Refugee (Band)
Refugee is an English progressive rock band.
History
After the dissolution of The Nice keyboardist Keith Emerson by Lee Jackson and Brian Davison founded the band Jackson Heights and Brian Davison's Every Which Way, which they, however, both could not continue the success of The Nice. 1973 Jackson became aware of the Swiss keyboardist Patrick Moraz, who had previously been active in the group Main Horse (her only album released in 1971 ). An Emerson technically coequal virtuoso, though stylistically jazz a little more inclined than this ( at Moraz can be heard clearly influenced by Bill Evans, Jan Hammer and Maurice Ravel, Emerson rather those of Oscar Peterson and Alberto Ginastera ), he saw in him great potential, and together they started writing material for the next Jackson Heights album. However, it soon became clear that the new material for Jackson's band was too heavy, and she was approached by Brian Davison, who seemed to them to be the right thing for an entirely new project. Together with him, they wanted to continue the concept of keyboard trios, and build on the better days of The Nice.
The three musicians have been able to come together sooner, because Keith Emerson, who Moraz had met on the occasion of The- Nice- concert in Switzerland, had this been proposed as a replacement for himself, after he had left The Nice. But Jackson and Davison had been unwilling to continue immediately.
Getting a contract with Tony Stratton -Smith, was surprisingly easy for everyone involved and immediately work began on an album called Refugee in Iceland Studios. Images do not always proved to be easy, because between the recording sessions, the band played already first concerts (the first in London's Roundhouse on December 2, 1973) and Partick Moraz, who had little studio experience, Keyboard Track laid on Keyboard Track, which allows the producer John Burns made extremely difficult to mix the album. In addition, Davison suffered from a severe drinking problem. The album was released in Stratton - Smith's Charisma Records label progressive rock. The LP was published in 1974, however, the outstanding material and the success of the plate ( it was ranked 28th in the English " Melody Maker " charts entered ) in spite of a unique project.
Refugee completed a successful concert tour and even had an offer to tour with Eric Clapton. In addition, a second album was already being planned. But after a final concert on August 13, 1974 at the Roundhouse Moraz left the band - he had received earlier in the month succeeding Rick Wakeman offered at Yes, an offer he could not refuse, given the success of this band. Moraz is on the Yes - studio album Relayer ( published on 5 December 1974) to hear. On the tour for this album, he played under his keyboard solos are some excerpts from the Refugee album ( from Papillon Grand Canyon ). Some of material that would eventually appear on a second Refugee album, he worked in the next year for his solo album, The Story of I, another appeared on the Refugee live album in 2007. Jackson and Davison (the latter after a brief stint with Gong, as a replacement for Bill Bruford ) ended soon after their musical careers, to Keith Emerson The Nice in 2002 revived for a short time.
In March 2007, a concert recording from Newcastle City Hall ( 1974) has been published in the English record label Voiceprint, the studio album contains two strongly umkomponierte The- Nice covers and two previously unknown pieces of Refugee addition to some pieces.
In the context of this publication, the contact between Moraz, Jackson and Davison had intensified again. For a time, reunion concerts in Europe were in conversation. On 15 April 2008 Brian Davison died but fündundsechzigjährig a brain tumor.
In 2010 appeared via Floating World Records 2- CD set, containing both the 1974 studio album as well as the 1974 concert recording. The booklet contains detailed liner notes by Martyn Hanson, who published, among others books to The Nice and ELP.
Discography
- Refugee (1974 )
- Live album
Sources and links
- Hanson, Martyn: The story of The Nice: Hanging on to a Dream. London 2002. ISBN 1900924439th
- Macan, Edward: Endless Enigma. A musical biography of Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Open Court Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 2006. ISBN 0812695968
- Interviews with Moraz on Notes from the Edge
- Band Info and Reviews on Baby Blue Pages
- A comprehensive bibliography on the Progressive Rock can be found on the sides of the Progressive Rock Bibliography ( ), an English-speaking, but the German site.
- Voiceprint Records
- Progressive rock band
- English band