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Gentle Giant: 4 First Albums ● Universal Music Japan SHM-CD 2010

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Gentle Giant: 4 First Albums ● Universal Music Japan SHM-CD 2010

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Gentle Giant
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1970 Gentle Giant (Universal Music Japan SHM-CD 2010)
Catalog No. UICY-20126
Vertigo / Mercury / Universal Records
Ⓟ 1970 & 2010 © Mercury Records Ltd. (UK) Universal International
A Universal Music Company
Made in Japan
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1971 Acquiring The Taste (Universal Music Japan SHM-CD 2010)
Catalog No. UICY-20127
Vertigo / Mercury / Universal Records
Ⓟ 1971 & 2010 © Mercury Records Ltd. (UK) Universal International
A Universal Music Company
Made in Japan
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1972 Three Friends (Universal Music Japan SHM-CD 2010)
Catalog No. UICY-20128
Vertigo / Mercury / Universal Records
Ⓟ 1972 & 2010 © Mercury Records Ltd. (UK) Universal International
A Universal Music Company
Made in Japan
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1972 Octopus (Universal Music Japan SHM-CD 2010)
Catalog No. UICY-20129
Vertigo / Mercury / Universal Records
Ⓟ 1972 & 2010 © Mercury Records Ltd. (UK) Universal International
A Universal Music Company
Made in Japan
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Серия / Series: My Generation, My Music on "Back to the Rock years 1968-1972"
Жанр: Rock / Progressive Rock
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Reissue from Gentle Giant featuring the high-fidelity SHM-CD format (Super High Material CD) developed by JVC and Universal Music Japan. Polycarbonate plastic with improved transparency is used for the disc surface for enhanced audio quality (compatible with standard CD players). Features 2009 master by Universal in Japan. Includes a description and lyrics. Part of a four-album Gentle Giant SHM-CD reissue series featuring albums "Gentle Giant," "Acquiring The Taste," "Three Friends," and "Octopus."

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Gentle Giant - британская рок-группа, образованная в 1970 году тремя братьями Шульманами, стала в 1970-х одним из характернейших коллективов прогрессивного рока. Вдохновлённые философами древности, собственным опытом и трудами Франсуа Рабле, участники группы следовали принципу «расширять границы современной поп-музыки, рискуя стать крайне непопулярными». Группу образовали Дерек, Рей и Фил Шульманы в 1970 году, после того как в 1969 году они распустили свою соул/поп-группу Simon Dupree and the Big Sound. Братья взяли в состав гитариста Гэри Грина и клавишника Кери Минниара. Барабанщики в группе менялись, дольше всех на этом месте продержался Джон Уэзерс. Группа выпустила двенадцать альбомов и распалась в 1980 году. Их ранние альбомы более эклектичны и экспериментальны, чем поздние. К 1974 году, когда у группы начала расти армия поклонников в США, они упростили свои песни (которые на фоне прочих рок-исполнителей оставались всё же очень сложными), чтобы расширить свою аудиторию. Альбомы «The Power and the Glory» и «Free Hand» попали в американский Top 50. К 1977 году, когда течение моды сдвинуло музыкальный рынок в сторону панка и новой волны, группа перешла к более коммерческому звучанию. В 1979 году группа переехала в США, чтобы записать свой двенадцатый и самый мейнстримовый альбом «Civilian», после чего прекратила своё существование. С 1990-х годов поднялась новая волна интереса к творчеству Gentle Giant, появились новые фан-клубы, новые издания концертных записей и ранее невыпускавшегося материала, несколько альбомов-трибьютов и провалившаяся попытка фанатов в 1997 году уговорить участников собраться и дать один концерт. Несколько новых групп прогрессивного рока заявляют о том что испытывают сильное влияние музыки Gentle Giant на своё творчество, среди таких групп Spock’s Beard и Echolyn. В 2005 году всвязи с 35-летним юбилеем группы была выпущена серия заново сведённых в цифровом формате компакт-дисков с поздними альбомами в специальной упаковке и с бонусами в виде ранее неизданных концертных записей (различного качества). Многие из этих альбомов (особенно «In a Glass House») до этого было практически невозможно купить в Северной Америке, только редкие импортные экземпляры. Были переизданы следующие альбомы: «In a Glass House», «The Power and the Glory», «Free Hand», «Interview», «The Missing Piece», «Playing the Fool» (концертный) и «Giant for a Day». К огорчению поклонников права на издание альбомов группы распределены между множеством компаний, из которых не все стараются переиздать альбомы качественно.

