Instrumentals are probably the best and most distinctive aspect of The Alan Parsons Project. Then he stops and a haunting instrumental begins. I mean, in A Dream Within A Dream, first it’s Orson Wells who says a few words, while some instruments start stirring slowly in the background. Tales Of Mystery And Imagination- Edgar Allan Poe is a true masterpiece, although you may have to read some stories by Poe first.Īs in the next four albums, Tales Of Mystery And Imagination opens with an instrumental. Their first album is, if not the best, one of their two or three best ones.
Only after their separation would Parsons start touring, using the songs born during their time together, while Woolfson dedicated himself to musical theatre. However, there would be no concerts during those years, as they remained a studio band. They would soon start their partnership, which would last fifteen years, in which ten albums were produced. Once both men were there, they saw each other immediately… because they were the tallest men in the room.
Parsons and Woolfson met in 1975 at Abbey Road Studios. Quite a good one, in fact: previously to the birth of the Project, he was involved in the making of The Beatles’ Abbey Road and Let It Be, Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon (Pink Floyd even credit him as an important contributor… he was paid 35 dollars a week though… ok, that meant more back then) and Atom Heart Mother, and Al Stewart’s Year Of The Cat, amongst other albums. In most songs, it was Eric who would have the idea for the song and then Alan would give it a shape, as he was an audio engineer. It was basically Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson surrounded by a bunch of session musicians (although some of them were regulars, like Ian Bairnson and his distinctive electric guitar, singer Lenny Zakatek and Andrew Powell and his orchestral arrangements).
The Alan Parsons Project is a prog rock/soft rock/whatever you want to call it band which is atypical in some aspects, as you will see.įirst of all, the band didn’t have many regular members. Well well, I feel a bit lazy (I mean, more than usual) so this time I’ll talk about a band I don’t have to research much about, as it’s one of my favourites and I already know a few things about them.
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