RENAISSANCE VERIFIED LIVE AT CARNEGIE HALL 180GRAM REMASTERED GATEFOLD 2 LP SET

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RARE RENAISSANCE CARNEGIE HALL  REMASTERED 180 GRAM DOUBLE LP SET.

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 FOR YOUR TURNTABLE - THE Limited UK PRESSED REMASTERED REPERTOIRE RECORDS double 180 gram vinyl GATEFOLD JACKET LP pressing with matt finish. Renaissance are one of the most creative of all the UK art/prog rock groups that flourished in the 1970s, with many best-selling studio albums to their credit, all featuring the superb vocals of Annie Haslam and the sophisticated melodies of guitarist Michael Dunford. Another notable milestone was the Live At Carnegie Hall set, first released in 1976. It was a high point of their career and crowned their popularity in America. This reissue once again revisits and celebrates that superb concert they performed with the backing of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. The songs and arrangements span the period in the early 1970s, when they devised many of their best works, such as 'Carpet Of The Sun' and 'Mother Russia'. In essence, this is a live Best Of Renaissance collection not to be missed.  

Today, Renaissance are seen as one of the major players in the reviled progressive rock scene of bands like Yes, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Genesis, Gentle Giant and Camel. In fact, although Renaissance did possess the same type of lengthy multi-part suites that are considered a defining feature of prog rock, Renaissance's sound was completely different from the hard rock of Gabriel-era Genesis or the heavily synthesised sounds of 1970s Pink Floyd or Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Both of these types of music were in general very boring. Some of Steve Hackett's solos, for instance, are incredibly long compared to what is expressed in them. 

Instead of trying to make rock more complex by adding large numbers of solos, Renaissance started from the basis of simple piano or less often acoustic guitar and added orchestras that blend completely with the rhythm section of bassist Jon Camp and drummer Terence Sullivan. Often the piano reminds one of TORI AMOS on her early albums, but despite the absence of Amos' deeply personal tales of alienation, Renaissance actually sounded darker than Tori did, and Betty Thatcher's mysteriously poetic lyrics fit the mood perfectly. 

On "Running Hard", for instance, the band combines complex piano lines wiht a simple marching drumbeat to create an extremely dark atmosphere over with Annie Haslam's amazingly simple and pure soprano functions as a true instrument in a way rare amongst rock singers. Because Haslam, unlike most singers in classical music, sings so spontaneously and does not try to push her voice into anything except a perfectly natural direction, she comes off sounding so much better. The way Haslam can use her voice to sing wordlessly on the opener "Prologue" is one of the most stunning feats in the history of recorded singing. 

The only short track on "Live at Carnegie Hall", "Carpet of the Sun", still seems much longer than it is because of the desnity of the strings and piano work, but the remarkably soft sound possesses surprising power and can move any aware listener to tears like no other record. The "Arabian Nights" adaptation "Schnerezade" and the dark tale of a person drowning without anyone to rescue him "Ocean Gypsy" are mellower still and possess a beauty nobody has ever matched. "Mother Russia", a tribute to recently deceased author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and based on his ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH is even better because it adds a sense of drama to the quiet passion of the rest of the album. The lyrics may not be quite as despairing as BRENDAN PERRY but they are enough to make anybody cry. Moreover, when the band focuses on Dunford's acoustic guitar it adds a whole new tone to the music. 

All in all, "Live at Carnegie Hall" is a unique work of beautiful, soft, poetic passion that seems to mix rock's power and spontaneity with all the best possible elements of music from the pre-rock era. The tone may not be nearly so intense as LATE TALK TALK or GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR but it is equally dark and Haslam's plain, powerfull, bell-like voice is an absolute treat. The live environment, unlike most live recordings, actually makes "Live at Carnegie Hall" quite noticeably softer than the studio versions of all songs included. 

If music writers can (deservedly) rehabilitate Laura Nyro, they ought to be able to give Annie Haslam, Betty Thatcher and Renaissance the same treatment. Fans of Kate Bush, Tori Amos and Dead Can Dance will see the roots of their favourite artists' work - even if those musicians never heard these songs. 

Disc: 1 1. Prologue 2. Ocean Gypsy 3. Can You Understand 4. Carpet of the Sun 5. Running Hard

6. Mother Russia

Disc: 2 1. Scheherazade 2. Ashes Are Burning

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