Band: Kaliedoscope
Album: White Faced Lady
Year: 1972
Country: UK
Genre: prog rock
Format: Lossless (FLAC+CUE+LOG+COVER)

Самый амбициозный проект за всю свою карьеру - двойной альбом, задуманный как рок-опера и получивший название White Faced Lady. К несчастью, из-за закулисных интриг он так и не был издан, что послужило одной из причин распада группы, однако в 1991 году появился на виниле под именем Kaleidoscope. И не такое бывает...Альбом замечательный, а сам материал навеян трагической судьбой Мэрилин Монро



Tracklist:

01. Overture
02. Broken Mirrors
03. Angels Song: Dear Elvis Presley
04. Nursey Nursey
05. Small Song-Heaven In The Back Row
06. Burning Bright
07. The Matchseller
08. The Coronation Of The Fledgling
09. All Hail To The Hero
10. White Faced Lady
11. Freefall
12. Standing
13. Diary Song: The Indian Head
14. Song From Jon
15. Long Way Down
16. The Locket
17. Picture With Conversation
18. Epitaph: Angel



The origin of White Faced Lady is quite interesting: over the spring and summer of 1970, the band's two songwriters -- Peter Daltrey and Eddie Pumer -- had noticed that quite a few of their new songs seemed to have a similar theme. They began shaping these tracks into what turned out to be an ambitious and conceptual pop opera, taking its name from a pivotal track, "White Faced Lady." The narrative followed the tragic life of a troubled movie starlet named Angel, desperate for both love and fame but finding neither. The story was said to have been based loosely on the tragic life of Marilyn Monroe. Musically, White Faced Lady was less British pop-like than their earlier recordings, as the band was then becoming more "renaissance/progressive" overall, even as it revealed they may have been straining beyond the scope of their sweeping orchestration vision. The first part of White Faced Lady had a wistful, somewhat light air about it, with acoustic guitars, flutes, full orchestra, and choir giving way to more complex and cluttered arrangements that sometimes blended in sitar ("Song for Jon") and other psychedelic elements along the way. Without a label's backing, however, the band had to invest their own money into the recordings. Later, their longtime producer, former Radio One DJ David Symonds, signed a leasing deal with a Vertigo exec who agreed to pay them upon delivery of the album. The sessions were continued the following spring at Sound Techniques in London's Chelsea district. Toward the end of the sessions, the band found out that their leasing deal was off, so this ornate and abstruse album was shelved for 20 years. It wasn't officially released, in a complete form, until 1991, when the band issued the vinyl version on their own Kaleidoscope label. Both albums were later collected on CD as Kaleidoscope: The Fairfield Parlour Years.





Band:

Peter Daltrey - вокал
Eddy Pumer - гитара, клавшиные
Steve Clark - бас-гитара, флейта
Dan Bridgman - ударные

Ранее в доке:

URL - R.K. Frimen