Turn of the Cards
Occupation
- Vocals: Annie Haslam
- Keyboards, background vocals John Tout
- Bass, vocals Jon Camp
- Drums, percussion: Terence Sullivan
- Acoustic guitar, backing vocals Michael Dunford
Turn of the Cards is the fifth studio album by the British progressive rock group Renaissance. It was recorded and released in 1974.
Background
Turn of the Cards was the first release of BTM (British talent manager ) Records. The label was founded by Miles Copeland III, who was already a producer of Prologue. All the pieces of the plate are shown as a work of the duo Michael Dunford and Betty Thatcher, but this is incorrect.
Things I Do not Understand is a song by Michael Dunford and Jim McCarty, who was played a long time in concerts before the release of this album. On the U.S. release of the label Sire he is correctly identified as the work of Dunford / McCarty.
The intro of Running hardware corresponds to the piece Litanies by Jehan Alain. Cold is Being based on the Adagio which is attributed to Tomaso Albinoni. In the notes of the CD published in 1994 by Repertoire Records says: " Thanks to Albinoni for Cold is Being, and that is thanks to Jehan Alain for the opening piano of Running Hard. "
Mother Russia was written as a tribute to the writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who was expelled in February 1974 from the Soviet Union. The text is inspired by Solzhenitsyn's first book A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
The orchestral arrangements are from Jimmy Horowitz.
Title list
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Reviews
Turn Of The Cards " " opened by a long piano intro evolved " to another suspense-filled journey into the microcosm of this British band gods. They may not be as bombastic as YES, not always as catchy as KANSAS, come up with fewer hits like GENESIS; but compositionally / dramatic play in their league! It is not even electric guitars and still an old metalhead like me flip over and over again the jaw down. "
" The highlight of this album and one of the best Renaissance title at all is the closing" Mother Russia ", a song about Alexander Solzhenitsyn ( " The Gulag Archipelago " ), which was expatriated in 1974 from the Soviet Union. There are in fact not only dragons and elves, which are covered in Prog ... Suitable contains on this topic " Mother Russia " some elements of Russian folklore. "