Wednesday, 15 January 2025

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer [Japan Ed.] (1970)

Year: 20 November 1970 (CD Jun 23, 2010)
Label: Victor Records (Japan), VICP-70148
Style: Symphonic Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 58:56
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 397 Mb

Charts: UK #4, AUS #9, CAN #17, GER #7, ITA #20, NED #4, NOR #18, JP #66, US #18. UK & US: Gold.
They were not the first rock supergroup, a distinction I would accord to Blind Faith. And their first album was not the first progressive rock album by any means. But Emerson, Lake & Palmer was the first progressive rock album recorded by a supergroup, which makes it an important work in the annals of rock and roll. It also happens to be an awesomely cool album that merges the better parts of The Nice and King Crimson into arguably the truest vision yet of a classical/rock hybrid.
Keith Emerson is the band’s grand sonic architect. He creates complex classical arrangements and adaptations of classical composers (Bela Bartok, Leos Janacek, J.S. Bach) on organ, piano and synthesizer. For the opening of Take a Pebble, he even strums the strings of a grand piano like a harp. He’s not quite a one-man band, but he does carry the lion’s share of the music on his shoulders. Emerson was the main attraction in The Nice too, but with ELP he was given even more space to shine.
Greg Lake was previously the bass player and singer in King Crimson, a group whose first album, In the Court of the Crimson King, is universally recognized as one of the earliest and best examples of progressive rock. Lake played a smaller role in Crimson, which was Robert Fripp’s band from the beginning. In ELP, more emphasis was placed on his wonderful voice and soulful balladry. As a bass player, he’s no Jack Bruce, as a guitarist, no Robert Fripp, but as a singer you couldn’t do much better.
Carl Palmer was arguably the least known of the three, having appeared briefly with Arthur Brown and Atomic Rooster. He and Emerson are the band’s two strongest musical contributors. Just as Emerson’s playing had a decidedly English feel to it that leaned heavily on pomp and circumstance, Palmer’s drumming often felt like a marching boy gone mad, his disciplined rhythms played with mathematical precision on snare, cymbals and assorted drums.
(full version: progrography.com/emerson-lake-palmer/review-emerson-lake-palmer-1970/)

01. The Barbarian (04:35)
02. Take A Pebble (12:38)
03. Knife Edge (05:10)
04. The Three Fates: Clotho (Royal Festival Hall Organ) / Lachesis (Piano Solo) /... (07:47)
05. Tank (06:53)
06. Lucky Man (04:49)
07. The Barbarian (Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival) (05:08)
08. Take A Pebble (Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival) (11:53)

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