EMERSON LAKE & PALMER

Emerson Lake & Palmer

Symphonic Prog

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In the mid-Seventies it took a while before I started to appreciate the sumptuous progrock from ELP. It's also totally different from the music from Genesis that I appreciated in the Seventies. But gradually I got into the virtuosic progrock and Keith Emerson, the 'Jimi Hendrix of the progressive rock', became one of my progrock heroes. His keyboardplay is so impressive, on this album I like the church-organ sound, the sparkling piano-runs, the fat Moog sound, what a stunning sound and what a sensation it must have been to hear this music in those days! The interplay between the three musicians is breathtaking ("Take a pebble" and "Knife edge" are timeless masterpieces) although Carl Palmer is not my favorite drummer, a matter of taste. Very special was the mellow song "Lucky man" because of the melancholic climate, the warm vocals from Greg Lake and the spectacular finale, based upon a perfectly build-up Moog synthesizer solo, even inventor Bob Moog was highly impressed! ESSENTIAL!!

erik neuteboom | 5/5 | 2005-6-9

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