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Phil Manzanera is an English guitarist (of Colombian descent) who's best-known as a long-time member of Roxy Music (from 1972 to 1982). The Spanish influences can clearly be heard on many of Phil Manzanera's albums, especially in his collaborations with 801, Corroncho, Tania Libertad & Sergio Dias. He's also worked with his fellow Roxy Music bandmate Andy Mackay, and their albums are coming up here next. 1975: Phil Manzanera - Diamond Head - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lYF4-oOd7YVWstV5MLzcsxJisGCgcsNRY 1976: Phil Manzanera & 801 - Live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOG7SfERU0k 1977: Phil Manzanera & 801 - Listen Now - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lutC2BDDpfYJcRD81j1P6rmTCQu2eWj-I 1978: Phil Manzanera - K-Scope - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nm5KHB9teqyYXSU__wRvM0bj1RmjlWzuk 1982: Phil Manzanera - Primitive Guitars - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nYVvm-QLSn1loO4pME_agEsi3_P-Vz-bQ 1986: Phil Manzanera - Guitarissimo 75-82 - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lv-QbVvKrKbG_Vs7DipjuENje5iraDuE8 1987: Phil Manzanera & John Wetton - Wetton/Manzanera - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTCHZJbJm7G2bsSHAVrEYOGHuFqr3z9nN 1988: Phil Manzanera & Nowomowa - The Wasted Lands - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LyzFbAIwqY 1990: Phil Manzanera & Sergio Dias - Mato Grosso - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mSuGJAW9CeGre1rsUledMAvUXkqlpsKJY 1990: Phil Manzanera - Southern Cross - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKnfmTQwNxhVvlF1mGri5wWmIpyuMRwcy 1991: Phil Manzanera & Tania Libertad - Boleros Hoy - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lbQI_OZ0SlqFJsps4zAS1NwFgUgaBqmLI 1999: Phil Manzanera - Vozero - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nhRgI2gYa7Hy1sndSk0bxojxz1-92ne1o 2004: Phil Manzanera - 6:00 pm - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_maO9kxjB3jpjfFBL1tDhg4yrPUWVJ05Pc 2005: Phil Manzanera - 50 Minutes Later - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m2-BTQn_hK5O2v3j3Dbu8hJM4aK0xQAV0 2008: Phil Manzanera - Corroncho - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_khz-G3dfzXrAy7154WysaFArKveV70LaQ 2008: Phil Manzanera - Firebird V11 - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n3aKL1Upwp6qbDMXYWohCj1WTbDHwcE1Y 2011: Phil Manzanera & 801 - Latino - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_niYGcpBL_IfNdgmJuHouuqGgQpzNv5aT0 2012: Phil Manzanera & Anna Le - Nth Entities - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kTV5onCc3MYkt8G45n1mnl8hCaM8d_iC0 2015: Phil Manzanera - The Sound of Blue - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kiE7iBZjNIj6e7-JWWJcsj7cxGkHKZPC4 2016: Phil Manzanera - Live at the Curious Arts Festival - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k-R6_XPdLY_JLaeNh1nWnl4FQOpgfo1Eg 2017: Phil Manzanera - Live in Japan - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsPbbklz1Q_sj7WPVvoFbKS85YNU73Fju 2017: Phil Manzanera - Corroncho 2 - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mVV0wosuSqL8fjxYmG-ycNM2TJMkAd7Cs 2021: Phil Manzanera & Tim Finn - Caught by the Heart - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kZcASrsqWxGdQy0n3jG4fYNRuqypHEx5w 2022: Phil Manzanera & Tim Finn - The Ghost of Santiago - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_leq33fiOQ-XUwmeQvkzLTFJSet8Y1UMIA Edited by Psychedelic Paul - November 08 2022 at 18:32 |
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Prog Britannia Twelve: A-Z Album Links
Guitarist Phil Manzanera and saxophonist Andy Mackay of Roxy Music fame. I'd recommend skipping the first four albums and listening to the sublime Roxymphony - the symphonic Roxy Music! 1985: Manzanera & Mackay - The Explorers - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh7ocPDw688 1988: Manzanera & Mackay - Crack the Whip - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwBAVklFLIWOcdUzbyt9zdLHMsHw-bpyG 1989: Manzanera & Mackay - Up in Smoke - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwBAVklFLIWOqsXI_b5Uymu6oVnpuVoSf 2001: Manzanera & Mackay - The Complete Explorers - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mlW3fCnQhbULKI-rJN6hpVowLwdsTKeX4 2019: Manzanera & Mackay - Roxymphony - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kUT8_u8ES5Q4afNk7iGSItbLLZjSEAclk
