Friday, August 30, 2024

The Alan Parsons Project




Artist:  The Alan Parsons Project
Origin:  UK
Genre:  Progressive Rock, Art Rock, Pop Rock, Soft Rock

Original line-up:

Alan Parsons:  Keyboards, Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Vocals, Flute, Engineering, Production
Eric Woolfson:  Keyboards, Vocals, Executive Production

The Alan Parsons Project was a British Progressive Rock Band, between 1975 and 1990, consisting of Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson, and surrounded by a number of session musicians.  Alan Parsons had acted as assistant engineer on The Bestles' Albums:  Abbey Road and Let It Be, and engineered Pink Floyd's Album The Dark Side Of The Moon,  his career as a Producer and Engineer including Pilot, Steve Harley, Al Stewart, The Hollies, Ambrosia, John Miles and Steve Harley.  In 1982 the band's album Eye In The Sky was their greatest success and in UK chart in Top Ten on the Pop charts and went to Platinum.































Title:  Pyramid (Limited Edition) (2024)
Genre:  Progressive Rock, Art Rock, Pop Rock, Soft Rock
Label:  Cooking Vinyl
Rating:   *****

Format:  LP

Tracks:

Side One:

 1.  Voyager (2:24)
 2.  What Goes Up... (3:31)
 3.  The Eagle Will Rise Again (4:20)
 4.  One More River (4:15)
 5.  Can't Take It With You (5:06)

Side Two:

 1.  In The Lap Of The Gods (5:27)
 2.  Pyramania (2:45)
 3.  Hyper-Gamma-Spaces (4:19)
 4.  Shadow Of A Lonely Man (5:34)

Personnel:

Alan Parsons:  Producer, Engineer
Eric Woolfson:  Keyboards, Executive Production
Duncan Mackay:  Keyboards
David Paton:  Bass, Vocals
Ian Barrison:  Electric & Acoustic Guitars
Stuart Elliot:  Drums, Percussion
Phil Kenzie:  Saxophone Solo on Track 1/4
Dean Ford, Colin Blunstone Lenny Zakatek, John Miles, Jack Harris:  Vocals

The English Chorale:  Choir
Bob Howes:  Choirmaster

Pyramid is the third studio album by The Alan Parsons Project, originally released on May 1978 by Arista Records, remastered and reissued on August 23, 2024 by Cooking Vinyl.  Limited Edition 180 Gram Heavyweight Clear Vinyl.






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