Renaissance (Renaissance album)

Renaissance (Renaissance album)

Infobox Album
Name = Renaissance
Type = Studio
Longtype =
Artist = Renaissance


Released = 1969
Recorded =
Genre = Progressive rock
Length = 39:24
Label = Island Records, Elektra
Producer =
Reviews =
*"Allmusic" Rating|3|5 [http://wm10.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fjfqxql0ldfe link]
Last album =
This album = "Renaissance"
(1969)
Next album = "Illusion"
1971Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Original US release cover
Type = studio

Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = "Innocence" reissue
Type = studio

"Renaissance" was the self-titled debut album by progressive rock band Renaissance.

Track listing

#"Kings and Queens" (Relf-McCarty-Hawken-Cennamo) - 10:56
#"Innocence" (Relf-McCarty-Hawken-Cennamo) - 7:07
#"Island" (Relf-McCarty-Hawken-Cennamo) [This track borrows heavily from Beethoven's "Pathetique Sonata"] - 5:58
#"Wanderer" (Hawken-McCarty) - 4:02
#"Bullet" (Relf-McCarty-Hawken-Cennamo) - 11:21

Personnel

*Keith Relf - vocals, guitar, harmonica
*Jim McCarty - percussion, vocals
*John Hawken - piano, harpsichord
*Louis Cennamo - bass
*Jane Relf - vocals, percussion

"Island" single

The single version of "Island" (the album version minus the classical themes at the end) was backed with a non-LP B-side, "The Sea." Some CD editions of the album include both of these tracks.

Releases

"Renaissance" was initially released in the UK in 1969 by Island records as catalogue ILPS 9112; it was also released in America on Elektra and by Island in Germany) as 87 609 ET.

In 1998 "Renaissance" was reissued by Mooncrest Records (U.K.) as "Innocence". This reissue included six bonus tracks, but the packaging included no explanation of what they were. Besides "Island" (single version) and "The Sea" (see above), there were the following: [ [http://www.nlightsweb.com/lib/rendisc.htm Renaissance Discography] ] [ [http://www.nlightsweb.com/lib/renhist.htm The History Of Renaissance<] ] [ [http://www.musicsage.org/topics/Keith-Relf Keith Relf - Music Sage]
*"Shining Where The Sun Has Been": Pre-Renaissance demo (1968) recorded by Keith & Jim under the name "Together."
*"Prayer For Light" & "Walking Away": Tracks recorded, post-Renaissance, by Keith & Jim (written & sung by Jim) for the unreleased 1971 film "Schizom".
*"All The Fallen Angels": Demo, 1976. Keith's final recorded performance.

References


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