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Baby, it's cold outside, so why not stay warm inside by chilling out at home with some cool, smooth jazz, courtesy of Neil Ardley. 1969: Neil Ardley - Greek Variations - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m2i7KDjx6dXOSX3wcx8KFTFKAqudjpFH8 1971: Neil Ardley - A Symphony of Amaranths - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mJfWBD65a8IKvgQt0Is4rB99mpKwv2crY 1973: Neil Ardley - Mike Taylor Remembered - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nXVaqgET5sVqhitU_2VqFPiTicVmoiN48 1976: Neil Ardley - Kaleidoscope of Rainbows - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgdfA4YJWP0 1979: Neil Ardley - Harmony of the Spheres - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxDzhRp4I8o
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OMD - Messages (or how to make a great music video in a crappy old disused warehouse) |
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Just hopping back to the Manzanera list, I agree with your rankings of the "Vozero", "6.00PM", "50 Minutes Later" trilogy of albums. They are a solid set of albums and well worth a listen. I would however give both "K-Scope" and "Now Listen" an extra star each. I have enjoyed these albums for some time and think they deserve more attention. BTW, I'm looking forward to the OMD rankings. I have listened to them since their debut and am well interested in how you rank their output, especially considering the changes in style they went through.
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That's the first time I've ever listened to Phil Manzanera and two albums that really stands out for me is The Sound of Blue and Roxymphony by Manzanera and Mackay. 2015: Phil Manzanera - The Sound of Blue - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kiE7iBZjNIj6e7-JWWJcsj7cxGkHKZPC4 2019: Manzanera & Mackay - Roxymphony - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kUT8_u8ES5Q4afNk7iGSItbLLZjSEAclk OMD have been a favourite band of mine ever since I first heard "Messages" on Top of the Pops and the albums are sounding good so far too. Even the potential career-ending Dazzle Ships album has its good moments - an experimental album that gave OMD's record company a fit of apoplexy at the time of its release. Ultravox are coming up here later too.
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"Dazzle Ships" is certainly a challenging listen but they absolutely hit the mark with the previously released "Architecture and Morality". I had that album on high rotation for a long time and still go back to it quite often. It's one of those albums I can listen to from start to finish. They went on to become very poppy and I have a feeling you will like those more "commercial" sounding later albums. Ultravox had their (very good) moments but I always had a niggling feeling of wasted potential with them. Billie Currie went on to make a couple of albums with Steve Howe.
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^ The ultimate Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark album is "Messages: OMD Greatest Hits" including a free DVD of all 31 of OMD's music videos, which makes for a nice Souvenir of the Synth Pop 1980's era.
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Oh, btw, getting back to Phil Manzanera, I reckon if you like "The Sound of Blue" so much you might also appreciate "The Wasted Lands" released by him under the name Nowomowa:
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^ You're right. I do like it and I already included the Nowomowa album amongst Phil Manzanera's albums in the list above.
1988: Phil Manzanera & Nowomowa - The Wasted Lands - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LyzFbAIwqY
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Oops, sorry. Didn't spot it listed there.
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That's okay. I remember the Nowomowa album mainly for the difficulty I had in spelling it correctly.
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Nowomowa, Nowomowa, in the jungle, the mighty jungle this album hid from view.
