Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Vinyl)
The debut album by Emerson, Lake and Palmer, the 1970 'supergroup', is arguably their best, catching the band before they became caught up in the pretentious musical excesses that brought progressive rock down.
Keith Emerson was a classically trained keyboard virtuoso who's vision was a melding of classical music with rock. It didn't always work and he eventually lost his way, but on this record, backed by the excellent drumming of Carl Palmer and Greg Lake's (ex King Crimson) vocals and bass playing, his vision largely holds true.
Keith Emerson (RIP) acquired one of the first Moog Synthesisers in the UK and befriended Robert Moog. The pair worked together to update and upgrade Keith’s synthesiser in order to meet his on-stage and studio requirements and Emerson, Lake and Palmer features one of the first improvised Moog synthesizer solos ever recorded on "Lucky Man".
To get some idea of where Keith Emerson was coming from - "The Barbarian" is an arrangement of Béla Bartók's 1911 piano piece "Allegro Barbaro", while "Knife-Edge" is based on the first movement of Leoš Janáček's orchestral piece "Sinfonietta", with an instrumental middle section that includes an extended quotation from the "Allemande" of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Its not surprising with aspirations such as these that the Prog Rock world came down in a crumbling heap a few years later with Punk's demand for a return to basics, however, this album stands as a lively, ambitious and successful debut, exploring new sounds and showcasing all three members' considerable musical talents
The album, which reached the Top 20 in America and got to number four in England, found the group at its least pretentious and most creative peak. Debatably, it was downhill for ELP from here on.
Vinyl, LP, Reissue, Remastered
Tracklist:
A1 The Barbarian
A2 Take A Pebble
A3 Knife-Edge
The Three Fates:
B1a Clotho
B1b Lachesis
B1c Atropos
B2 Tank
B3 Lucky Man
The debut album by Emerson, Lake and Palmer, the 1970 'supergroup', is arguably their best, catching the band before they became caught up in the pretentious musical excesses that brought progressive rock down.
Keith Emerson was a classically trained keyboard virtuoso who's vision was a melding of classical music with rock. It didn't always work and he eventually lost his way, but on this record, backed by the excellent drumming of Carl Palmer and Greg Lake's (ex King Crimson) vocals and bass playing, his vision largely holds true.
Keith Emerson (RIP) acquired one of the first Moog Synthesisers in the UK and befriended Robert Moog. The pair worked together to update and upgrade Keith’s synthesiser in order to meet his on-stage and studio requirements and Emerson, Lake and Palmer features one of the first improvised Moog synthesizer solos ever recorded on "Lucky Man".
To get some idea of where Keith Emerson was coming from - "The Barbarian" is an arrangement of Béla Bartók's 1911 piano piece "Allegro Barbaro", while "Knife-Edge" is based on the first movement of Leoš Janáček's orchestral piece "Sinfonietta", with an instrumental middle section that includes an extended quotation from the "Allemande" of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Its not surprising with aspirations such as these that the Prog Rock world came down in a crumbling heap a few years later with Punk's demand for a return to basics, however, this album stands as a lively, ambitious and successful debut, exploring new sounds and showcasing all three members' considerable musical talents
The album, which reached the Top 20 in America and got to number four in England, found the group at its least pretentious and most creative peak. Debatably, it was downhill for ELP from here on.
Vinyl, LP, Reissue, Remastered
Tracklist:
A1 The Barbarian
A2 Take A Pebble
A3 Knife-Edge
The Three Fates:
B1a Clotho
B1b Lachesis
B1c Atropos
B2 Tank
B3 Lucky Man
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