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Sea Airs
''Sea Airs'' is a piano album written by rock musician Rick Wakeman and released in November 1989. It is the second in a trilogy of New Age piano albums. The first album in the trilogy is ''Country Airs'' and the third album in the trilogy is '' Night Airs''.RWCC > Rick Wakeman Discography/ref> Track listing #"Harbour Lights" 5:15 #"The Pirate" 4:39 #"Storm Clouds" 3:34 #"Lost at Sea" 3:25 #"The Mermaid" 3:26 #"Waves" 3:29 #"The Fisherman" 3:30 #"Flying Fish" 3:14 #"The Marie Celeste" 4:37 #"Time and Tide" 4:3 #"The Lone Sailor" 3:43 #"The Sailor's Lament" 4:35 Personnel *Rick Wakeman - piano, production Trivia By accident, a couple of the tracks on ''Sea Airs'' were destined for '' Night Airs'' and vice versa. However, they somehow ended up on the wrong CDs. As the CDs had already been pressed and mastered the only solution was for Rick Wakeman Richard Christopher Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboardist best known as a former mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Wakeman
Richard Christopher Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboardist best known as a former member of the progressive rock band Yes across five tenures between 1971 and 2004, and for his solo albums released in the 1970s. Born and raised in West London, Wakeman intended to be a concert pianist but quit his studies at the Royal College of Music in 1969 to become a full-time session musician. His early sessions included playing on "Space Oddity", among others, for David Bowie, and songs by Junior's Eyes, T. Rex, Elton John, and Cat Stevens. Wakeman became a member of The Strawbs in 1970 before joining Yes a year later, playing on some of their most successful albums across two stints until 1980. Wakeman began his solo career in 1973; his highest-selling solo albums are his first three, '' The Six Wives of Henry VIII'' (1973), ''Journey to the Centre of the Earth'' (1974), and ''The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table'' (1975), all concept alb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President Records
President Records is a British independent record label. It is one of the oldest independent record companies in the UK, originally launched in 1957 by Edward Kassner. During the 1960s and 1970s the label, and its subsidiary Jay Boy, had hits with artists including the Equals, George McCrae and KC & the Sunshine Band, Paintbox, and later focused on releasing back-catalogue compilations as well as occasional new albums by artists such as Robots In Disguise. President Records remains part of the Kassner Music Group. Beginnings President Records Inc, with which song publisher Edward Kassner became involved through one of his publishing contacts, was a record label founded on 6 June 1955 in the midst of the burgeoning independent music scene in New York. A corresponding British company was established by Kassner in May 1957, when he acquired the full company, initially to license some of the productions made in the name of the US company to major UK record labels such as Decca. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Airs
''Country Airs'' is a studio album by English keyboadist Rick Wakeman. It was released in 1986 by Coda Records, and features piano instrumentals inspired by the countryside. The album marked a stylistic shift in Wakeman's output, having established himself primarily with progressive rock, concept albums, and commercial-oriented music at the start of the 1980s. The album reached number one on the UK New Age chart. It was followed by two sequels, '' Sea Airs'' and '' Night Airs'', released in 1989 and 1990, respectively for President Records President Records is a British independent record label. It is one of the oldest independent record companies in the UK, originally launched in 1957 by Edward Kassner. During the 1960s and 1970s the label, and its subsidiary Jay Boy, had hits .... A re-recording with four new compositions was released in 1992, also published by President. Wakeman later revealed that he regretted this version, doing it only because Coda had gone bankrupt, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Airs
Night Airs is the third album in a trilogy of piano albums by British rock musician Rick Wakeman. The first album in the trilogy is '' Country Airs'', and the second is '' Sea Airs''. Track listing #"The Sad Dream" — 5:04 #"Twilight" — 4:19 #"The Sleeping Child" — 4:40 #"Mr. Badger" — 4:45 #"Jack Frost" — 3:50 #"The Lone Star" — 4:14 #"Rain Shadows" — 5:07 #"Fox By Night" — 3:46 #"Night Owls" — 4:39 #"An Evening Romance" — 5:01 Trivia By accident, a couple of the tracks on '' Sea Airs'' were destined for ''Night Airs'' and vice versa. However, they somehow ended up on the wrong CDs. As the CDs had already been pressed and mastered the only solution was for Rick Wakeman to change the titles of the tracks involved at the last minute. However, he has never owned up to which tracks ended up on the wrong CDs. Personnel *Rick Wakeman - piano, production References {{Authority control Rick Wakeman albums New-age albums 1989 albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Age
New Age is a range of spiritual or religious practices and beliefs which rapidly grew in Western society during the early 1970s. Its highly eclectic and unsystematic structure makes a precise definition difficult. Although many scholars consider it a religious movement, its adherents typically see it as spiritual or as unifying Mind-Body-Spirit, and rarely use the term ''New Age'' themselves. Scholars often call it the New Age movement, although others contest this term and suggest it is better seen as a ''milieu'' or ''zeitgeist''. As a form of Western esotericism, the New Age drew heavily upon esoteric traditions such as the occultism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including the work of Emanuel Swedenborg and Franz Mesmer, as well as Spiritualism, New Thought, and Theosophy. More immediately, it arose from mid-twentieth century influences such as the UFO religions of the 1950s, the counterculture of the 1960s, and the Human Potential Movement. Its exact origins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 Albums
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