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Empire (featuring Peter Banks) - Mark 1 (1995)

Posted By: popsakov
Empire (featuring Peter Banks) - Mark 1 (1995)

Empire (featuring Peter Banks) - Mark 1 (1995)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 274 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 127 Mb
Full Scans | 00:48:24 | RAR 5% Recovery
Progressive Rock | One Way Records #OW 31443

Empire was originally intended to be a new line-up of Flash. The nucleus of the band were guitarist Peter Banks and singer Sydney Foxx. The band never got a record deal and cd's were released in 1995-1996 by One Way Records. The music was recorded in the seventies.

Recorded in 1974, this has a few fillers, and it occasionally falls into the prog habit of going six minutes when four would do, but it's still mystifying that this perfectly solid collection would go missing for so long. Empire's sound bridges the West Coast funk of Cold Blood and the jazzy guitar of early Yes, and it works surprisingly well. The charging "Out of Our Hands" has some clever guitar effects thrown in, and a startling moment where Foxx's vocals rise up like a kettle on the boil. Magnusson's keyboards lend a velvety smoothness to the lovelorn "More Than Words," and the country twang of "Hear My Voice On the Radio" is so appropriately radio-friendly that it's shocking that it wasn't released as a single.

Empire had its origins in the demise of the band Flash – in fact, for a short while its name was simply Flash Mk. II. Guitarist Peter Banks, formerly of Yes, emerged from management disputes of Flash to pull together a band of jam-mates in the loosely structured ZOX and the Radar Boys. These jams had featured Phil Collins behind the drums, though his commitment to Genesis meant that he could only sit in on a few tracks of the 1974 recording sessions for the newly named Empire.

The sound of Empire had distinct progressive elements, as one might expect with both Banks and Collins around. Their recordings, though, were marked by a willingness to dip into a wide variety of musical genres, from blues to country blues. The band was also unusual among progressive bands in being fronted by a woman. Although Renaissance had the ethereal voice of Annie Haslam, Empire's Sydney Foxx provided a notable counterpoint to the band's complexity by with her strong bluesy vocals, not unlike Lydia Pense or even Janis Joplin at times.

Empire's work brought little success, though. Despite some anticipation among the pop music press, Banks and Foxx were unable to land distribution for their work either in Britain or the U.S. Still clinging to hope, the group recorded two more albums in the '70s but to no avail. It was to be two decades before One Way released them on CD; and while not exactly lost classics, the albums are of a high enough quality that it's unfortunate that the band was unable to get any footing before its breakup in 1980.

~ Paul Collins, All Music

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Track List:

01. Out Of Our Hands [5:38]
02. More Than Words [7:16]
03. Someone Who Cares [7:04]
04. For A Lifetime [2:42]
05. Hear My Voice On The Radio [3:26]
06. Shooting Start [12:35]
07. Sky At Night [9:42]

Personnel:
Peter Banks - Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals
Sydney Fox - Lead Vocals
Jakob Magnusson - Keyboards, Vocals
John Giblin - Bass, Vocals
Preston Ross-Heyman - Drums

Plus help from:
Sam Gopal - Tabla
Phil Collins - Drums, Backing Vocals

Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011

EAC extraction logfile from 22. August 2018, 21:23

Banks, Peter / Empire: Mark I

Used drive : PLEXTOR DVDR PX-740A Adapter: 0 ID: 0

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 618
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000

Used output format : Internal WAV Routines
Sample format : 44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo


TOC of the extracted CD

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7 | 38:41.55 | 9:42.30 | 174130 | 217809


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Peak level 100.0 %
Extraction speed 8.3 X
Range quality 100.0 %
Test CRC FACCF1C4
Copy CRC FACCF1C4
Copy OK

No errors occurred


AccurateRip summary

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All tracks accurately ripped

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All thanks go to Juergen

>>> Peter Banks in my Blog <<<

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