Focus - 50 Years: Anthology 1970-1976 - 9CD+2DVD Box Set
Termék leírás:
A Focus holland rockzenekar, amit Thijs van Leer (a zenekar egyetlen állandó tagja), a klasszikus zenészből rockerré vált orgonista/fuvolás/gitáros/szájharmonikás alapított.
A zenekar nyolc aktív éve alatt nyolc albumot adtak ki, amelyek meghatározó jelentőségűek a roctörténetben, többek közt Ian Anderson és a Jethro Tull zenéjének 1970-től változó stílusára. Stílusuk teljességgel meghatározhatatlan, kőkemény hard rock elemek keverednek jazz-rockkal, sőt klasszikus zenével, legnagyobb részben instrumentális módon.
* Previously unreleased
** Previously unreleased on cd
CD1 – FOCUS PLAYS FOCUS / IN AND OUT OF FOCUS
Original release: 1970
- Focus (instrumental) 9.46
- Why Dream 3.56
- Happy Nightmare (Mescaline) 3.56
- Anonymus 7.01
- Black Beauty 3.05
- Sugar Island 3.02
- Focus (vocal) 2.43
BONUS TRACKS
- House Of The King 2.23
- Eruption (Live Lanx 1970) 37.31 *
CD2 – FOCUS II / MOVING WAVES
Original release: 1971
- Hocus Pocus 6.41
- Le Clochard (Bread) 1.59
- Janis 3.06
- Moving Waves 2.41
- Focus II 4.03
- Eruption (Orfeus – Answer – Orfeus – Answer – Pupilla – Tommy – Pupilla – Answer – The Bridge – Euridice – Dayglow – Endless Road – Answer – Orfeus – Euridice) 23.07
BONUS TRACKS
- Hocus Pocus (single version) 3.27 **
- Tommy (single version) 3.25
- Focus I (Live Texel 1971) 14.11 *
CD3 – FOCUS 3
Original release: 1972
- Round Goes The Gossip… 5.16
- Love Remembered 2.48
- Sylvia 3.32
- Carnival Fugue 6.07
- Focus III 6.05
- Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! 14.03
- Anonymus II (Part 1) 19.33 **
- Anonymus II (Conclusion) 7.34 **
- Elspeth Of Nottingham 3.13
BONUS TRACKS
- Sylvia (single version) 3.32 **
- Love Remembered (single version) 2.49 **
- Hocus Pocus (US single version) 3.25
CD4 – AT THE RAINBOW
Original release: 1973
- Focus III 3.52
- Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! 11.26
- Focus II 4.24
- Eruption (Orfeus – Answer – Orfeus – Answer – Pupilla – Tommy – Pupilla) 8.40
- Hocus Pocus 8.27
- Sylvia 2.47
- Hocus Pocus – reprise 2.48
BONUS TRACKS
- P’s March (original mix – single version) 3.27 *
- Ship Of Memories (original mix) 4.40 *
- P’s March (original mix – full version) 4.03 *
CD5 – HAMBURGER CONCERTO
Original release: 1974
- Delitiæ Musicæ 1.13
- Harem Scarem 5.50
- La Cathédrale de Strasbourg 4.57
- Birth 7.45
- Hamburger Concerto (Starter – Rare – Medium I – Medium II – Well Done – One For The Road) 20.23
BONUS TRACKS
- Early Birth 2.56
- Harem Scarem (single version) 3.08 **
- Birth (alternate mix) 7.43 **
- Harem Scarem (alternate mix) 5.51 **
CD6 – MOTHER FOCUS
Original release: 1975
- Mother Focus 3.05
- I Need A Bathroom 3.04
- Bennie Helder 3.33
- Soft Vanilla 3.04
- Hard Vanilla 2.35
- Tropic Bird 2.45
- Focus IV 3.57
- Someone’s Crying… What! 3.19
- All Together… Oh That! 3.41
- No Hang Ups 2.56
- My Sweetheart 3.38
- Father Bach 1.33
BONUS TRACKS
- Focus IV (rough mix) 4.02 *
- Bennie Helder (rough mix) 3.45 *
- Vanilla (rough mix) 5.42 *
- Mother Focus (rough mix) 3.02 *
- All Together… Oh That! (rough mix) 3.42 *
- My Sweetheart (rough mix) 3.46 *
- Someone’s Crying… What! (rough mix) 3.18 *
- Studio 55 Jam 6.56 *
CD7 – SHIP OF MEMORIES
Original release: 1976
- P’s March 4.48
- Can’t Believe My Eyes 5.22
- Focus V 3.02
- Out Of Vesuvius 5.51
- Glider 4.40
- Red Sky At Night 5.52
- Spoke The Lord Creator 2.33
- Crackers 2.42
- Ship Of Memories 1.47BONUS TRACKS
- Elektrisch Levenslicht (Neerlands Hoop in Bange Dagen) 3.09
- The Shrine Of God (Ramses Shaffy with group Focus) 3.39
- Watch The Ugly People (Ramses Shaffy with group Focus) 2.19
- House Of The King (rough mix version 1) 2.27 *
- House Of The King (rough mix version 2) 2.26 *
- Focus III (unreleased single version) 4.37 *
- Hocus Pocus (US single version – takes 14-17) 7.12 *
- Glider (single version) 3.28 **
- P’s March (single version) 4.07 **
- O Avondrood 5.10 **
- Crackers (vocal version) 2.31 **
CD8 – FOCUS BBC 1973
- Focus III 3.54 *
- Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! 12.09 *
- Focus II 5.06 *
- Anonymus II 23.30 *
- Focus I 4.27 *
- Hocus Pocus 7.38 *
- Sylvia – Hocus Pocus (reprise) 5.52 *
Produced and recorded by BBC Radio 1 In Concert, Paris Theatre, London, 17th January 1973.
CD9 – LIVE 1971 – 1975
- Eruption (Live Rotterdam 1971) 46.37 *
- Birth 11.38 *
- Improvisation #1 8.35 *
- House Of The King 3.02 *
- Improvisation #2 6.23 *
- Hocus Pocus 3.20 *
Track 1: Recorded by AVRO radio at the Newport Jazz Festival, Grote Zaal, De Doelen, Rotterdam, 29th October 1971. Track 2: Recorded at the Festival Hall, Osaka, 2nd July 1974. Track 3-6: Recorded at Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, 21st June 1975.
DVD1 – FOCUS SIGHT & SOUND VOL. 1
- BBC The Old Grey Whistle Test (May 1972) 24.26 *
- BBC The Old Grey Whistle Test (December 1972) 16.01 *
- Focus At The Rainbow (May 1973) 47.28 *
- BBC In Concert (April 1974) 36.18 *
DVD2 – FOCUS SIGHT & SOUND VOL. 2
- NOS Van Gewest Tot Gewest (July 1970) 1.54 *
- NOS Uit De Kunst (June 1972) 3.51 *
- RTE The Music Makers: Focus at the Stadium (November 1973) 48.00 *
- VARA Nederpopzien (December 1973) 34.22 *
- AVRO Toppop: Harem Scarem (May 1974) 3.01 *
- AVRO Toppop: O Avondrood (June 1976) 4.51 *
- Veronica Goud van Oud (April 1990) 16.44 *
- NCRV Classic Albums: Moving Waves (June 1997) 50.02 *