Renaissance Turn Of The Cards re-issue coming

oh and re "Mother Russia", my first time hearing it was in '76 when I was a "night mother" at a temporary hostel set up specifically for the Montreal 1976 summer olympics.  I am not meant to be a night worker, even though I do love staying up late!  So I was practically comatose and, from the office where the night admin person was sequestered, I heard divine sounds which turned out to be that middle part of "Mother Russia".  I just felt such an emotional rush.  I knew of Renaissance and knew of the song but didn't realize which song it was until Annie came back in.  

oops, had forgotten about the remark I made re "Sands of Time".  I had to look it up!  I can't believe how mixed opinions are on that song.  Are people even listening to it?????  

^ I don't think I knew about your "On the Frontier" love, or I forgot!  Such an awesome song of hope and wonder.  .

Edited by kenethlevine - June 08 2020 at 14:17

I love her inoffensive numbers like "Spare some Love" and "On the Frontier" as much as the classics  

to me, Turn of the Cards, Ashes are Burning, and Song for all Seasons are the best Renaissance studio albums

kenethlevine wrote: oh cool they had a bit of a relationship with Wishbone via Andy Powell, who played lead guitar on the studio version if "Ashes".  If memory serves, they may have returned the favor somewhere along the way by appearing on a Wishbone album, but not sure

kenethlevine wrote: SouthSideoftheSky wrote: kenethlevine wrote: sounds interesting. Isn't live at Academy of Music already available as a legit release?   It also seems like the DVD is not actually of a live perfromance. correct, but just a medium for a surround sound release. Curious about "Everybody needs a friend", an actually unreleased Renaissance track.   Yeah, the most interesting inclusion to me is the unreleased studio track "Everybody needs a friend". The DVD included seems indeed to be a DVD-Audio disc with the studio album mixed in surround sound. I don't know if this live recording is already available, that may very well be the case. probably I'll just wait for the youtube version of the unreleased song! What's disappointing but not surprising is how few of these unreleased tracks there are from their golden age.  But honestly I think the band spent so much time touring that it was hard enough to come up with 40 mins of music annually, let alone extra cuts.

SouthSideoftheSky wrote: kenethlevine wrote: sounds interesting. Isn't live at Academy of Music already available as a legit release?   It also seems like the DVD is not actually of a live perfromance. correct, but just a medium for a surround sound release. Curious about "Everybody needs a friend", an actually unreleased Renaissance track.   Yeah, the most interesting inclusion to me is the unreleased studio track "Everybody needs a friend". The DVD included seems indeed to be a DVD-Audio disc with the studio album mixed in surround sound. I don't know if this live recording is already available, that may very well be the case.

SouthSideoftheSky wrote: Blacksword wrote: I have a CD of this album, and I think I have the original vinyl somewhere, which I bought about 15 years ago, second hand. It's a good album, certainly in the Rennasiance top 3, but it's not worth owning every re-issue on every available format. I'm not sure any album is, to be frank. Yeah, if I already had the album on CD I would probably not bother with this re-issue. But since I don't have it previously, indeed until recently I had no Renaissance CDs, I'm picking these re-issues up now as they come. I have Prologue, Ashes Are Burning, A Song For All Seasons, and Novella. Pre-ordered Turn Of The Cards.

 Outstanding. Better late than never.