Label: Castle Communications (UK), ESMCD 643
Style: Progressive Rock, Jazz Rock, Fusion
Country: England
Time: 39:59
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 277 Mb
Those Who Are About to Die Salute You is the debut album by Colosseum, released in 1969 by Fontana. It is one of the pioneering albums of jazz fusion. The title is a translation of the Latin phrase morituri te salutant that according to popular belief (but not academic agreement), gladiators addressed to the emperor before the beginning of a gladiatorial match. The album reached number 15 in the UK Albums Chart.
"Debut" is the first song Colosseum ever played as a group. Tony Reeves later recalled that "Debut" "was actually a phrase that I remembered Mick Taylor playing with John Mayall, and I changed it a bit into a bass line. [Sings the part.] And then the band all joined in – this is what happens during rehearsals – so technically you should have everybody's name in the writing credit, including, I guess, Mick Taylor's!"
"Mandarin" started from a series of sketches by Dave Greenslade that were based on a Japanese soft scale. Tony Reeves compiled the sketches into the main theme and arranged the song.
"Beware the Ides of March" borrows a theme of the fugue of "Toccata and Fugue in D minor" by Johann Sebastian Bach (Bach BWV 565). Colosseum also recorded "I Can't Live Without You", which appears on the 2004 re-release as a bonus track.
It was voted number 23 in the All-Time 50 Long Forgotten Gems from Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Those_Who_Are_About_to_Die_Salute_You)
01. Walking In The Park (03:53)
02. Plenty Hard Luck (04:27)
03. Mandarin (04:24)
04. Debut (06:20)
05. Beware The Ides Of March (05:36)
06. The Road She Walked Before (02:43)
07. Backwater Blues (07:39)
08. Those About To Die (04:54)
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