give ‘Em My Love” and “I Won’t Be Led Astray” - Joe Bonamassa Drums - Danny Thompson
Tracklist:
01. Fare Thee Well 02. The Secret 03. Uroboros (ft. Tommy Shaw) 04. Don't Fade Now 05. Give 'Em My Love (ft. James Durbin, Joe Bonamassa) 06. Obstacles 07. I Won't Be Led Astray (ft. David Pack, Joe Bonamassa) 08. You Are The Light 09. Halo 10. Goin' Home 11. Be My Baby 12. Don't Fade Now (Remix Version) (Japan Bonus Track)
The Alan Parsons Project - Pyramid (1978) (Cooking Vinyl Records Edition 2024)
Year : 1978 (Cooking Vinyl Records Edition 2024) Style : Rock , Progressive Rock Country : United Kingdom Audio : 320 kbps + scans Size : 124 mb
Bio:
The Alan Parsons Project is a British progressive rock band, active between 1975 and 1990, consisting of Eric Woolfson and Alan Parsons surrounded by a varying number of session musicians and some relatively consistent band members such as guitarist Ian Bairnson.Behind the revolving line-up and the regular sidemen, the true core of the Project was the duo of Parsons and Woolfson. Woolfson was a songwriter by profession, but also a composer and pianist. Parsons was a successful producer and accomplished engineer. Almost all songs on the band's albums are credited to "Woolfson/Parsons".Since 1993, a new version of the band has toured, with Parsons performing live acoustic guitar, keyboards and vocals, with various line-ups. This latest incarnation was called Alan Parsons, eventually renaming as the Alan Parsons Live Project, the name distinct from "The Alan Parsons Project", due to founder Parsons' break-up with Woolfson.
Album:
British record label Cooking Vinyl is releasing a new version of THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT 1978’s third album “Pyramid”. There was a 4CD+blu-ray+2LP box set released past August, expensive, bloated with too many early / rough takes, etc… and if you only need the CD why to get the LP’s in the same package or vice versa?Now are being available the standalone versions, and this digipak CD, with 4 bonus tracks is more than enough.The release is being sold as “Pyramid (2024 Remaster, Expanded Edition)”, which in fact should be “Pyramid 2024 Stereo Remix, Expanded Edition“. The disc features a new 2024 HD Stereo Remix of the original album done by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios.Well, Alan Parsons himself has questioned why “Pyramid” needed a re-mixing. This is something many labels are doing nowadays to give classic albums a new life. A risky move, yet valid anyway. You like it or not.In the case of “Pyramid 2024 Stereo Remix, Expanded Edition” we like the results. It preserves the tone of the original recording, however everything sounds ‘really stereo’, bigger in the spatial spectrum.We love “Pyramid”, a classy rock&pop album with light proggy feel, and if you are an Alan Parsons / classic rock fan you need to hear this 2024 Stereo Remix.”Pyramid”, released in May 1978, is The Alan Parsons Project’s third album in three years. Its predecessors, Tales Of Mystery And Imagination (1976) and I Robot (1977) had explored rich lyrical themes, the first reaching into the past to enter the world of the writer Edgar Allan Poe, the second considering a future coloured by the science fiction of Isaac Asimov.When writing the songs for Pyramid, the Project’s co-founder Eric Woolfson explored a still wider timescale, referring to the Old Kingdom of Egypt of 3000BC as well as the curious – in both senses-thinkers of the modern day who were obsessed with those far-off times.In the Seventies, New Age thinking centred for some years on the supposed magic of pyramids, which were supposedly useful in many ways-whether that meant purifying water, polishing jewellery, growing plants, preserving food, aiding relaxation, speeding healing, or even enhancing sexual intercourse. No wonder Woolfson found pyramid power such a rich and amusing inspiration for his songwriting.Woolfson’s partner Alan Parsons recalls: “At the time, you could go to the shops and buy a metal, pyramid-shaped frame that you could put over a milk bottle- and supposedly it would preserve the milk for weeks instead of days. It was kind of trendy in this period, around 1977 to ’78, along with the Pet Rock.”Woolfson also had a personal interest in pyramids, his attention having been caught by the ancient Egyptian relics that he’d seen on display in Scotland, where he was born in 1945. This concept was perfect for the new album, set for release in May 1978, with the plan to record the music with the same core line-up as Tales… and I Robot plus guest singers.The results of the sessions at Abbey Road Studios were both subtle and powerful, covering a range of texture and emotion thanks to the state-of-the-art skills of guitarist lan Bairnson, bassist David Paton, drummer Stuart Elliott and the engineering and production genius of Alan Parsons himself.Parsons remembers: “At the start of ‘Voyager’, there’s a motif that had been going on in my head for some time. John Leach played it on a kantele, which is a Finnish stringed instrument, and we tried it in lots of different keys before we decided which one to use. The part that follows came together in the studio. I think lan Bairnson came up with those wonderful chords. Sadly, we lost lan in 2023: his guitar parts were crucial to the sound of The Alan Parsons Project.”The first of Pyramid’s guest singers is Colin Blunstone, whose performance on ‘The Eagle Will Rise Again’ is accompanied by cinematic strings and arpeggiated synth chords. There’s a certain expansive luxury and a sheen of lustrousness that makes the song totally convincing, and Blunstone himself recalls: “The session was in Studio 2 at Abbey Road, where I got the feeling that I was working with a very successful, well-rehearsed team who in the best possible way knew what