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Renaissance are an English progressive rock band, best known for their 1978 UK top 10 hit "Northern Lights" and progressive rock classics li
Renaissance, "Kings and Queens"
Live on Beat-Club, this is Renaissance 1.0, featuring co-founders and ex-Yardbirds Keith Relf and Jim McCarty, along with Keith's sister Jane, John Hawken, and Louis Cennamo. The Annie Haslam-fronted version would come along a few years later.
Some fine proto-prog for your Friday afternoon.
Keith & Jane Relf
La secuela de los Yardbirds por todos recordada es Led Zeppelin, cuando Keith Relf (su hermana Jane Relf) y Jim McCarthy fundaron Renaissance y publicaron un primer LP en 1969 producido por Paul Samwell-Smith, es decir, una reunión de tres ex Yardbirds. El precedente de la banda había sido el dúo Together, formado por Relf y McCarthy, con un único sencillo naif publicado en noviembre de 1968 que pasó sin pena ni gloria.
Ambos sentían la imperiosa necesidad de apartarse del blues rock y del proto heavy practicados por los Yarbirds en los últimos años. El resultado fue un álbum debut que es una joya del rock progresivo suave con influencias del folk y la música clásica, muy apartado de lo que venían haciendo.
“Island”, el corte que abre la cara dos tiene algo de “Something In The Air” de Thunderclap Newman, no sólo por el tempo y el riff de guitarra, sino por los intermedios instrumentales en los que manda el piano de John Hawken.
Illusion - Illusion [#609]
Illusion the band's second second album Illusion #609 on Stegzys Music Project
During the run-up to the next Music Project entry, I had to do a bit of research. Renaissance is one of those true prog bands whose line up has changed so much over the years, they’re unrecognisable to their original form.
When Renaissance formed in 1969 it originally comprised of former Yardbirds Jim McCarty and Keith & Jane Relf together with John Hawken and Colosseum Bassist Louis Cennamo but…
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This is beautiful!!!
Have never listened to Renaissance? Well, you should!
