As a fellow keyboardist, I have always had an interest in my
\nfellow rock artists who displays their talents with the black and
\nwhite keys. Ray Manzarek (The Doors), Elton John, Billy Joel, Rick
\nWakeman (to name a few) have always perked my interest (most
\nrecently, Wakeman), and producer\/songwriter Alan Parsons has always
\nshowed his expertise on his Project albums. More orchestrated,
\nParsons has always displayed great works with synthesizers and
\ninstrumentation in their most popular hits ( “Sirius\/Eye In The
\nSky” — the song used for the Chicago Bulls introducing the
\nplayers– is APP’s most famous hit.) 1978’s
\nPyramid<\/i> was Parsons’ third album, long before
\nEye In The Sky<\/i> was released, four years later. It shows
\nParsons as a gifted producer, arranger, and co-songwriter, where
\nthe songs on this album could classify as New Age, Rock, and
\nProgressive Rock.<\/p>\n
The first two songs, “Voyager” and “What Goes Up…” have a
\nsomewhat New Age Jazz sound mixed with Rock. Another interesting
\ntune is the soft ballad “The Eagle Will Rise Again,” a song that
\ncould easily fit most New Age Jazz formats. None of these 3 songs
\nwill bore the listener; it has a continuing blend of music that
\nwill keep the listener listening for more. “One More River” is
\ndefinitely a rock sounding tune, and the vocalist has a resemblance
\nto Elton John, with a much more Rock edge, than Sir Elton had
\nperformed in his heyday during the 1970s.<\/p>\n
“Can’t Take It With You” displays a Rock\/Progressive Rock sound,
\nlikewise the instrumental “In The Lap Of The Gods” showcases a
\nsense of mystery, and has great orchestration from start to finish.
\n“Pyramania” has a Pop\/New Wave approach (as in the music of XTC),
\nwhere another instrumental, “Hyper-Gamma Spaces,” has an upbeat,
\nsnappy, almost-Jazz sound, with expert synthesizers.<\/p>\n
The last song has superb orchestration and vocals, “Shadow Of A
\nLonely Man” could classify as Progressive Rock, with a touch of
\nClassical Music. A very impressive tune, this one will want the
\nlistener go back and listen to it again.<\/p>\n
\nPyramid<\/i> displays the “high-tech” keyboard sounds Alan
\nParsons has always provided in his music. His vocalists included
\nex-Zombie Colin Blunstone, Dean Ford, David Paton, Lenny Zakatek,
\nJack Harris, and John Miles. (The CD didn’t display who sang each
\nsong, that would have been nice…) What is interesting, in reading
\nthe information about this album, is that Parsons did NOT play
\nkeyboards on this album. He produced and engineered the album, and
\nplayed acoustic guitar. The keyboards were performed by Parsons’
\nlyricist\/manager Eric Woolfson and Duncan Mackay. All of the songs
\nwere co-written by Parsons and Woolfson. An amazing album — for
\nthose who are not familiar with Parsons’ music, after listening to
\nPyramid<\/i>, the listener will want to explore other albums by
\nParsons, especially the ones that did not have any major hits, like
\nthis album did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":24547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[5840],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-37649","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-the-alan-parsons-project","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=37649"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=37649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}