Gentle Giant - Three Piece Suite 2017

Gentle Giant / Three Piece Suite (Steven Wilson mix)

Формат записи/Источник записи: [BR][OF]
Год издания/переиздания диска: 2017
Жанр: Progressive Rock
Издатель (лейбл): Alucard
Продолжительность: 03:56:23
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Качество: Blu-ray
Контейнер: BDMV
Видеокодек: MPEG-4 AVC
Аудиокодек: LPCM | DTS-HD Master Audio
Видео: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 19370 kbps / 1080i / 29.970 fps / 16:9 / Main Profile 4.0
Audio: English / DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 96 kHz / 6498 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 6.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio 2: English / LPCM Audio / 5.1 / 96 kHz / 13824 kbps / 24-bit
Audio 3: English / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
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Треклист
The Steven Wilson Remixes
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[*]Giant (from 'Gentle Giant', 1970)
[*]Nothing At All (from 'Gentle Giant', 1970)
[*]Why Not? (from 'Gentle Giant', 1970)
[*]Pantagruel’s Nativity (from 'Acquiring The Taste', 1971)
[*]The House, The Street, The Room (from 'Acquiring The Taste', 1971)
[*]Schooldays (from 'Three Friends', 1972)
[*]Peel The Paint (from 'Three Friends', 1972)
[*]Mister Class And Quality? (from 'Three Friends', 1972)
[*]Three Friends (from 'Three Friends', 1972)
[*]Freedom’s Child (pre-recording contract demo recorded at Philips Studio, Marble Arch)
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Instrumentals (96/24 stereo LPCM)
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[*]Giant
[*]Nothing At All
[*]Why Not?
[*]Pantagruel’s Nativity
[*]The House, The Street, The Room
[*]Schooldays
[*]Peel The Paint
[*]Mister Class and Quality?
[*]Three Friends
[*]Freedom’s Child
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Original Album Mixes (Transferred Flat - 96/24 Stereo LPCM)
Gentle Giant
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[*]Giant
[*]Funny Ways
[*]Alucard
[*]Isn’t It Quiet And Cold?
[*]Nothing At All
[*]Why Not?
[*]The Queen
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Acquiring The Taste
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[*]Pantagruel’s Nativity
[*]Edge Of Twilight
[*]The House, The Street, The Room
[*]Acquiring The Taste
[*]Wreck
[*]The Moon Is Down
[*]Black Cat
[*]Plain Truth
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Three Friends
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[*]Prologue
[*]Schooldays
[*]Working All Day
[*]Peel The Paint
[*]Mister Class And Quality?
[*]Three Friends
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Booklet info
No Walls or Pathways: Revisiting Gentle Giant’s first three albums By Anil Prasad
During the early 70s, the only creative limitations most musicians faced were those of their imaginations. It was a time of unbridled freedom and one the emerging Gentle Giant was determined to harness to the fullest from the outset. Three Piece Suite offers a selection of nine tracks from the British band’s first three albums, as well as one pre-debut album song, remixed into surround sound and new stereo masters by Steven Wilson. The choices were determined by the limited availability of multitrack master tapes from the era. Only a few songs from each album are known to exist as multi-tracks, with the rest presumably lost.
Gentle Giant rose from the ashes of Simon Dupree and the Big Sound, the popular psychedelic rock group featuring the Shulman brothers: Derek on vocals, Phil on vocals, sax and trumpet, and Ray on guitar, violin, trumpet, and vocals. The band released a single album titled Without Reservations in 1967 and garnered a top-10 UK hit single with “Kites” that year. It broke up in 1969 due to the brothers’ frustration with the group’s confines and expectations.
“Our success became a millstone around our necks,” said Derek. “We were suddenly thrust into the world of pop, as opposed to being allowed to be the band that we were, which incorporated R&B, soul and some experimentation. It became demoralizing and we didn’t want to play to pop audiences who expected nothing but hits. Phil, Ray and I said ‘Let’s get out and do something brand new that doesn’t constrict us to a specific audience.’ We had the support of our then-manager Gerry Bron to form a new group and we spent the rest of 1969 looking for better musicians to work with, as well as writing and rehearsing new material.”
