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░ ██ ██ Artist: Renaissance ██ ██
▓ █░░ ■█ Album: DeLane Lea Studios 1973 █■ ░░█
■ █▓▀ █ Year: 2015 █ ▀▓█ ░
█ ▓ Rel. Date: 2016-01-13 ▓ █
▒ ▒ Genre: Symphonic Rock ▒ ▒
█▄ ░ Label: Purple Pyramid ░ ▄█
░ █▄ ░ Source: CD ░ ▄█
░ █▓ Type: Album ▓█ ░
▓ █ Quality: VBR, 44.1kHz, Joint Stereo █ ░ ▓
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█ This 'live in the recording studio" recording █
█ sessions recorded at the celebrated De Lane Lea █
█ U.K. recoding studios for radio broadcast on an █
█ unstated radio station in 1973, was performed █
█ right on the heels of Renaissance finishing their █
█ second studio album containing the mark II "Annie █
█ Haslam" lineup. █
█ Recorded in the company of both friends and █
█ family, the group seems usually enthusiastic and █
█ performs the material from Ashes are Burning █
█ technically perfect, which they do well without █
█ any orchestral support. █
█ This album stays close to the Ashes are Burning █
█ numbers and includes a live version, for the first █
█ time that I'm of aware of, the beautiful █
█ melancholy At The Harbor. Another rare gem █
█ includes another rarely performed live song, █
█ Prolouge's Sounds of the Sea which the band █
█ executed flawlessly. █
█ AAB starwarts include the evergreen Can You Hear █
█ Understand? along with the killer closing track █
█ with Andy Powell reprising his lead electric █
█ guitar role that contributed to the studio █
█ version. British folk stalwart Al Stewart also █
█ adds backing vocals this epic closer. █
█ My only and really subsequent complaint regarding █
█ this album is that it seems to be "booted" from █
█ what has now become common practice to re-issue █
█ source tape copies after the original owners of █
█ the producing radio stations have folded and █
█ become public domain. The sound quality is a bit █
█ thin but passable as is common from masters █
█ originating from this type of source tape, and as █
█ usual, has a louder than normal level of type hiss █
█ on a couple of songs. █
█ As there are no copyright or copyright pending █
█ notations in the liner notes, this is probably the █
█ case. █
█ The tape is also mastered from what sounds like a █
█ multi generation that has some loud extraneous █
█ noise for few seconds near the coda of Ashes are █
█ Burning. █
█ Not a bad album per se, but there are of course █
█ other 'live in the studio albums' that are much █
█ better like the now out of print Renaissance At █
█ The BBC. If you see the BBC Sessions album for a █
█ good price, grab it and run like hell. █
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░ 1. Can You Understand? 10:10 ░
░ 2. Let it Grow 5:40 ░
░ 3. Sounds of the Sea 6:11 ░
░ 4. Carpet of the Sun 3:38 ░
░ 5. At the Harbour 6:57 ░
░ 6. Ashes are Burning 11:52 ░
░ 7. Prologue 6:46 ░
░ 51:14 ░
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