The Alan Parsons Song Book is an album to give you the
opportunity to enjoy the music of the Alan Parsons Project
played by
The Alex Bollard Assembly
and to accompany these vital musicians on their trip to the exciting experience
of unlimited sound possibilities.
Alan Parsons
(1949) is one of England's most musical phenomenons [sic].
He was so blown away be [sic] hearing the
Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album in
1967, that he applied for and successfully landed a job at
the famous Abbey Road Studios in London.
Parsons worked
with the Beatles on the "Abbey Road" album and continued
his relationship with Paul McCartney, recording "Wild
Life" and "Red Rose Speedway". He also was nominated for
a Grammy Award for recording Pink Floyd's classic "Dark
Side Of The Moon".
In 1974
Alan Parsons met
Eric Woolfson,
who was soon to function as
Alan Parsons' manager and
shortly thereafter as his musical partner.
Alan and
Eric started
The Alan Parsons Project and their explorations into the
sound and structure of symphonic pop music led to several
wonderful albums during the 1970s and the 1980s.
The Project's first album was
"Tales of Mystery and Imagination"
which was
recorded over a two year period. It met with good, though not overwhelming,
public response.
The
"I Robot" album (1977) was a huge success.
Some artists with new and innovative ideas run out of creative fuel
after a time, but The Alan Parsons Project has continued to
evolve and to take their own music higher and further.
Among the Project's best albums are
"Eve" (1979),
"The Turn Of A Friendly Card" (1980)
"Eye In The Sky" (1982),
"Vulture Culture" (1985), and
"Gaudi" (1987).
All pieces in this "Alan Parsons Song Book" are spellbinding,
mindbending, hypnotic. With all their variety - and there is
a huge range of dynamics in the songs, written by
Parsons and
Woolfson
- there is always a sense of unity and peace, nature
and silence and personal thought. It is almost as if
Alan and
Eric had set out to produce
only classics, masterpieces - and
calmly went ahead and did just that.
The wonderfully rich, vibrant sound to
The Alex Bollard Assembly
never had more intrinsically superb material to
apply itself to than on this compact disc. Together the 19
highlights from the Song Book of
Alan Parsons form a
collection of tunes that are indisputably outstanding.
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