Renaissance

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Farthingscat, Jan 28, 2019.

  1. Farthingscat

    Farthingscat Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    I wonder if this will be interesting.

    Renaissance

    A Song For All Seasons (boxset pre-order)

    Remastered and expanded edition of the classic 1978 Renaissance album featuring 15 bonus tracks.

    Working with producer David Hentschel (who had recently produced A Trick of the Tailand Wind And Wuthering for Genesis), the material on A Song For All Seasonscontained some of the most carefully crafted and well-recorded work of the band’s career.

    Contains an illustrated booklet with a reproduction of the band’s 1978 US tour programme and an essay. The set also includes a reproduction of the original album poster given away with the initial pressing of the album.

    Pre-order for 29th March release.
     
  2. Chemically altered

    Chemically altered Forum Resident

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    This great news! Can you supply a link?
     
  3. willy

    willy hooga hagga hooga

    'Northern Lights' and 'Back Home Once Again' are fabulous... :love:
     
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  4. Hershiser

    Hershiser Forum Resident

    Is their a link for this?
     
  5. olegrayman

    olegrayman Senior Member

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  6. bRETT

    bRETT Senior Member

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    So all the bonus stuff is live, most of which has been released before (the Philadelphia 78 show in its entirety). No doubt it's good, but there seem to be multiple live versions of every song Renaissance did in their heyday.
     
  7. anduandi

    anduandi Senior Member

    So it seems to be true that Eclectic will release all Renaissance albums this year as deluxe editions with bonus tracks.
    I very much hope that Turn of the Cards will get a proper remastering.
    Can anyone comment on the sound quality of "Prologue" and "Ashes are burning" which are already available ?
     
  8. Chemically altered

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    They are decent in their various reissue editions (Repertoire, etc.) in that they all sound as if taken from the same master.
     
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  9. bettsaj

    bettsaj “I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.”

    Just checked the Renaissance website, looked at the discography page, and blow me down they have chosen to totally ignore the first 2 albums, Renaissance & Illusion choosing to start the discography at the 3rd album when Annie Haslam joined........ Why is this? It's like they're not acknowledging their past and are viewing it as unimportant. OK, none of the original members are in the band now, but it's still Renaissance whichever way you dress it up.
     
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  10. Hershiser

    Hershiser Forum Resident

    This is not surprising. There has always been a clear dividing line between the first incarnation of Renaissance and the Annie/Jon Camp “Classic” era of the band with Prologue being the debut album. I would have been shocked if they were treated as one in a remaster campaign.

    Looking forward to this new Songs for All Seasons, but I have so many CD issues of all the classic lead Annie era albums I’m not sure I need it.
     
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  11. Ignatius

    Ignatius Forum Resident

    Remember buying this and getting stiffed on the promised poster.
     
  12. PJayBe

    PJayBe Forum Resident

    Ashes Are Burning due with 3 BBC tracks....

    7. CAN YOU UNDERSTAND (LIVE -BBC RADIO âœIN CONCERT❠1974)
    8. LET IT GROW (LIVE -BBC RADIO âœIN CONCERT❠1974)
    9. ASHES ARE BURNING (LIVE -BBC RADIO âœIN CONCERT❠1974)

    Prologue just gets a single mix added.
     
  13. Were the first 2 albums released on a different label? That may explain their absence -that, or they don't see a market for them.
     
  14. bettsaj

    bettsaj “I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.”

    Both albums were on Island Records when they were released, however they were both remastered in 2016 and reissued by Repertoire Records which as far as I know has handled a lot of their reissues over the last few years
     
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  15. Not too exciting, I'll probably pass on replacing my old CDs. A better sounding Turn Of The Cards is all that I hope for now from this band.
     
  16. pghmusiclover

    pghmusiclover Senior Member

    It seems that the band is
    I don't consider those first two albums as part of the Renaissance discography.

    It's too bad that the band is not releasing some nice vinyl deluxe editions.

    Out of curiosity, have they reissued any of their albums with unreleased studio tracks? Or do they always just include live tracks or single edits on their deluxe reissues?
     
  17. Chemically altered

    Chemically altered Forum Resident

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    I like the two Relf/McCarty Renaissance albums for sentimental reasons.
     
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  18. bettsaj

    bettsaj “I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.”


    How can you not include them, when they're clearly part of it. I don't know much about the band, and only know a few of their songs, hence why I was looking on Discogs and then their own website, I was shocked to see the omission. I think it was likely a conscious decision by the band to not include them, as they had nothing to do with them.... Even so, still weird seeing as they were called Renaissance
     
  19. Hershiser

    Hershiser Forum Resident

    They are only linked together in name only. It is two completely different bands. I love the classic lineup but confess to not owning or having any interest in the first incarnation of Renaissance.
     
  20. bettsaj

    bettsaj “I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.”


    A bit like Marillion, Yes, Thin Lizzy... etc etc etc
     
  21. Chemically altered

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    They are different bands but are joined by a common DNA. The first untitled album is more 60's styled folk rock with interjections of classical piano while the second album, Illusion, was starting to morph into more of a later Haslam/Camp era band sound. Both hold historical interest to me if not musical.
     
  22. Wally Swift

    Wally Swift Yo-Yoing where I will...

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    I have owned and loved the first two Renaissance albums for quite a while. I have only in the last couple of years started buying the later albums. I like the Annie Haslam albums I have heard but I have yet to enjoy any of them more than the first two.
     
  23. bettsaj

    bettsaj “I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.”


    I checked out the first one on Spotify..... It's more progressive than the "classic" lineup. I like it.
     
  24. Wally Swift

    Wally Swift Yo-Yoing where I will...

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    I have had two Beat Club clips for ages, since the 80's. When I finally found a NM copy of the first one in a thrift about 10 years ago I loved it start to finish. Picked up Illusion a year or so later.
     
  25. Hershiser

    Hershiser Forum Resident

    Not really. Those bands had member continuity, Renaissance MKII was a complete redo with only John Tout being the link to the very last lineup of the original band which also underwent changes. The first incarnation had ties to the Yardbirds. New label and new management at the time for the classic lineup.
     

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