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At least it's nowhere near as hard to spell as "Taumatawhakatangihangakoayauo-Tamateaturipukakapikimaungahoro-Nukypokaiwhenuakitanatahu" from the opening to "The Lone Ranger" by Quantum Jump. |
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Prog Britannia Twelve: A-Z Album Links Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys: better-known as Synth-Pop duo Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (or OMD) although they were a foursome to begin with. 1980: OMD - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mNLlvHvNXlVeMYDEkkP89Oa-vFVys0_0c 1980: OMD - Organisation - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mwQNCjWqs_zmRpHGgDx1Zn5WVwFYJ5ZM0 1981: OMD - Architecture & Morality - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_llnjyPTsTwxqfDKPqv9lgfi5o2EcyhxWk 1983: OMD - Dazzle Ships - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_knhgvKa011WtzsnPtbwS_V0j3hQc1u6bQ 1984: OMD - Junk Culture - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mGhEbpAqk6gwigQOv9WKY_ONcRmdLHNFw 1985: OMD - Crush - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lZCzsp24VygdKFt0uT0PmlCytOgBF_Vms 1986: OMD - The Pacific Age - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kWvUfW9aEtBB4QfjwV7h6JD2XWCdhfYbc 1991: OMD - Sugar Tax - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n_2u5cc0w9fO4mnJOiwilcUtTPbpYo4h8 1993: OMD - Liberator - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_me7FlQQdKZu-LpTGir-7PrD2_cjzi_1pA 1996: OMD - Universal - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lZsxMJhr98NY0loOccGFY2SOODU6M-usQ 2008: OMD - Messages: OMD Greatest Hits - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKN_RenfPlUlAuDaf5ypLYcPydTBa_zBY 2009: OMD - Electricity: Live in Liverpool - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wuSgegC8SU 2010: OMD - History of Modern - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_movyUlD7hndqlRojWk7W7UwNKZd-LkODI 2013: OMD - English Electric - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kmuYhe0AGzGPKShFGSx2oN9EJQMu_Gbb8 2017: OMD - The Punishment of Luxury - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lt46x-1At-Y-_VbQxucO40xYMdx5wuZ7g Edited by Psychedelic Paul - November 10 2022 at 03:59 |
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Also interesting to note that three albums ("Sugar Tax", "Liberator" and "Universal") were recorded by McCluskey without Humphreys being involved, sort of like what Roland Orzabal did with Tears for Fears for a couple of albums. I agree with pretty much all your ratings for the OMD albums although I would bump "Architecture and Morality" up to five stars, and I am not as enamored with the singles collection as you clearly are. If you're going to include compilation albums you might have also considered including "Navigation: the OMD B Sides". Edited by Hugh Manatee - November 10 2022 at 16:01 |
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Thanks Hugh. I somehow missed that B-Sides album when I was navigating my way through OMD's discography.
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London-born Brendan Perry is a singer and multi-instrumentalist in the Neo-Classical Dark Wave genre who's best-known as one half of the Dead Can Dance duo. He moved with his family to New Zealand in 1973 and then to Melbourne in 1981 where he met his romantic and musical life-time partner Lisa Gerrard. The most recent Brendan Perry album, released in 2020, is the most Greek-influenced album you've heard since Demis Roussos first warbled his way through Forever and Ever back in the 1970's, so break out the ouzo and mousssaka and get ready to smash a few plates in the fireplace.
