Tuscany

Artist: Renaissance
Label: EMI
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4988006785809
ASIN: B000053VHP

Tuscany

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Tracks:

Lady from Tuscany
Pearls of Wisdom
Eva's Pond
Dear Landseer
In the Sunshine
In My Life
Race
Dolphins Prayer
Life in Brazil
One Thousand Roses

Album Description

Japanese version of 2000 release for UK progressive rock act featuring, Annie Haslam, Michael Dunford, Terrence Sullivan and Mickey Simmonds. 10 tracks including, 'Lady From Tuscany', 'Pearls Of Wisdom' & 'Eva's Pond'. Standard jewel case.

Album Details

Annie Haslam Has Returned to the Fold for this Premiere Edition of a New Renaissance Recording, their First Together in 17 Years, Exclusively from Japan. Details Are Still Sketchy, but Will Be Relayed as They Come In.

Customer Reviews:

An Annie solo album.......2003-05-27

Nice music, terrible lyrics ("Dolphin's Prayer" and "Life in Brazil" are especially excreable), great vocals. If you're expecting something like the early Renaissance, you'll be disappointed. However, if you like Annie's solo albums, you'll like this. It's light, new-age music which doesn't challenge much. Annie's voice is great, but she doesn't show off her range much.

4 stars should be the right rate,evaluating this as a pop lp.......2002-12-12

Well the right rate should be 4 stars, by evaluating this one as a pop album and considering also the voice range and its power too, during the master execution of Annie Haslam !! They are unfortunately within the progressive ring nowadays,and for this reason We are obliged,in a certain way, to judge them as a prog band: in this case my votation is 3 stars, because despite of the excellent execution, the songs aren't always inspired (expecially if We evaluate them in comparison to their prog standards of the past)...otherwise, though, such sensible songs like "Lady from Tuscany", with the fantastic and magical entering of Annie's sublime voice and also "The race", the most progressive effort at the keyboards by Mickey Simmonds, are a strong echo from the past, even if They are not much symphonic-like... this is the lightest side of Annie's compositions, expecially those ones more pop oriented, standing in the same place of works such as those ones of the band "Nevada" , these being quite tepid !! Anyway this comeback is very important and as a Renaissance's fan I hope this effort is the beginning of a new era.

Recommended but absolutely not essential !!

Comme ci, comme ca.......2001-08-29

I hear alot of people crabbing about how how this album is good but it has some weak songs. Every Renaissance album had weak songs. Anybody remember "At the Harbor"? How about "Black Flame"? The weak songs here aren't as forgettable as those and are usually revived by great choruses. Some have found fault with Annie's lyrics, but Jon Camp and "the great" Betty Thatcher were just as capable of putting out rubbish on some of their hokey love songs. Some people have really short memories. If you have a bit of a longer memory, you will see that this album actually fits in well with the rest of the catalog. Surprisingly, the arrangements pick up right where "You" (the last great song by Renaissance, included on the Songs From Renaissance Days compilation) left off. So there are modern touches, but this is a "progressive" band after all, n'est-ce pas? There is plenty of Michael Dunford's acoustic guitar in there for us old fogies to remind us of the old days. Weak spots, but that is par for the course for these guys. Their stengths are pretty strong, though. The album stands up to repeated listening.

It is OK , but a little empty ........2001-04-17

This is my favorite band , I listen to them frecuently since 1976 , BUT this is not what I expected from them , it sound empty and the lyrics are TERRIBLE , Annie must never write the lyrics again .

But to be fair there are some nice moments and at least we can listen to something new from them , I have to agree with one reviewer , this is just like Songs from Renaissance days .

Dear Landseer has the worst lyrics ever from them.

Life in Brazil incorporates a latin touch that sounds terrible.

Hopefully next one will bring back the lost spirit of the early 70's and if Mrs. Thatcher is not around to write the lyrics , Annie should use her voice in lyricless songs.

This is a mellow pop album.......2001-01-22

If you are looking for classical passages that inspired their music in the 70's, forget it. In fact, there is only ONE SONG with an instrumental passage (One Thousand Roses) and it is not very long.

The direction of this album picks up from their 80's work. I would compare this to "Songs From Renaissance Days." This is closer to an Annie Haslam solo album. If you like that, then you will like this. But this is far from "Turn Of The Cards" or even "A Song For All Seasons."

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