allmusic.com / Biography by Bruce Eder
Formed at the dawn of the progressive rock era in 1969, Gentle Giant seemed poised for a time in the mid-'70s to break out of its cult-band status, but somehow never made the jump. Somewhat closer in spirit to Yes and King Crimson than to Emerson, Lake & Palmer or the Nice, their unique sound melded hard rock and classical music, with an almost medieval approach to singing. Gentle Giant was born out of the ruins of Simon Dupree & the Big Sound, an R&B-based outfit led by brothers Derek, Ray, and Phil Shulman. After switching to psychedelia in 1967 and scoring their only major hit that year with "Kites," as Gentle Giant the group abandoned both the R&B and psychedelic orientations of the previous band; Derek sang and played guitar and bass, Ray sang and played bass and violin, and Phil handled the saxophone, augmented by Kerry Minnear on keyboards, and Gary Green on guitar. Their original lineup also featured Martin Smith on drums, but they went through several percussionists in the first three years of their existence. In 1970, Gentle Giant signed to the Vertigo label, and their self-titled first album - a shockingly daring work mixing hard rock and full electric playing with classical elements - came out later that year. Their second effort, 1971's Acquiring the Taste, was slightly more accessible and their third, Three Friends, featuring Malcolm Mortimore on drums, was their first record to get released in the U.S. (on Columbia). Their fourth album, 1973's Octopus, looked poised for a breakthrough; it seemed as though they had found the mix of hard rock and classical sounds that the critics and the public could accept, and they finally had a permanent drummer in the person of John Weathers, an ex-member of the Graham Bond Organisation. In 1974, however, Gentle Giant began coming apart. Phil Shulman decided to give up music after the Octopus tour, and became a teacher. Then the group recorded the album In a Glass House, their hardest-rocking record yet, which Columbia's U.S. arm rejected as too uncommercial. The two-year gap in their American release schedule hurt their momentum, and they weren't heard from again until the Capitol release of The Power and the Glory in 1975. Gentle Giant released Free Hand, their most commercial album, in 1976, but then followed it up with the jarringly experimental Interview. After the 1978 double-album Playing the Fool, the group went through a seeming change of heart and issued a series of albums aimed at mainstream audiences, even approaching disco, but by the end of the 1970s their popularity was in free-fall. Gentle Giant called it quits in 1980. Ray Shulman later became a producer and had considerable success in England working with bands like the Sundays and the Sugarcubes, while Derek Shulman became a New York-based record company executive.

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1970 Gentle Giant

Gentle Giant's self-titled first album was an impressive and unique debut that combined rock, blues, classical, and 1960's British soul. Although the recording quality is sub-par, the music transcends the medium and presents the listener with a variety of musical styles. A Tall Tale, from the original liner notes, is a story about the band and the giant. Beautiful high-resolution scan of the full fold-out cover with the crease removed, thanks to Michael Geiger. Astonishingly daring debut album, not as focused or overpowering as King Crimson's first but still crashing down barriers and steamrolling expectations. The mix of medieval harmonies and electric rock got stronger on subsequent albums, but the music here is still pretty jarring. Kerry Minnear was probably the only prog rock keyboard player of the era who allowed his synthesizers to sound like themselves and not mimic orchestras; Gary Green's guitars are alternately loud and brittle or soft and lyrical, and always surprising; and the presence of saxes and trumpets (courtesy of Phil Shulman) was unusual in any rock band of the era -- all of which explains how Gentle Giant managed to attract a cult following but hadn't a prayer of moving up from that level of recognition. "Funny Ways" was the softest prog rock song this side of Crimson's "I Talk to the Wind," but a lot of the rest is pretty intense in volume and tempo changes. "Nothing at All" by itself is worth the price of purchase.

Personnel
* Gary Green - lead guitar, 12 string guitar, flute, backing vocals
* Kerry Minnear - keyboard, some bass, cello, synthesizer, lead vocals, backing vocals, some tuned percussion
* Derek Shulman - lead vocals, backing vocals, some bass
* Phil Shulman - sax, trumpet, recorder, lead vocals, backing vocals
* Ray Shulman - most bass, violin, some guitar, percussion, backing vocals
* Martin Smith - drums, percussion, xilophone
Additional
* Paul Cosh - tenor horn on "Giant"
* Claire Deniz - cello on "Isn't It Quiet And Cold?"
201MB (1 Part) + 195MB (1 Part)

