Focus - Moving Waves album flac
Performer: Focus Title: Moving Waves
Style: Prog Rock
Released: 1972
MP3 album: 1171 mb
FLAC album: 1244 mb
Rating: 4.6
Other formats: AA MP2 MPC ASF AC3 MP3 MMF
Genre: Rock
The album that boosted Focus into at least semi-fame outside of continental Europe, Moving Waves blasts off with their hit single, "Hocus Pocus. Built around a killer guitar hook by Jan Akkerman and a series of solo turns by the band, this instrumental replaced "Wipeout" as a staple of FM radio. The bizarrely hilarious vocal and accordion solos by Thijs van Leer - one of which absurdly concludes with rousing stadium cheers - have to be heard to be believed.
Album · 1970 · 6 Songs.
Moving Waves (also known as Focus II) is the second studio album from the Dutch rock band Focus, released in October 1971 on Imperial Records. Following the departure of Martin Dresden and Hans Cleuver in 1970, the band recruited Cyril Havermans on bass and Pierre van der Linden on drums and proceeded to work on new material. The album includes "Hocus Pocus", the group's most successful single, and "Eruption", a 23-minute track based on the opera Euridice by Jacopo Peri.
Moving Waves owes its unique character to the friction between Akkerman and van Leer as the band’s primary songwriters, something that continued to play out in increasingly dramatic fashion on the band’s 1972 double LP, Focus III
Tracklist Hide Credits
| A1 | Hocus PocusWritten-By – Jan Akkerman, Thijs van Leer |
6:35 |
| A2 | Le Clochard ("Bread")Written-By – Jan Akkerman |
1:55 |
| A3 | JanisWritten-By – Jan Akkerman, Thijs van Leer |
3:00 |
| A4 | Moving WavesMusic By – Thijs van LeerWords By – Inayat Khan* |
2:30 |
| A5 | Focus IIWritten-By – Thijs van Leer |
4:00 |
| Eruption | (22:35) | |
| B1.a | Orfeus, Answer, OrfeusWritten-By – Thijs van Leer |
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| B1.b | Answer, Pupilla, Tommy, PupillaWritten-By [Answer & Pupilla] – Thijs van LeerWritten-By [Tommy] – T. Barlache* |
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| B1.c | Answer, The BridgeWritten-By [Answer] – Thijs van LeerWritten-By [The Bridge] – Jan Akkerman |
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| B1.d | Euridice, Dayglow, Endless RoadWritten-By [Endless Road] – Pierre Van der LindenWritten-By [Euridice & Dayglow] – Thijs van LeerWritten-By [Euridice] – E. Nobel* |
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| B1.e | Answer, Orfeus, EuridiceWritten-By – Thijs van LeerWritten-By [Euridice] – E. Nobel* |
Companies, etc.
- Distributed By – Phonogram
Credits
- Acoustic Guitar – Jan Akkerman
- Bass Guitar – Cyriel Havermans*, Jan Akkerman
- Concept By [Basic Musical Idea] – Thijs van Leer (tracks: B1)
- Design, Photography By – Terence Ibbott
- Drums – Pierre Van der Linden
- Engineer – Jerry Boys
- Organ, Harmonium, Mellotron, Flute [Soprano, Alto], Piano – Thijs van Leer
- Producer – Mike Vernon
- Soloist, Guitar – Jan Akkerman
- Voice [Voices] – Cyriel Havermans*, Thijs van Leer
Notes
Original Greek 1st pressing in single sleeve with laminated front and non-laminated back.Issued on the black POLYDOR INTERNATIONAL label.
Has unique back sleeve depicting later bassist Bert Ruiter instead of Cyriel Havermans who plays on the album with long text in Greek by Γιάννης Πετρίδης (Yannis Petridis).
Recorded in Sound Techniques and Morgan Studios, London between April 13th and May 14th, 1971
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Rights Society: BIEM
Other versions
| Category | Artist | Title (Format) | Label | Category | Country | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5C 054-24385 | Focus | Focus II (LP, Album) | Imperial | 5C 054-24385 | Netherlands | 1971 |
| 1C 072-24 385 | Focus | Focus II (LP, Album, RE) | EMI | 1C 072-24 385 | Germany | 1977 |
| 5C 038-24385, 5N 038-24385 | Focus | Focus II (LP, Album, RE, RP) | Bovema Negram, Bovema Negram | 5C 038-24385, 5N 038-24385 | Netherlands | Unknown |
| RB 66.188 | Focus | Moving Waves (CD, Album, RE) | Red Bullet | RB 66.188 | Netherlands | 2001 |
| X2-13060 | Focus | Moving Waves (CD, Album, Unofficial) | I.R.S. Records | X2-13060 | Russia | Unknown |
