No earthly connection Deluxe edition (2016)/ Rick Wakeman

"Released in 1976, just as prog rock's hold in the popular imagine was starting to slip, "No Earthly Connection" is, comparatively, a streamlined album by Rick Wakeman. It is not as elaborate and ambitious as its immediate predecessors "Henry VIII", "Journey To The Centre Of The Earth", and "King Arthur & The Knights Of The Round Table", and only the length of a single album, with the first half devoted to the half-hour suite "Music Reincarnate" and the second splitting the difference between two songs, "The Prisoner" and "The Lost Cycle." Wakeman shows some slight hints of funk infatuation here -- "The Warning" works out its clavinet songs, with its second part buttressed by brass -- and the entirety of the "Music Reincarnate" side is a bit more forceful than expected in both its rhythms and attack. The other two songs have an element of breathing room." (S.T. Erlewine, Allmusic) Op disc 2 horen we een concert uit 1976, met de helft van "No Eartly Connection" aangevuld met delen uit "Arthur" en "Henry VIII".

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