Label: Victor Records (Japan), VICP-63172
Style: Symphonic Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 39:08
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 281 Mb
After
their debut live gigs in August 1970, the band toured across the UK and
Europe for the rest of the year, during which their debut album,
Emerson, Lake & Palmer, was released. While on tour, Emerson found
that he and drummer Carl Palmer were exploring more complex rhythmic
ideas. He took patterns that Palmer was playing on his practise drum
pads and found that they complemented runs that he had developed on the
piano, and used this as a basis for material on Tarkus. The group
approached the album by having a centrepiece track in order to establish
a concept, but a definite story or idea for it had not been discussed
at this stage.
The group paused touring commitments in December 1970
and set the following month aside to record. As with their debut, the
band recorded at Advision Studios in London with Lake handling the
production duties and Eddy Offord returning as engineer. Early into the
sessions Emerson presented the basis of the title track to Lake and
Palmer; Lake was less than enthusiastic with its direction and
threatened to leave the group. A subsequent meeting amongst the band and
their management convinced Lake to stay, and he went on to contribute
to the track and most of the other songs on the album including the
lyrics, for which he used the artwork as inspiration. Although Lake
thought the opening was "too demonstrative" for the sake of being
clever, he did not want to split the group over such an issue and got
into the album as recording went on. The band could only work out
"Tarkus" during the January 1971 studio sessions, so they booked further
time at Adivsion in February to work on side two, for which they had no
material prepared.
The album was features artwork by Scottish artist
William Neal, whose armadillo has since became an iconic image in
progressive rock. Neal was involved with the London-based CCS Associates
which typically produced art for reggae albums but occasionally they
were given other records to work on, which was the case with Tarkus.
When the band rejected the designs already completed, Neal recalled: "On
one of my drawings, there was a small doodle at the bottom of the page.
This was of an armadillo with tank tracks on it but it was just an idea
that wasn't really going anywhere." It originated from one of Neal's
initial designs of a machine gun with a belt of bullets replaced by a
row of keyboard keys, which he inadvertently sketched on with a pencil
during a phone conversation which produced the tank image. Emerson liked
it and suggested it be developed "into more of a cartoon story", as by
which point he had written "Tarkus" and thought the music fit with the
imagery. Neal was given a copy of the album to listen to while he
completed the final cover, which inspired the other drawings. The
gatefold presents eleven panels that illustrate the events of the title
track, beginning with an erupting volcano, below which Tarkus emerges
from an egg. Tarkus then faces a number of cybernetic creatures,
culminating in the battle against the manticore which stings Tarkus's
eye, and Tarkus retreats bleeding into a river.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarkus)
01. Tarkus (20:52)
02. Jeremy Bender (01:49)
03. Bitches Crystal (03:59)
04. The Only Way (Hymn) (03:50)
05. Infinite Space (Conclusion) (03:21)
06. A Time And A Place (03:01)
07. Are You Ready Eddy (02:13)
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