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- 1 Guide Vocal / Turn It on Again 5:49
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Charterhouse School Choirchoir
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William Llewellynmusical director
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Daniel Phillipssoprano
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- 2 Mad Man Moon 9:08
- 3 Entangled 5:16
- 4 Medley: Los Jigos - 3:48
- - Duke's Travel
- - Fountain of Salmacis
- - The Knife
- - Unquiet Slumbers
- - Los Jigos
- 5 Follow You, Follow Me 4:12
- 6 I Know What I Like 3:50
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flute
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- 7 Medley: Snowbound - 11:03
- - Snowbound
- - Scenes From a Night's Dream
- - Say It's Alright Joe
- 8 Horizons 2:41
- 9 Can-Utility and the Coastliners 5:48
- 10 Undertow / Supper's Ready 6:13
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Charterhouse School Choirchoir
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William Llewellynmusical director
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Daniel Phillipssoprano
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- Total length: 57:48
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Perfectly listenable and inoffensive light music versions of Genesis songs. The orchestra is frequently augmented with bass and drums, and on some tracks with guitar from Steve Hackett himself, but this never really approaches anything like the excitement of rock music. The tracklist is mostly drawn from Genesis's softer and poppier material, and leans heavily on the first four post-Gabriel albums. Decent background music, but not really something you'd want to listen to unless you already know and love the originals.
The first and last tracks feature a choir from Charterhouse School, the boarding school where Genesis was formed (Banks, Gabriel, Rutherford, Phillips, and original drummer Chris Stewart were all students there), which is a cute touch. Ian Anderson provides guest flute on "I Know What I Like," in a prog crossover that was probably pretty exciting at the time; Hackett went on to play on the orchestral Floyd album for Palmer.
The first and last tracks feature a choir from Charterhouse School, the boarding school where Genesis was formed (Banks, Gabriel, Rutherford, Phillips, and original drummer Chris Stewart were all students there), which is a cute touch. Ian Anderson provides guest flute on "I Know What I Like," in a prog crossover that was probably pretty exciting at the time; Hackett went on to play on the orchestral Floyd album for Palmer.
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No! It's not a shopping center music!
It's Genesis under orchestral arrangements: it is terrific!
David (now Mrs Dee Palmer) is well known for his contribution on the Jethro Tull albums of the 70's: from "Too old to rock'n roll" to "Stormwatch", he made the delightful orchestral arrangements. David Palmer also made classical albums of the big names in the progressive world: Pink Floyd, Yes, Jethro Tull and Queen.
Now here he creates a very addictive, accessible & catchy symphonic version of major Genesis tracks like "Horizons", "Can-utility & coastliners", "Entangled" and "Mad man moon". There are omnipresent VERY participating strings and horns arrangements played by the London Symphony Orchestra! The tour de force is the DELIGHTFUL medley of "Duke's travel", "Fountain of Salmacis", "Knife" and "Unquiet slumbers...": the performance is speechless, and it ends with a beautiful, romantic waltz version of "Unquiet slumbers...": only this medley is worth the price of the whole album! "Horizons" and "Entangled" have beautiful orchestral arrangements! The music also contains electric & acoustic guitars played by STEVE HACKETT himself, drums, flutes played by IAN ANDERSON, some keyboards, bass and percussions. The only weak point is maybe the lack of low frequencies (bottom).
Palmer does not forget the Collins years, interpreting the easy listening tracks "Follow you follow me", "Turn it on again", "Snowbound", Say it's alright Joe" and "Scenes from a night's dream".
The album finishes with the beautiful "Undertow" and the finale of "SUPPER'S READY", full of powerful strings & horns arrangements: a charming imperfect young choir will make your jaw to drop on the floor!
If you don't like classical music, then this record is NOT for you!
It's Genesis under orchestral arrangements: it is terrific!
David (now Mrs Dee Palmer) is well known for his contribution on the Jethro Tull albums of the 70's: from "Too old to rock'n roll" to "Stormwatch", he made the delightful orchestral arrangements. David Palmer also made classical albums of the big names in the progressive world: Pink Floyd, Yes, Jethro Tull and Queen.
Now here he creates a very addictive, accessible & catchy symphonic version of major Genesis tracks like "Horizons", "Can-utility & coastliners", "Entangled" and "Mad man moon". There are omnipresent VERY participating strings and horns arrangements played by the London Symphony Orchestra! The tour de force is the DELIGHTFUL medley of "Duke's travel", "Fountain of Salmacis", "Knife" and "Unquiet slumbers...": the performance is speechless, and it ends with a beautiful, romantic waltz version of "Unquiet slumbers...": only this medley is worth the price of the whole album! "Horizons" and "Entangled" have beautiful orchestral arrangements! The music also contains electric & acoustic guitars played by STEVE HACKETT himself, drums, flutes played by IAN ANDERSON, some keyboards, bass and percussions. The only weak point is maybe the lack of low frequencies (bottom).
Palmer does not forget the Collins years, interpreting the easy listening tracks "Follow you follow me", "Turn it on again", "Snowbound", Say it's alright Joe" and "Scenes from a night's dream".
The album finishes with the beautiful "Undertow" and the finale of "SUPPER'S READY", full of powerful strings & horns arrangements: a charming imperfect young choir will make your jaw to drop on the floor!
If you don't like classical music, then this record is NOT for you!
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Catalog
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3 Jun 2021
18 Jun 2020
14 Aug 2019
6 Aug 2019
1 Jun 2019
3 Feb 2019
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1
Guide Vocal / Turn It on Again
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2
Mad Man Moon
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3
Entangled
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4
Medley:
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5
Follow You, Follow me
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6
I Know What I Like
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7
Medley:
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8
Horizons
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9
Can-Utility and the Coastliners
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10
Undertow / Supper's Ready
29 Jan 2018
15 Jan 2018
5 Dec 2017
29 May 2016
24 Feb 2016
21 Jun 2015
22 Oct 2014
22 Jun 2014
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