01 Giant
02 Funny Ways
03 Alucard
04 Isn't It Quiet And Cold?
05 Nothing At All
06 Why Not?
07 The Queen

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1971 Acquiring The Taste

Acquiring the Taste was the second album of English progressive rock band Gentle Giant, released in 1971. This was a departure from the blues and soul styles found on their self titled debut. It was more experimental, more discordant, and with more varied instrumentation. In the sleeve text, the band made this famous declaration: "...It is our goal to expand the frontiers of contemporary popular music at the risk of being very unpopular. We have recorded each composition with the one thought - that it should be unique, adventurous and fascinating. It has taken every shred of our combined musical and technical knowledge to achieve this. From the outset we have abandoned all preconceived thoughts of blatant commercialism. Instead we hope to give you something far more substantial and fulfilling. All you need to do is sit back, and acquire the taste." Most versions of this album (both LP and CD) have a mastering defect at the beginning of the title track. The first two notes of the synthesizer are heard at the wrong pitch before the correct pitch stabilizes. This error probably caused by an analog tape recorder coming up to speed. The correct version of this track can be found on the remastered 2 CD Gentle Giant collection titled The Edge of Twilight released in the U.K. in 1996.
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allmusic.com / Review by Bruce Eder
The band's second album is a major advance on its first, featuring superior singing, playing, and songwriting, as well as a more unified sound, without sacrificing the element of surprise in the first record. Many of the melodies and even the riffs here (check out Gary Green's first guitar flourish on "Pantagruel's Nativity") have a pretty high haunt count, and all of the musicianship displays an elegance seldom heard even in progressive circles -- but the record also, amazingly enough, rocks really hard as well. Elements of hard rock and Gregorian chants mix freely and, amazingly enough, well throughout this album.

Personnel
* Gary Green - 6 string guitar, 12 string guitar, 12 string wah-wah guitar, donkey's jawbone, cat calls, voice
* Kerry Minnear - electric piano, organ, mellotron, vibraphone, Moog, piano, celeste, clavichord, harpsichord, tympani, xylophone, maracas, lead vocals
* Derek Shulman - alto sax, clavichord, cowbell, lead vocals
* Phil Shulman - alto & tenor sax, clarinet, trumpet, piano, claves, maracas, lead vocals
* Ray Shulman - bass, violin, viola, electric violin, Spanish guitar, tambourine, 12 string guitar, organ bass pedals, skulls, vocals
* Martin Smith - drums, tambourine, gongs, side drum
Additional
* Paul Cosh - trumpet, organ
* Tony Visconti - recorder, bass drum, triangle
* Chris Thomas - moog programmer
228MB (1 Part) + 214MB (1 Part)

01 Pantagruel's Nativity
02 Edge Of Twilight
03 The House, The Street, The Room
04 Acquiring The Taste
05 Wreck
06 The Moon Is Down
07 Black Cat
08 Plain Truth

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1972 Three Friends

Three Friends (1972) is a concept album by the British progressive rock band Gentle Giant. The group's third album was also their first American release to chart, peaking at #197 on the Billboard 200. It marked a change in drummers from Martin Smith to Malcolm Mortimore. It is Gentle Giant's first concept album, dealing with three childhood friends whose lives take them very different places. It was also their first self-produced album. The two former albums were produced by David Bowie and T.Rex producer Tony Visconti. Gary Green's guitar solo on "Peel the Paint" uses an echoplex belonging to Mike Ratledge that Green's brother Jeff, a roadie with Ratledge's band Soft Machine, had borrowed. The song "Schooldays" starts off with the sounds of a schoolyard playground in England. Ray Shulman told Songfacts about the song: "We started off using the sound effects of the schoolyard so it would be very nostalgic, and that's a whole song about being at school together, and how these friends went their own different ways. One goes into manual labour, one goes into clerical work, and one is an artist." For the US and Canadian releases, on Columbia Records, the album cover was changed to a modified version of the design from the self-titled UK debut Gentle Giant. The album title and band name were added over the forehead of the giant image and the colour tinting of the cover was changed. The US CD edition on Columbia also has the marker for track 6 in the wrong place. On this version track number 5 ends early at 3:23 instead of 5:51 while incorrectly extending the length of track six from 3:04 to 5:32.
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allmusic.com / Review by Bruce Eder
Gentle Giant's third album (and their first self-produced effort, Tony Visconti having run the sessions on the two previous records) was another advance, this time in the direction of a harder rock sound - everything sounds turned up here, especially the guitars, the bass, and the electronic keyboards. Three Friends hardly sacrificed any of the group's progressive intentions, however, and there are some softer moments here, such as the playful, sprightly first half of "Schooldays"; the harmonies and arrangements still had a distinctly medieval feel, and the melodies, though a little harder to discern here (which made them even more appealing when they did become obvious), were quite engaging. This is supposed to be a concept album, about the relationship between three friends across a lifetime, and the original notes and lyrics have been reprinted, but none of that is necessary in order to enjoy the songs here.

