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Gracious - This Is...Gracious!! (1971) [Japanese Edition 2006] (Re-up)
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Gracious - This Is…Gracious!! (1971) [Japanese Edition 2006]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 272 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 99 MB | Covers - 11 MB
Genre: Progressive Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Universal Music (UICY-93180)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 272 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 99 MB | Covers - 11 MB
Genre: Progressive Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Universal Music (UICY-93180)
A truly undervalued gem, This Is… Gracious! sat on the shelves for two years after completion before being issued; it's a shame that it was to be last anyone heard from the band for the next two decades.
No sophomore jinx here: on their second album, Gracious truly hits its stride. The first half of the album is a four-part suite, "Super Nova." After its Floydian opening instrumental, the band launches into the bleak "Blood Red Sun"; with a dystopic narrative of environmental holocaust and its martial drumbeat, it's an ideal complement to King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man." Strange, then, that this should lead to "Say Goodbye to Love," an effectively weepy guitar ballad of lost romance and tear-jerking harmonies. It's on the second half of the album, though, that Gracious hits escape velocity. On "C.B.S." the band shifts effortlessly from a groovy clavinet jam to a bouncing barrelhouse piano in the verse. "Blue Skies and Alibis" is a prime example of Martin Kitcat's Mellotron technique; powered along by Cowderoy's graceful guitar, smoky vocals, and a lush piano progression worthy of Joe Jackson, it's one of their most enduring tracks.
Tracklist:
Super Nova:
01. Arrival of the Traveller
02. Blood Red Sun
03. Say Goodbye To Love
04. Prepare To Meet Thy Maker
05. C.B.S.
06. What's Come To Be
07. Blue Skies and Alibis
08. Hold Me Down
Total time: 42:22
EAC extraction logfile from 14. May 2007, 14:54 for CD
Gracious / This Is…Gracious!!
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Gracious / This Is…Gracious!!
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Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Used output format : Internal WAV Routines
44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo
Other options :
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