Moving Waves

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presented the inverse, with Akkerman assembling a new rhythm section of drummer Pierre van der Linden (a childhood friend and former bandmate) and younger bassist Cyril Havermans.

The Focus sound of Hammond organ, guitar and flute complete with yodelling and Thijs's vocal acrobatics are just so different and combine to produce one of the best and most underrated groups of the 1970s.It’s worth noting that most Focus “greatest hits” compilations are larded with tracks from Moving Waves ; pound for pound, it’s the group’s deepest collection of memorable cuts.

According to BBC Radio DJ Bob Harris, demand was so great for Focus LPs by 1972 that the band’s British label, Polydor, simultaneously ran vinyl at all five of its record plants around the clock. The track is in fifteen distinct sections, and the suite opens with an uncredited melody from the opera L'Orfeo by Monteverdi. Hocus Pocus is nothing short of awesome, featuring some wonderfully manic yodelling by Thijs van Leer (you MUST watch the video to get the full effect). Vote up content that is on-topic, within the rules/guidelines, and will likely stay relevant long-term. The latter theory is demonstrably false, which makes me wish the folks in their commune had traded Tarkus for a copy of The Crazy World of Arthur Brown.

No one in English and America, and I’m including Frank Zappa, could have created a song so utterly off the wall. Moving Waves", a piano and vocal solo by van Leer, features lyrics by Sufi singer, poet, and teacher Inayat Khan.

After releasing their debut album Focus Plays Focus (1970), the group suffered a setback when Akkerman requested that van Leer fire Dresden and Cleuver so his former Brainbox bandmate, drummer Pierre van der Linden, could join the band.It is the fate of a select few bands to conquer the world with one song of brilliant Hieronymus Bosch weirdness, then go on to become yet another cult band. The music will pull you under and raise you back up, it will chill you with it's roaring winds then caress you with it's gentle warmth. Tommy , come buona parte della suite del resto , raggiunge dei picchi molto elevati a livello artistico e musicale in questa esplosione (o eruzione come titolo della suite vuole) di crude emozioni , musica e assoluto godimento sonoro per la gioia dell'ascoltatore che nonostante si fosse approcciato alla band con un po di scetticismo (vuoi perché non sono inglesi , vuoi perché ci si senta già sicuri di aver ascoltato il meglio del panorama prog con i giganti del genere) ne uscirà con un'opinione del tutto diversa , ammesso che questo ascoltatore non avesse il cerume nelle orecchie per tutto il tempo. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The side’s closing track is “Focus II,” an exact replica in miniature of “Hocus Pocus,” Focus’ theory being (I can only assume) that there’s no sin in flogging a dead horse so long as the horse in question won the Kentucky Derby while alive.