Pink Floyd Ilustrado: 1972 Prologue

1972 Prologue - Renaissance

Productores: Miles Copeland & Renaissance.
Ingenieros: Mike Weighell, Mick Glossop.
Grabación: Junio-Julio de 1972.
Estudio: Nova Sound Studios, Londres, U.K.
Discográfica: Sovereign.
N° de catalogo: SVNA 7253.
Diseño de portada, arte: Hipgnosis and Ronchetti & Day.
Fotos: Miles Copeland.

Notas:

Special thanks to Mick Dunford, Dennis Bertrand and Cyclops B. Banjo.
This album is dedicated to Mick Parsons.

Tracklist:

Lado 1.

01 Prologue.
(Michael Dunford) 5:39
02 Kiev.
(Jim McCarty, Betty Thatcher) 7:38
03 Sounds of the Sea.
(Dunford, Thatcher) 7:07

Lado 2.

04 Spare Some Love.
(Dunford, Thatcher) 5:11
05 Bound for Infinity.
(McCarty, Thatcher) 4:23
06 Rajah Khan.
(Dunford) 11:31

Tiempo total: 41:29 minutos.

Vinyl Long Play - Edición U.K:

Discográfica: Sovereign.

N° de catalogo: SVNA 7253.

Portada.

Contraportada.

Contraportada y portada.

Interior carpeta.

Etiquetas lados 1 y 2.

Compact Disc - Edición Alemania 1995:

Discográfica: Repertoire Records.

N° de catalogo: REP 4574-WY.

Portada.

Contraportada.

Disco.

Booklet.

Renaissance:

Annie Haslam: Voz, coros, percusión.

Rob Hendry: Guitarras eléctricas y acústicas, mandolina, coros.

John Tout: Teclados eléctricos y acústicos, coros, arreglos.

Jon Camp: Bajo, voz (track 2), coros.

Terence Sullivan: Batería, percusión.

Otros músicos:

Michael Dunford: Arreglos.

Francis Monkman: Sintetizador VCS3 (track 6).

Letras:

Prologue.

(Michael Dunford)

Instrumental / Vocalización.

Kiev.

(Jim McCarty, Betty Thatcher)

He was a man just a simple man

His thoughts and pleasures were few

His bread he shared with his father

That was the life that he knew

And how the snow fell in Kiev today

And how the wind drove the mourners away

Now there is only one man at the grave of Davorian

And this man's heart is to heavy to pray

Nah Nah ...

Nah nah ...

He was a man just a simple man

Died at the place of his birth

His tombstone shared by the family

A silent place on the earth

An old man stands by the side of the grave

And this man's heart is too heavy to pray

For he is numb with the pain

Of the love that he couldn't share

Until he diead there in Kiev today

Dah dah dah ...

Nah nah nah ...

He was a man just a simple man

Died at the place of his birth

His tombstone shared by the family

A silent place on the earth

An old man stands by the side of the grave

And this man's heart is to heavy to pray

For he is numb with the pain

Of the love that he couldn't share

And two men died there in Kiev today

Lah lah lah ...

Nah nah nah ...

Dah dah dah ...

Dah dah nah ... naaaah

Sounds of the Sea.

(Dunford, Thatcher)

Watching winter pools take me to the sea

Carried by the wind sighing feeling free

On the beach alone seabirds circle there above me

Lonely winter day makes me want to stay

There where I belong

Where I am real, where I can feel sounds of the sea

Rivers flowing down streaming in the sand

Shells are tangled in seaweed drifting strands

Pools of silence stem peace is sounding all around me

Lonely winter day makes me want to stay

There where I belong

Where I am real, where I can feel sounds of the sea

Sun sets slowly and night returns once more

Standing by the surf coasting on the shore

Shadows in the night echoes of the sea inside me

Lonely winter day makes me want to stay

There where I belong

Where I am real, where I can feel sounds of the sea

Spare Some Love.

(Dunford, Thatcher)

Shadows darkness, follows quiet shadows

You walk beside a shadow

Strangers, people passing constant strangers

You walk beside a stranger

Spare some love

Why won't you spare some love?

Share your love

Why don't you share your love?

Sadness finds the lonely silent sadness

Finds them hard with sadness

Seeking growing you will find with seeking

Knowing you are seeking

Spare some love

Why won't you spare some love?

Share your love

Why don't you share your love?

Spare some love

Why won't you spare some love?

Share your love

Why don't you share your love?

Seasons, nature's pattern of the seasons

Changing with the seasons

Loving peace will come to all with loving

Living lives with loving

Spare some love

Why won't you spare some love?

Share your love

Why don't you share your love?

Bound for Infinity.

(McCarty, Thatcher)

Warm sun shining through seagulls wings

Makes mottled patterns upon the sea

Transparent veins in feathered flight

Bound for infinity

I am near you your freedom flight

Your ruffled waters they gleam

Solid coast of grayness

A salty glistening sheen

Ba da da

Ba da da ...

And you will follow the wind forever

And glide the breezes bright stream

One dream bringing the sun splashed

A crystal waters dream

Rajah Khan.

(Dunford)

Instrumenal / Vocalización.

Liner Notes (Re-edición de 1997):

In 1972, the rock world was introduced to a group of artists who would become internationally admired and appreciated for a sound that remains unique to this day.

Prologue was the product of an entirely different "Renaissance" than the world had previously known. The original group was born in 1969 from the ashes of the legendary Yardbirds, when Keith Relf and Jim McCarty chose a very different and ambitious path for their new project. They released two albums of this amalgam of electric rock with classical and jazz influences before they handed the keys over to other players who would not only inherit the legacy, but fashion their own and surpass anyone’s expectations.

At the center of the "new" Renaissance were John Tout and Annie Haslam. An accomplished keyboard player, Tout was a member of the latter edition of the "old" Renaissance. It’s his piano work that gives Prologue its classical and jazz elements. Haslam’s stunning voice became the band’s focal point. She stepped to the microphone and exuded a power and passion that truly became the "soul" of Renaissance.

Michael Dunford had also performed with the band during the latter portion of its initial incarnation, and with Prologue he remained behind the scenes in a non-performing role. One of the three tracks he penned for the album, the simple-yet-soaring "Spare Some Love," was co-written by Cornish poetess Betty Thatcher. Dunford would eventually return to full time status with the group and become one of its guiding forces, and Thatcher would become Dunford’s longtime collaborator and Renaissance’s resident lyricist.

On the eve of the band’s entering the studio to record this album, electric guitar player Mick Parsons passed away and Rob Hendry was asked to take his place. This is the only "classic" Renaissance release where the electric guitar is so prominent. The band chose an acoustic approach on future releases. Jon Camp’s bass and Terry Sullivan’s percussion rounded out the rhythm section.

While the band were still developing the "orchestral" sound for which they were to become renowned, Prologue shows us the beginning of that journey. Their use of classical excerpts for the title track and "Kiev" was not only keeping in the original spirit of the band, but the new songs contained an overall focus and an intensity that was missing in Renaissance’s earlier incarnation.

The album’s gentler and melodic moments, "Sounds of the Sea" and "Bound For Infinity," carry the promise of the sentimental moments that were to come. The Eastern-influenced acid-rocker "Rajah Khan" proves that Renaissance could indeed hold their own in a traditional rock mode.

Prologue was the first many of us heard from Renaissance, and thanks to their passion for the music, we listeners found ourselves on a journey that would last for many years.

- Joe Lynn.

Septiembre de 1997.