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Renaissance - Azure D'Or (2022 Remaster) (1979/2022)

Posted By: Rtax
Date: 15 Dec 2022 11:38:04
Renaissance - Azure D'Or (2022 Remaster) (1979/2022)

Renaissance - Azure D'Or (2022 Remaster) (1979/2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 770 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 276 MB
1:54:20 | Prog Rock | Label: Esoteric

The next to last album by Renaissance as a full-time, ongoing group, A Song for All Seasons was a courageous effort in its time, wearing its classically based progressive rock colors proudly on its sleeve amid the punk and new wave booms that were sweeping across the musical landscape. Vocalist Annie Haslam and pianist John Tout generated some memorably beautiful moments, ably supported by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor/arrangerHarry Rabinowitz. The first two tracks, "Opening Out" and "The Day of the Dreamer," ultimately promise a little more in the way of classically based lyricism than the album delivered; and the harder rocking moments are only fitfully interesting, despite the best efforts of bassist Jon Camp and guitarist Michael Dunford.

But the pop tracks here, most notably "Northern Lights," "Back Home Once Again," and the acoustic guitar-driven "Closer Than Yesterday" are appealing on a level that was mostly new to the group. A few more numbers like those, interspersed with the more ambitious works on this album, and Renaissance might have found that wider following that always eluded them. But ultimately the album pulls in one or two too many directions at once, especially on the moody "She Is Love." For a finale, the title track, "A Song for All Seasons," (clocking in at almost 11 minutes) plunges us back into heavily orchestrated art-rock head-first and several yards deep, and succeeds better than most of the group's ambitious suites and song cycles of the second half of the '70s. The album has some gorgeous moments, but coming out at the end of the '70s, it was timed about as poorly as any LP ever issued, in terms of finding an audience – which doesn't stop modern audiences from savoring its appeal or those moments, three or four decades on.

Tracklist
CD1
1. Jekyll and Hyde [2022 Remaster] (4:44)
2. The Winter Tree [2022 Remaster] (3:06)
3. Only Angels Have Wings [2022 Remaster] (3:46)
4. Golden Key [2022 Remaster] (5:18)
5. Forever Changing [2022 Remaster] (4:53)
6. Secret Mission [2022 Remaster] (5:05)
7. Kalynda (A Magical Isle) [2022 Remaster] (3:46)
8. The Discovery [2022 Remaster] (4:28)
9. Friends [2022 Remaster] (3:35)
10. The Flood At Lyons [2022 Remaster] (5:05)
11. Island of Avalon [2022 Remaster] (2:44)
12. Jekyll and Hyde [Single Version, 2022 Remaster] (3:14)

CD2
1. Jekyll and Hyde [Stereo Remix] (4:44)
2. The Winter Tree [Stereo Remix] (3:04)
3. Only Angels Have Wings [Stereo Remix] (3:45)
4. Golden Key [Stereo Remix] (5:17)
5. Forever Changing [Stereo Remix] (4:47)
6. Secret Mission [Stereo Remix] (5:03)
7. Kalynda (A Magical Isle) [Stereo Remix] (3:44)
8. The Discovery [Stereo Remix] (4:26)
9. Friends [Stereo Remix] (3:32)
10. The Flood At Lyons [Stereo Remix] (5:13)
11. Island of Avalon [Stereo Remix] (2:50)
12. Friends [Extended Version] (6:23)
13. Jekyll and Hyde [Single Version, Stereo Remix] (3:29)
14. Kalynda (A Magical Isle) [Early Version] (3:50)
15. Forever Changing [Acoustic Demo] (4:40)
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