Personnel
* Kerry Minnear - Keyboards, Vibraphone, Percussion, Moog, Vocals
* Ray Shulman - Basses, Violin, 12 String Guitar, Vocals
* Gary Green - Guitars, Percussion
* Derek Shulman - Vocals
* Malcolm Mortimore - Drums
* Philip Shulman - Saxophones and Vocals
* Boy's voice on "Schooldays" - Calvin Shulman
201MB (2 Part) + 146MB (1 Part)

01 Prologue
02 Schooldays
03 Working All Day
04 Peel The Paint
05 Mister Class And Quality?
06 Three Friends

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1972 Octopus

Octopus is an album by British progressive rock band Gentle Giant, released in 1972. It marked a change in drummers from Malcolm Mortimore to John Weathers. The new line-up of the band delivered the Octopus album later in 1972, generally considered to represent the start of the band's peak period. The hardest and most "rocking" Gentle Giant album to date, Octopus was allegedly named by Phil Shulman's wife Roberta as a pun on "octo opus" (eight musical works, reflecting the album's eight tracks). In 2004, Ray Shulman commented '(Octopus) was probably our best album, with the exception, perhaps of Acquiring the Taste. We started with the idea of writing a song about each member of the band. Having a concept in mind was a good starting point for writing. I don't know why, but despite the impact of The Who's Tommy and Quadrophenia, almost overnight concept albums were suddenly perceived as rather naff and pretentious." The album maintained Gentle Giant's trademark of broad and challengingly integrated styles. One of the highlights was the intricate madrigal-styled vocal workout "Knots", lyrically inspired by the work of R. D. Laing. Before embarking on the Octopus tour, the band played a gruelling set of dates supporting Black Sabbath, during which they proved to be very unpopular with the majority of the headlining band's fans. In 2005, Derek Shulman recalled: "It was perhaps the most ridiculous pairing of groups ever in the history of show business. For the most part we got booed off the stage... At a show at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, we went on stage and the Sabbath fans were shouting "get off, we want Sabbath" and we were just getting set to play 'Funny Ways'. We pulled out the cellos and violins, and the crowd starting heckling immediately, but we were gradually starting to get past it, when someone threw a cherry bomb on stage. (Phil Shulman) made sure we all stopped playing and said we needed to get off the stage. As we were leaving the stage, Phil grabbed the mic and said to the crowd "you guys are a bunch of fucking cunts!", and the boo that went up after that was enormous! To this day I'll never forget it! We were sort of vindicated later on, as we thought we were never going to play Los Angeles again after the cherry bomb incident, but later on the Octopus tour we were able to sell out consistently there, so something clicked with the fans." In the Q & Mojo Classic Special Edition Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock, the album came #16 in its list of "40 Cosmic Rock Albums" The UK release of the album featured art by Roger Dean, but the US release featured a different cover by Charles White.
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allmusic.com / Review by Dave Thompson
Returning to Gentle Giant's fourth album after any kind of lengthy absence, it's astonishing just how little Octopus has dated. Often written off at the time as a pale reflection of the truly gargantuan steps being taken by the likes of Jethro Tull and Barclay James Harvest, the band's closest relatives in the tangled skein of period prog, Gentle Giant often seemed more notable for its album art than its music. Octopus, however, marries the two seamlessly, with the cover speaking for itself, of course. And the mood continues within, the deliciously convoluted opening "The Advent of Panurge" itself riding waves of sonic tentacles as Derek Shulman's guitar shrieks short but so effective bursts around the thundering bass and, occasionally, churchy organ. Against the pulsating volume of the album's heavier tracks -- "Panurge" is joined by "A Cry for Everyone" - the band's excursions into less excitable territory are never less than captivating. Twiddly though they are, the sometimes a cappella "Knots," the lilting "Dog's Life," and the Yes-with-fiddles-ish "Raconteur Troubadour" all have moments of sublime sweetness, while the instrumental "The Boys in the Band" is a succession of quirky showcases for, indeed, all the boys. Occasionally arrangements do get overly cluttered -- with each of the six bandmembers doubling up on at least three different instruments, there's a distinct sense of overdubs for overdubbing's sake. Follow the key instruments alone, however, and the soundscapes not only make perfect sense, but so do the flourishes and intrusions that rattle around. And the end result is an album that has withstood the test of time a lot better than anyone might have expected.

Personnel
* Gary Green - Guitars, percussion
* Kerry Minnear - All keyboards, vibraphone, percussion, cello, Moog, lead and backing vocals
* Derek Shulman - Lead vocals, alto saxophone
* Phil Shulman - Saxophones, trumpet, mellophone, lead and backing vocals
* Ray Shulman - Bass, violin, guitar, percussion, vocals
* John Weathers - Drums, percussion, xylophone
238MB (1 Part) + 230MB (1 Part)

01 The Advent Of Panurge
02 Raconteur, Troubadour
03 A Cry For Everyone
04 Knots
05 The Boys In The Band
06 Dog's Life
07 Think Of Me With Kindness
08 River

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Gentle Giant / Octopus

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