Solar Fire
Occupation
- Manfred Mann
- Mick Rogers
- Colin Pattenden
- Chris Slade
Solar Fire is the fourth studio album by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. It appeared in 1973 with Bronze Records.
Creation and publication
The album was recorded in London in 1973 in the Workhouse Studios and released in the same year as the first album of the band on Bronze Records. It resulted in continued motives of single Joybringer, which was an adaptation of Gustav Holst's orchestral suite The Planets.
Title list
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Page 2
Bonus tracks 1998
Style
Solar Fire lets the blues-rock of the first three albums largely behind and is attributed to the progressive rock. There are also some passages with jazz-rock jam session and flair. The pieces often have complex structures, it can be found both quiet and powerful passages. Keyboard and guitar are played with virtuosity and take an equal roles. Richard Foss of Allmusic compares the album in places with King Crimson.
Father of Day, Father of Night is an adaptation of a song by Bob Dylan. A single version thereof and the Single Joybringer had appeared on a 1998, contain remastered version of the album.
Earth, the Circle Part 1 ( arrangement behind Part 2, sic) is an adaptation of Jimbo 's Lullaby from the piano suite Children's Corner by Claude Debussy; nevertheless indicated as the sole composer husband.
Reception
Jochen beef Frey of the Baby Blue Pages provides Manfred Mann's Earth Band here at the height of their creative powers, Christian Rode deemed the album " just perfect " because " [w ] hat concerns the quality of the compositions, the virtuosity and conceptual implementation, it takes Manfred Mann here with all sizes of the 'real' prog on ". The music magazine eclipsed chose Solar Fire to its list of the 150 most important prog albums.