20071224

Track by track 17 Round goes the gossip

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Archive number: 17 Title: Round goes the gossip Main Album: Focus 3 Track number: 1 Genre: Jazz Rock Instrumental/Vocal Studio: Olympic Stud...

Track by track 16 Sylvia

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Archive number: 16 Title: Sylvia Main Album: Focus 3 (also a single in 1972 and 1973) Track number: 3 Genre: Jazz Rock Instrumental Studio: ...

Thijs van Leer: the vocal element

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When it comes to the vocal element in the music of Thijs van Leer then there is a lot more to say, particularly in the life of Focus. Not t...
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20071221

Jan Akkerman: the vocal element

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At first blush the subject looks thin. The man’s a guitarist not a singer and his output has been very much in the area of the instrumental...
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20071220

Thijs van Leer: the classical element

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van Leer on stage with Letty de Jong 1974 Van Leer grew up in a family where classical music was prominent. He himself studied first under ...

Jan Akkerman: the classical element 2

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Tabernakel (1973), Akkerman's third solo album, is again diverse but has several classical elements. On Javeh and Lammy, especially the...

Jan Akkerman: the classical element 1

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The word ‘classical’ has many meanings. Here we use it to refer to older and more traditional musical styles as opposed to more contempor...
20071218

Thijs van Leer: the religious element

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I remember once hearing that Simon and Garfunkel split over a religious difference. There is apparently no truth in the rumour. A conspiracy...

Jan Akkerman: the religious element

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In 1974 Jan Akkerman’s third solo album Tabernakel appeared. I was 15 and, at first, unsure what to make of it. I'd been converted and ...
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20071217

Track by track 15d Eruption (Part 4 - Answer, Orfeus, Euridice)

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Archive number: 15d Title: Eruption (Part 4 - Answer, Orfeus, Euridice) Main Album: Moving Waves ( Focus 2 in Holland) Track number: 6d Gen...
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Track by track 15c Eruption (Part 3 - Euridice, Dayglow, Endless Road)

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Archive number: 15c Title: Eruption (Part 3 - Euridice, Dayglow, Endless Road) Main Album: Moving Waves (Focus 2 in Holland) Track number: 6...

Track by track 15b Eruption (Part 2 - End of Orfeus, Answer, Pupilla, Answer, Tommy, Pupilla, Answer, The Bridge)

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Archive number: 15b Title: Eruption (Part 2 - End of Orfeus, Answer, Pupilla, Answer, Tommy, Pupilla, Answer, The Bridge) Main Album: Moving...

Track by track 15a Eruption (Part 1 - Orfeus, Answer, Orfeus)

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Archive number: 15a Title: Eruption (Part 1 - Orfeus, Answer, Orfeus) Main Album: Moving Waves (Focus 2 in Holland) Track number: 6a Genre: ...

Track by track 14 Focus 2

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Archive number: 14 Title: Focus 2 Main Album: Moving Waves (Focus 2 in Holland). Also a single in 1972. Track number: 5 Genre: Progress...
20071203

Track by track 13 Moving Waves

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Archive number: 13 Title: Moving Waves Main Album: Moving Waves ( Focus 2 in Holland) Track number: 4 Genre: Classical (Piano and voice...
20071201

Track by track 12 Janis

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Archive number: 12 Title: Janis Main Album: Moving Waves ( Focus 2 in Holland) Track number: 3 Genre: Progressive Rock Instrumental (Ea...
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20071130

Track by track 11 Le Clochard

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Archive number: 11 Title: Le Clochard (Bread) Main Album: Moving Waves ( Focus 2 in Holland) Track number: 2 Genre: Classical Instrume...

Track by track 10 Hocus Pocus

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Archive number: 10 Title: Hocus Pocus Main Album: Moving Waves ( Focus 2 in Holland) (Also a single in edited form in 1971, 1972, 1973 an...

Track by track 9 House of the King

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Archive number: 9 Title: House of the King Main Album: In and Out of Focus (Left off the American album, it is on the album Focus 3 . It ...
20071128

Track by track 8 Spoke the Lord Creator

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Archive number: 8 Title: Spoke the Lord Creator Main Album: Ship of Memories Track number: 7 Genre: Progressive Rock Instrumental Stud...

Track by track 7 Focus (instrumental)

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Archive number: 7 Title: Focus (Instrumental) [Also known as Focus 1] Main Album: In and Out of Focus (Also on a single 1970) Track numb...
20071127

Track by track 6 Why Dream

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Archive number: 6 Title: Why dream Main Album: In and Out of Focus (Also a single in 1970) Track number: 6 (second on the Sire release) ...