1999: Brendan Perry - Eye of the Hunter - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mN-9QQBUu3bqgV3EphM1W20Tr5Ni0gsxw 2010: Brendan Perry - Ark - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n38LJ1h5hrBlFJ709AqMoYLQzq23_oJmc 2020: Brendan Perry - Songs of Disenchantment: Music from the Greek Underground - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLG-nMWHN5SkdKREmzNadM8q1n_Agm4obl |
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1974: Refugee - Refugee - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nG-RTCCYxE9besjxl_fhHtO451IeKuaVA REFUGEE were a short-lived Symphonic Prog threesome from London. You could be forgiven for thinking Phil Collins was a member of Refugee, because the man in the middle on their one and only self-titled album cover from 1974 bears a striking resemblance to the Genesis drummer. There's no mistaking Swiss keyboard player Patrick Moraz on the right of the album cover though. He was brought in as a last-minute replacement for Keith Emerson, who was otherwise engaged with the Prog- Rock supergroup Emerson, Lake & Palmer at the time. The other two members of Refugee besides Patrick Moraz were both ex-members of The Nice:- Lee Jackson on bass, electric cello, electric guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar and lead vocals, and Brian Davison on drums and percussion, where "percussion" meant virtually anything the versatile drummer could lay his hands on, including tympani, various gongs, Tibetan temple bells, African drums, kabassa (whatever that is!?) and broken glass! Patrick Moraz wasn't exactly slacking in the keyboards department either with this very impressive array of keyboard instruments at his disposal:- Mini- moog, AKS synthesiser, piano, electric piano, clavinet, organ, pipe organ, marimbaphone, alpine horn, electronic slinky, mellotron, and occasional vocals too! Patrick Moraz would of course go on to be a member of YES and a "days of future passed" member of The Moody Blues. Who could forget the famous music trial of the century!? The sole Refugee album was recorded in 1974 at ART Studios in Geneva in Patrick Moraz' native Switzerland, so he would have felt right at home there, whereas the two English members of the band, Lee Jackson and Brian Davison were temporary "refugees". The title of the imperious 5-minute-long opening number "Papillon" can have several meanings:- Either a black butterfly; a symbolic breaking free of societal restraints and restrictions; or even a toy breed of dog with large butterfly-like ears! One thing's for sure though, the "Papillon" on this album is no delicate butterfly. No, this is an aggressive and impressive Pictures at an Exhibition-style display of powerful keyboard prog in the best tradition of Emerson, Lake & Palmer. There's no shortage of classically-inspired, lightning-speed keyboard runs to be heard from Patrick Moraz in this tremendous instrumental album opener, which also features a storming salvo of machine-gun-like drumming from Brian Davison. Yes, it looks like we could be in for quite a treat here with this gloriously pompous one-off album of unashamedly exhibitionistic Symphonic Prog. On the second song "Someday", We get to hear the emotionally-wrought (and some might say "over-blown") vocals of Lee Jackson for the first time, which also features another incredible keyboard performance from Patrick Moraz before he went on to join YES for their "Relayer" album in late 1974. "Someday" is one of those grand magisterial prog epics that gathers in pace and intensity as it progresses, so it could be described as the true definition of Progressive Rock. If "Papillon" represented a symbolic breaking-free, then "Someday" continues the theme of liberation with the powerful message contained within these lyrics:- "Someday, I'll go away, Pack my bag, Get on a plane, I'll fly up through my cloud, I'll smash right through, Right into the sun." ..... This is the kind of powerfully uplifting feel-good prog that'll leave you flying high on a wave of joyous and exhilarating emotion. If you haven't quite reached seventh prog heaven yet, then the third piece of music might help get you there, because next up is the awesome 17-minute-long, "Grand Canyon" suite, the first of two epic suites on the album. This magnificent five-part magnum opus is every bit as grandiose and spectacular as the song title implies. Be prepared to be stunned by this brilliant landscape of dazzling musical colours. The outstanding "Grand Canyon" suite represents the musical equivalent of the real Grand Canyon bathed in rich golden colours at sunset. The title of the Side Two opener "Ritt Mickley" is a humorous reference to the strong Swiss accent of Patrick Moraz when he pronounces "rhythmically". It's another 6-minute-long demonstration of ELP-style keyboard prog at it's absolute best, so you can expect another dazzling display of keyboard histrionics from Mr Moraz & Co. The final piece of music on the album is the second of the two epic suites. It's a thunderous 18-minute-long masterpiece titled "Credo". The majestic music is divided into eight movements of stunning symphonic splendour and delight, which just HAS to be heard to be believed. This is incredible! You can't fail to be over-awed by this stunning display of ELP-style keyboard prog. This outstanding one-off album has a treasured place in the hallowed halls of ProgArchives. Refugee might not be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, but they truly deserve to be included with full honours and flags flying with this very impressive powerhouse debut! |
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Prog Britannia Twelve: A-Z Album Links 1973: Peter Sinfield - Still - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mIU-3ITDlST6NF6m6REFoxNb4tZl5OLwE Edited by Psychedelic Paul - November 12 2022 at 09:31 |
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