Patrick Moraz - Out in the Sun (1977) [Remastered 2006]

Out In The Sun is Patrick’s second solo album and comes from 1977. It was recorded in Switzerland and Brazil and was recorded shortly after Patrick left Yes. As with The Story Of I the album has a very percussive feel throughout although the album is made up of eight individual pieces rather than the thematic piece that was The Story Of I. Featured tracks include Out In The Sun, Tentacles, Kabal and Silver Screen. As with the other solo albums in this series of re issues Patrick Moraz has personally overseen the re mastering of this album.

Aptly titled, Out in the Sun picks up where 1976's The Story of I left off, carrying on with rhythms drenched in Latin and Brazilian styles. Recorded both in Brazil and Patrick Moraz's home country of Switzerland in 1977, Out in the Sun brings up the liveliness another notch, this time with a more spacious approach to the South American sound. As Moraz dishes out a vast array of playful keyboard mélanges, it is such instruments as Indian finger cymbals and Chinese gongs that add variance to every track. Distant voices and bird sounds are put in as a backdrop by way of Moraz's synthesizers in "Time for a Change." Moraz employs numerous Moog keyboards and Hammond organs throughout the course of the eight tracks, but none take away any of the natural tones and primal auras that surround each one. "Rana Batucada" and "Kabala" are both beautiful instrumentals glazed with Brazilian percussion, while "Out in the Sun" blends congo drums and synthesizer together to form a highly entertaining instrumental mixture. All the keyboard work on Out in the Sun comes off as warm and unrestrained, helping to lay the groundwork for its pure tropical sound. ~ Review by Mike DeGagne





Track Listing

01. Out in the Sun (4:27)
02. Rana Batucada (5:34)
03. Nervous Breakdown (3:23)
04. Silver Screen (4:33)
05. Tentacles (3:33)
06. Kabala (4:58)
07. Love-Hate-Sun-Rain-You (4:52)
08. Time For A Change (9:10)
09. Batucada XXX [bonus track] (5:09)

Produced by Patrick Moraz and Jean Ristori

Line-up

• Patrick Moraz (Refugee, Yes, The Moody Blues, Mainhorse, Vímana): polymoog, Oberheim Polyphonic, minimoogs, vocals, piano, synthesizers, Vibrotronic Bubbletron, Taurus bass pedals, voice box, Steinway grand piano, Fender Rhodes, ARPS, Polyphonic polymoog, Hammond C3 organ, vibraphone, tambourine, Fender Rhodes 88, AKS effects, clavinet, Overheim polyphonc 4 voice and 8 voices, double moog, ARP 2600 & pro-soloists, Micromoog bass sequencer, digital sequencers, voices, birds, orchestrations
• Ray Gomez: mando guitar 8 strings, lead guitar, electric guitar
• Wornell Jones: bass, electric bass
• Vivienne McAuliffe: harmony vocals, vocals
• John McBurnie: lead vocals, harmony vocals
• Andy Newmark (Sly and the Family Stone, David Gilmour, ABC): drums
• Jean-Luc Bourgeois: Chinese gongs, Balian gongs
• "Chacal": congas, assorted Brasilian percussion
• Isla Eckinger: acoustic double bass

• The Percussionists of Rio de Janeiro - percussion
• "Professeur" Jean Ristori - Gibson electric bass and inner bag
• Philippe Staehli - tympanis, Indian finger cymbals
• "Testa" - pandeiro, assorted Brasilian percussion
• Francois Zmirou - lead vocals (7)

Notes

Album recorded in Phonogram Studios, Rio-de-Janeiro, Brazil, and in "Aquarius" Studios in Geneva, Switzerland
February-March 1977.
This is the 2006 remastered edition containing one bonus track.
CD digitally remastered by Jean Pistori and Patrick Moraz from the original Master Tapes at MTX Mastering Studio.





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