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Focus – Ship of Memories (1976) (@256)
17 Aug 2007
(Review from wikipedia, allmusic.com)
Ship of Memories is an instrumental album released in 1976 by Sire Records, featuring previously unreleased material from 1970, 1973, and 1975 by the Dutch progressive rock group Focus. The first four songs were originally slated to appear on a followup album to Focus III in 1973, but there were disagreements within the band about the quality of the material, and the project was shelved. In retrospect, the musicianship is uniformly high on all of the songs.
Starting off with “P’s March”, a track rooted in the style of Focus’ debut album “In and Out of Focus”, “Ship of Memories” gradually works its way through the band’s many phases to the “Mother Focus” styled “Crackers”. The album ends with the U.S. version of their signature song “Hocus Pocus” — it is vastly different from the studio recording; Akkerman’s guitar work, Van Leer’s yodeling and Pierre Van Der Linden’s drumming are all given a new lease of life.
Collectors will be well-gratified by “Ship of Memories”, while casual listeners will find enough enjoyable material to merit its listening.
Line-up:
- Bert Ruiter / bass
- David Kemper / drums
- Hans Cleuver / drums
- Jan Akkerman / guitar
- Martin Dresden / bass
- Pierre van der Linden / drums
- Thijs Van Leer / keyboards, flute, vocals
Track List:
01. P’s march
02. Can’t believe my eyes
03. Focus V
04. Out of Vesuvius
05. Glider
06. Red sky at night
07. Spoke the Lord Creator
08. Crackers
09. Ship of memories
10. Hocus Pocus (US Single Version)
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