EMERSON LAKE & PALMER - Pictures At An Exhibition - 180 GRAM AUDIOPHILE VINYL LP
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EMERSON LAKE & PALMER
Pictures At An Exhibition
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab US
numbered 180 gram audiophile vinyl LP Cat: MFSL 1617Rel: 27 Apr 26
Progressive Rock Side 1 - Track 1. Promenade Side 1 - Track 2. The Gnome Side 1 - Track 3. Promenade Side 1 - Track 4. The Sage Side 1 - Track 5. The Old Castle Side 1 - Track 6. Blues Variation Side 2 - Track 1. Promenade Side 2 - Track 2. The Hut Of Baba Yaga Side 2 - Track 3. The Curse Of Baba Yaga Side 2 - Track 4. The Hut Of Baba Yaga Side 2 - Track 5. The Great Gates Of Kiev Side 2 - Track 6. The End Side 2 - Track 7. Nutrocker
Recorded on tour in 1971, this live set finds Emerson, Lake & Palmer treating Mussorgsky's piano suite as raw material rather than repertoire. The Newcastle performance crackles with risk. Tempos flex, sections stretch, and the music often sounds as if it might tip over, only to be pulled back into line by instinct and muscle memory. Keith Emerson's keyboards dominate, not just in volume but in character, veering between stately grandeur and scorched-earth attack. Carl Palmer's drumming is sharply etched, alert to every turn, while Greg Lake's vocals add a human centre to the spectacle. What reveals itself is less a transcription than a reimagining, shaped by momentum, touch and a hunger to push form outward.
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