they wanted and how to get it. There was a very friendly and supportive environment, and everything was done to make us feel completely at ease.”Stepping into different musical territory, ‘One More River’ is an energetic workout, propelled by shuffle bass and Lenny Zakatek’s fantastic, extravagant vocal. The singer tells us: “On ‘One More River’ I started singing in a clean, soul style and then I let rip with a rockier style, which was improvised – because with the APP songs, I usually heard them for the first time on the day I recorded them. On this song, I was always going to go up the range on the third verse, because they’ve heard the first verse, they’ve heard the second verse – so what are you going to do now? I always used the third verse to go for it. When you hear the old soul singers – Solomon Burke, Etta James, Marvin Gaye and all those legends – they get to that third verse, and they take off and the ad-libs come.”Dean Ford supplies the vocals on ‘Can’t Take It With You’, a simultaneously thoughtful and upbeat song anchored by deep bass notes. It’s propelled by tasteful guitar, synth whistles, and prominent drums, but even this abundant instrumentation pales in comparison to ‘In The Lap Of The Gods’, which features a church bell, pan flute, Eastern atmospheres and epic strings. As before, the music simplifies at one point to bass alone, before piano, choir and orchestra return for a final peak and a sudden end. It’s dramatic stuff.After this fully-leaded composition, Woolfson and Parsons were evidently aware that subtler vibes were needed, and so the cleverly-titled ‘Pyramania’ is both more humorous and different in tone. With its nifty piano and ersatz tuba break, plus la-la’d vocals from Jack Harris, the song has an almost New Wave feel along the lines of The Buggles, making for quite the stylistic departure from the songs that had gone before.Parsons then lets loose in grand style with ‘Hyper-Gamma-Spaces’, its title inspired by Woolfson’s brother Richard, a mathematician who had recently gained his D-Phil at Oxford, and whose research gave the track its name. This ia fantastic tune for lovers of synths, and one of APP’s most famous instrumentals.Finally, ‘Shadow Of A Lonely Man’ serves as a proper, old-fashioned slab of romantic music, filmic in scope and emotional in feel. Inspired by the death of Woolfson’s father-in-law Arthur Zuckerman during the recording of Pyramid, the song benefits hugely from John Miles’ high-register vocal, swathes of strings and a long, slow ending that brings the original album to a suitable close.We find four bonus tracks here, each of which provides an insight into the working methods of Parsons and Woolfson. The first of these is the fascinating Early Mix of ‘Voyager’, which focuses in subtly different ways on various elements of this beautifully unhurried composition. Check out the Early Rough Mix of ‘What Goes Up’, too, a stripped-down version that allows the instrumentation to breathe, in particular the flurries of plangent guitar chords.Then take a close listen to ‘The Eagle Will Rise Again (Rough Mix Featuring Backing Vocals)’: it reveals incredible melodic depth in the choral vocals of its title. Finally, invest some time in the beautiful Eric Woolfson Demo Vocal version of ‘Shadow Of A Lonely Man’, simply because it’s an alternate way into this heartfelt, almost symphonic song.The LP sold two million copies worldwide and was nominated for the 1978 Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. Parsons and Woolfson went on to record nine more albums together: Eve (1979), The Turn Of A Friendly Card (1980), their commercial high-point Eye In The Sky (1982), Ammonia Avenue (1984), Vulture Culture (1985), Stereotomy (also ’85) and Gaudi (1987).A troubled final collaboration, Freudiana, was released under Woolfson’s name in 1990 and was staged in Vienna, Austria as a musical, and another LP called The Sicilian Defence was recorded in 1979 but not officially released until 2014.So what happened to ‘pyramid power’? Public interest in this area of occult thought quickly waned, and by the Eighties, crystals and transcendental meditation were the new topics of conversation at New Age dinner parties.With the ”Pyramid” album, Woolfson and Parsons drew a fine line between mocking these shallow obsessions and admiring the indestructible pyramids themselves – while setting that balance against equally immortal music.
Line-Up:
Alan Parsons – keyboards, acoustic guitar, bass, flute, vocals, vocoder, engineering, production
+ guests:
Keyboards – Duncan MacKay, Eric Woolfson Guitars – Ian Bairnson Drums, Percussion – Stuart Elliott Bass, Acoustic Guitar – David Paton Choir – The English Chorale Orchestra Conductor – Andrew Powell Lead Vocals – Colin Blunstone, David Paton, Dean Ford, Jack Harris, John Miles, Lenny Zakatek
Production:
Remastered At – Abbey Road Studios Remastered By [Half Speed Remastering] – Miles Showell Contractor [Orchestral] – David Katz Design [Cover Design], Photography By – Hipgnosis Design [Re-issue Design] – Ryan Art Engineer [Assistant] – Chris Blair, Pat Stapley Executive-Producer – Eric Woolfson Keyboards – Duncan MacKay, Eric Woolfson Liner Notes – Joel McIver Management [Product Manangement] – Danny Keene Mastered By – Chris Blair Photography By – Brimson* Producer, Engineer – Alan Parsons Written-By – Alan Parsons, Eric Woolfson
Tracklist:
01. Voyager 02. What Goes Up… 03. The Eagle Will Rise Again 04. One More River 05. Can’t Take It With You 06. In The Lap Of The Gods 07. Pyramania 08. Hyper-Gamma-Spaces 09. Shadow Of A Lonely Man 10. Voyager (Early Mix) (Bonus Track) 11. What Goes Up (Early Rough Mix) (Bonus Track) 12. The Eagle Will Rise Again (Rough Mix with Backing Vocals) (Bonus Track) 13. Shadow Of A Lonely Man (Eric Woolfson Demo Vocal) (Bonus Track)
