Anthology

Artist: Russ Ballard
Label: Renaissance
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 630428016828
EAN: 0630428016828
ASIN: B000005NNU

Release Date: 1996-11-19

Anthology

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Tracks:

Love Goes On
Golden Thread
Love Is All
Mr. Pine
Face Of Yesterday
Past Orbits Of Dust

Customer Reviews:

Get Innocents and Illusions instead.......2005-02-26

If you don't already own the first Renaissance album, then get Innocents and Illusions instead. It is a great deal. It is the first two Renaissance albums plus 6 bonus tracks.

If you already own the albums, this is not worth buying for the bonus tracks. The bonus tracks are 2 to 5 minutes long. Some were demos recorded in a home studio. I don't think any of them feature the complete band. These bonus tracks have been released before on a number of different albums.

This album should only rate 4 stars, by itself. (I accidently put down 5 stars and Amazon won't let me change it). A couple of the tracks are not very good, especially the opening track which sounds like a very dated British pop tune. But, the 14 minute Orbits of Dust might be the best thing Renaissance has ever done.

The sound quality on Illusion is not very good. It has a loud tape hiss that is noticible between tracks and can be made out on some of the quieter passages.

This is the first Renaissance, which has a completely different personnel than the more famous Annie Haslam version. The band was a spin off from the Yardbirds. The band was a cohesive unit when it recorded the first album, which was released worldwide. Kings and Queens got mild FM radio play in the US. The second album, called Illusion, had a sordid history, with band members coming and going. It never got full release and was very hard to find at times.

The music on this CD is very similar to the newer version of Renaissance, but has even more art rock and classical music orientations. The harpsicord is featured a lot, but there are no synthesizers. At the same time, the sound is a little rougher and a little edgier than the newer Renaissance.

Renaissance was started by Keith Relf and Jim McCarthy from the Yardbirds. This is the band that gave Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Pages their starts. Dazed and Confused was originally done by the Yardbirds.

During the recording of Illusion, the band broke apart and some members of the newer Renaissance joined. Jim McCarthy continued doing projects under the name Illusion. In 2002, all the original members of Renaissance (except Keith Relf) got back together and recorded a CD under the name Renaissance Illusion.

Kieth Relf went on to form a band called Armageddon, which was famous for the song Silver Tightrope. They played a unique mixture of blues and hard rock with some progressive elements thrown in. Some of the bonus tracks on this CD set sound more like Armageddon than Renaissance. Armageddon disbanded after the first album because Relf was electrocuted while playing his guitar in the bathtube (no joke).

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Haunted Heart ~ Eddie Higgins

Further Conversations with Myself ~ Bill Evans

Leppardmania: A Tribute to Def Leppard ~ Various Artists

Rise & Shine ~ Adicts

Heart of the Rainforest ~ Primal Instinct

Best of Fado Portugese ~ Francisco Fialho

Young Star of Gottuvadyam ~ N. Ravikiran

Osz Az Ido: Blues for Transylvania ~ Muzsikas

Gustavo ~ Gustavo

Big Time Changes ~ Seikima-II