1. Kings And Queens 2. Innocence 3. Island 4. Wanderer 5. Bullet 6. The sea 7. Island
SPOILER!
Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 4 from 23. January 2008
EAC extraction logfile from 8. May 2008, 0:08
Renaissance / Renaissance
Used drive : PLEXTOR DVDR PX-750A Adapter: 3 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure Utilize accurate stream : Yes Defeat audio cache : Yes Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 102 Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes Used interface : Installed external ASPI interface
Used output format : Internal WAV Routines Sample format : 44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo
Peak level 98.8 % Range quality 100.0 % Copy CRC 604FDDCE Copy OK
No errors occurred
AccurateRip summary
Track 1 not present in database Track 2 not present in database Track 3 not present in database Track 4 not present in database Track 5 not present in database Track 6 not present in database Track 7 not present in database
None of the tracks are present in the AccurateRip database
End of status report
lovemusic
@ 15-05-2008, 00:41
Line-up/Musicians - Keith Relf / vocals, guitar, harmonica - Jim McCarty / percussion, vocals - John Hawken / piano, harspichord - Louis Cennamo / bass guitar - Jane Relf / vocals, percussion
Hugues Chantraine @ progarchives.com My personal favourite as three Yardbirds are involved(who would've thought that possible). Relf , Mc Carty as well as Samwell-Smith on production evolve from blues caterpillar into prog butterfly. Intense and beautyful as Jane Relf has nothing to envy to Annie Haslam either.All the numbers have depth and musicianship . Wanderer is one of the highlights but so are Kings , Bullets ..... and the rest . A real classic . Fernando Raffani @ progarchives.com In my opinion, this is the best Renaissance album ever. The classical arrangements made by John Hawken and Louis Cemmano are really impressive. The album is perfect to the start to the end. Considering the year (1969), the sound is very progressive and ambitions, comparing to the other major progressive bands such as Genesis and Yes, that are starting and doing a proto progressive sound. The first songs, Kings and Queens, a lenghty tracks that starts with a stunning piano introduction by John Hawken. It sounds like Classical music. Then, the whole song has lots of variations and good arrangements, sometimes very rock ´n roll, sometimes very classical, very progressive at all. The second, Innocence, is a beautiful song, with very good keyboards and vocals. The third, Island, is a sweet tune, with Jane´s vocals (I LOVE her voice), the style is close to the Innocence´s style. The fourth, Wanderer, is superb. It is a very beautiful tune based on the harpsichord and has Jane at her best. The last one is Bullet, another lenghty track, with vocals by Keith, is more rock ´n roll at the beginning. The song includes a good harmonica solo by Keith and a incredible bass arrangement is the end, this one unfortunately can´t be heard will if you don´t have a good equipment and a good record (I don´t know if the CD version is well remastered or not, because in some CD´s the bass almost disappears). Although the line-up is completely different from the classic Renaissance albums, this is as good as the others (in my opinion, is the best), as Jane sings so well as Annie, and I personally think that the musicians of the first line-up are slightly better than the others.