The Shulmans retained drummer Martin Smith from the Simon Dupree band and recruited Gary Green, a highly-inventive guitarist with a blues background, and Kerry Minnear, a classically-trained multi-instrumentalist who attended the Royal Academy of Music, where he earned a degree in composition.
Kerry was referred to Phil by a fellow Royal Academy alumni. Gary auditioned the traditional way, but it wasn’t love at first sight.
“I showed up for the audition without knowing the origins of the band,” said Gary. “I saw ‘Simon Dupree and the Big Sound’ on the bass drum and thought “Oh my God. I really don’t like that band or commercial music in general.’
I was purely a blues player at the time. I didn’t know what direction the band was going to go from there. But I discovered they weren’t thrilled with what they had done and were keen to take it in a whole new direction. In particular, Kerry’s presence changed everything. He was such a wonderful writer and creative spark that he in turn set everyone down some adventurous paths. We rapidly all found a new home at once and became a very tight unit.”
A notable Simon Dupree band member that didn’t make the transition to the new group was a keyboardist named Reg Dwight.
“We told Reg we were breaking up Simon Dupree so we can try something new,” said Derek. “Reg wanted to audition for our new band. He played us material like ‘Your Song’ and ‘Skyline Pigeon’ and we thought they weren’t right for us because they were too pop, so we declined his involvement in the new venture. To his credit, he said ‘Good for you. You should move on to new things. You deserve success because you’re great musicians.’ Shortly after, he changed his name to Elton John. We remain friends to this day.”
The new sextet benefited from the spirit of openness in the air, which saw other significant groups of the era morphing into what would eventually become famous classic rock acts.
“The late ‘60s into the early 70s was a spectacular period,” said Derek. “It was a very naive time in terms of the business. It was a very creative scene and there were no walls or pathways to follow. Led Zeppelin came out of The Band of Joy. ELO emerged out of The Move. Uriah Heep sprung from The Gods. Gerry Bron believed in us. But in 1969, we didn’t quite know what our new sound was going to be.”
“What we did know is we wanted to do something that satisfied us and tested us, both musically and lyrically,” said Phil. “We noticed that bands like King Crimson and
Pink Floyd were popping up who were allowed to do their own music without concern about what could possibly sell like ‘Baby, Baby’ and ‘I Love You Darling’ songs. We were allowed that freedom as well and off we went.”
The band initially wanted its name to be Giant, reflecting the ambition and scope of what it sought to achieve, both musically and career-wise. The band’s management had another suggestion for it to consider.
“One of Gerry’s wordsmiths, Colin Richardson, suggested we change the name to Gentle Giant,” said Phil. “His thought was that it better described us because we could play majestically soft stuff with Kerry on cello and Ray on violin, or we could ham it up with powerful amplifiers, going almost heavy metal if we wanted to. So, we accepted that name. We thought it sounded fine.”
The group’s first sessions in early 1970 included several songs that didn’t see release on what was to become the self-titled debut Gentle Giant album, including “Bringing me Down,” “City Hermit,” “Weekend Cowboy,” and “Freedom’s Child,” the latter of which appears on Three Piece Suite.
“‘Freedom’s Child’ is a track I wrote prior to joining the band,” said Kerry. “It was written with a television program in mind that never got made. The Shulman brothers took an interest in it, we changed the words and added a Beach Boys-like vocal harmony to it. The end result was pleasing in an innocent sort of way, but it didn’t reflect our emerging character or the objectives we had in mind for the group.”
“We were really afraid of sounding in any way similar to Simon Dupree,” said Derek. “It’s a ballad influenced by ‘60s soul. Kerry sings the song beautifully, but we felt we had been there, done that and it was time to move on.”
The band proceeded to w