Focus - 50 Years: Anthology 1970-1976 (2020)

#Músicaparaelencierro. Terminamos la semana pasada con Focus y comenzamos esta nueva semana otra vez con la banda de Thijs Van Leer de la era con Jan Akkerman, un box set que incluye 9 discos de Focus, gracias a Horacio Manrique. Porque siempre es bueno escuchar a Focus, y proque siempre hay gente que lo consume (como se consume la buena música de todos los tiempos), aparece esta nueva caja recopilatoria de la banda de rock progresivo más importante de Holanda, que contiene 9 cds y 2 dvds, se publica en el 50 aniversario (como el box set anterior) pero comprende el período de 1970 a 1976 con todo el material publicado en esa época más otro inédito hasta ahora, la recopilación contiene remasterizaciones de los primeros siete álbumes de la banda, además de temas sueltos, mezclas alternativas, demos, mezclas de estudio en bruto y grabaciones en vivo inéditas. Y así completamos las dos versiones del aniversario de los 50 primeros añitos de Focus!

Artista: Focus
Álbum: 50 Aniversario
Año: 2020
Género: Rock sinfónico
Referencia: Discogs
Nacionalidad: Holanda


No vale la pena agregar nada a esto, solo hay que escucharlo...

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Lista de Temas:
Focus Plays Focus / In And Out Of Focus [1970] (01:13:49)

01 Focus (instrumental) 9.46
02 Why Dream 3.56
03 Happy Nightmare (Mescaline) 3.56
04 Anonymus 7.01
05 Black Beauty 3.05
06 Sugar Island 3.02
07 Focus (vocal) 2.43
BONUS TRACKS
08 House Of The King 2.23
09 Eruption (Live Lanx 1970) 37.31 

Focus II / Moving Waves [1971] (01:03:08)

01 Hocus Pocus 6.41
02 Le Clochard (Bread) 1.59
03 Janis 3.06
04 Moving Waves 2.41
05 Focus II 4.03
06 Eruption (Orfeus – Answer – Orfeus – Answer – Pupilla – Tommy – Pupilla – Answer – The Bridge – Euridice – Dayglow – Endless Road – Answer – Orfeus – Euridice) 23.07
BONUS TRACKS
07 Hocus Pocus (single version) 3.27
08 Tommy (single version) 3.25
09 Focus I (Live Texel 1971) 14.11 

Focus 3 [1972] (01:18:26)

01 Round Goes The Gossip… 5.16
02 Love Remembered 2.48
03 Sylvia 3.32
04 Carnival Fugue 6.07
05 Focus III 6.05
06 Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! 14.03
07 Anonymus II (Part 1) 19.33
08 Anonymus II (Conclusion) 7.34
09 Elspeth Of Nottingham 3.13
BONUS TRACKS
01 Sylvia (single version) 3.32
02 Love Remembered (single version) 2.49
03 Hocus Pocus (US single version) 3.25 

At the Rainbow [1973] (00:54:51)

01 Focus III 3.52
02 Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! 11.26
03 Focus II 4.24
04 Eruption (Orfeus – Answer – Orfeus – Answer – Pupilla – Tommy – Pupilla) 8.40
05 Hocus Pocus 8.27
06 Sylvia 2.47
07 Hocus Pocus – reprise 2.48
BONUS TRACKS
08 P’s March (original mix – single version) 3.27
09 Ship Of Memories (original mix) 4.40
10 P’s March (original mix – full version) 4.03

Hamburger Concerto [1974] (01:00:09)

01 Delitiæ Musicæ 1.13
02 Harem Scarem 5.50
03 La Cathédrale de Strasbourg 4.57
04 Birth 7.45
05 Hamburger Concerto (Starter – Rare – Medium I – Medium II – Well Done – One For The Road) 20.23
BONUS TRACKS
06 Early Birth 2.56
07 Harem Scarem (single version) 3.08
08 Birth (alternate mix) 7.43
09 Harem Scarem (alternate mix) 5.51 

 

Mother Focus [1975] (01:12:32)

01 Mother Focus 3.05
02 I Need A Bathroom 3.04
03 Bennie Helder 3.33
04 Soft Vanilla 3.04
05 Hard Vanilla 2.35
06 Tropic Bird 2.45
07 Focus IV 3.57
08 Someone’s Crying… What! 3.19
09 All Together… Oh That! 3.41
10 No Hang Ups 2.56
11 My Sweetheart 3.38
12 Father Bach 1.33
BONUS TRACKS
13 Focus IV (rough mix) 4.02
14 Bennie Helder (rough mix) 3.45
15 Vanilla (rough mix) 5.42
16 Mother Focus (rough mix) 3.02
17 All Together… Oh That! (rough mix) 3.42
18 My Sweetheart (rough mix) 3.46
19 Someone’s Crying… What! (rough mix) 3.18
20 Studio 55 Jam 6.56 

 

Ship Of Memories [1976] (01:18:22)

01 P’s March 4.48
02 Can’t Believe My Eyes 5.22
03 Focus V 3.02
04 Out Of Vesuvius 5.51
05 Glider 4.40
06 Red Sky At Night 5.52
07 Spoke The Lord Creator 2.33
08 Crackers 2.42
09 Ship Of Memories 1.47
BONUS TRACKS
10 Elektrisch Levenslicht (Neerlands Hoop in Bange Dagen) 3.09
11 The Shrine Of God (Ramses Shaffy with group Focus) 3.39
12 Watch The Ugly People (Ramses Shaffy with group Focus) 2.19
13 House Of The King (rough mix version 1) 2.27
14 House Of The King (rough mix version 2) 2.26
15 Focus III (unreleased single version) 4.37
16 Hocus Pocus (US single version – takes 14-17) 7.12
17 Glider (single version) 3.28
18 P’s March (single version) 4.07
19 O Avondrood 5.10
20 Crackers (vocal version) 2.31 

 

Focus BBC 1973 (01:02:39)
01 Focus III 3.54
02 Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! 12.09
03 Focus II 5.06
04 Anonymus II 23.30
05 Focus I 4.27
06 Hocus Pocus 7.38
07 Sylvia – Hocus Pocus (reprise) 5.52

 

Focus Live 1971-1975 (01:19:47)

01 Eruption (Live Rotterdam 1971) 46.37
02 Birth 11.38
03 Improvisation #1 8.35
04 House Of The King 3.02
05 Improvisation #2 6.23
06 Hocus Pocus 3.20
Track 1: Recorded by AVRO radio at the Newport Jazz Festival, Grote Zaal, De Doelen, Rotterdam, 29th October 1971.
Track 2: Recorded at the Festival Hall, Osaka, 2nd July 1974.
Track 3-6: Recorded at Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, 21st June 1975.