FOCUS
Focus é uma banda de rock progressivo holandesa fundada em 1969 pelo organista e flautista Thijs van Leer, sendo hoje considerada como uma das maiores e mais importantes desse estilo musical. Suas extensas e quase exclusivas composições instrumentais e improvisações continham várias referências à música erudita. Um exemplo é a referência à ópera de Monteverdi na canção “Eruption”, do álbum Moving Waves. Outra demonstração está na referência a Johann Sebastian Bach em “Carnival Fugue”, do álbum Focus 3, ou ainda das referências ao Renascimento de “Anonymus II”, do mesmo álbum. Fonte: Wikipedia
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Álbuns
IN AND OUT OF FOCUS (1970)
01. Focus (Instrumental)
02. Why Dream
03. Happy Nightmare
04. Anonymus
05. Black Beauty
06. Sugar Island
07. Focus
MOVING WAVES (1971)
01. Hocus Pocus
02. Le Clochard (Bread)
03. Janis
04. Moving Waves
05. Focus II
06. Eruption
– Orfeus
– Answer
– Orfeus
– Answer
– Pupilla
– Tommy
– Pupilla
– Answer
– The Bridge
– Euridice
– Dayglow
– Endless Road
– Answer
– Orfeus
– Euridice
FOCUS 3 (1972)
01. Round Goes the Gossip
02. Love Remembered
03. Sylvia
04. Carnival Fugue
05. Focus III
06. Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers!
07. Elspeth of Nottingham
08. Anonymus Two
AT THE RAINBOW (1973)
(Live at The Rainbow Theatre, London, 5 May 1973)
01. Focus III
02. Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers!
03. Focus II
04. Eruption (Excerpt):
– Orfeus
– Answer
– Orfeus
– Answer
– Pupilla
– Tommy
– Pupilla
05. Hocus Pocus
06. Sylvia
07. Hocus Pocus (Reprise)
HAMBURGER CONCERTO (1974)
01. Delitae Musicae
02. Harem Scarem
03. La Cathedrale de Strasbourg
04. Birth
05. Hamburger Concerto
– Starter
– Rare
– Medium I
– Medium II
– Well Done
– One for the Road
MOTHER FOCUS (1975)
01. Mother Focus
02. I Need a Bathroom
03. Bennie Helder
04. Soft Vanilla
05. Hard Vanilla
06. Tropic Bird
07. Focus IV
08. Someone’s Crying… What?
09. All Together… Oh, That!
10. No Hang Ups
11. My Sweetheart
12. Father Bach
SHIP OF MEMORIES (1976)
01. P’s March
02. Can’t Believe My Eyes
03. Focus V
04. Out of Vesuvius
05. Glider
06. Red Sky at Night
07. Spoke the Lord Creator
08. Crackers
09. Ship of Memories
FOCUS CON PROBY (1978)
01. Wingless
02. Orion
03. Night Flight
04. Eddy
05. Sneezing Bull
06. Brother
07. Tokyo Rose
08. Maximum
09. How Long
LIVE AT THE BBC (2004)
(Recorded on 21 March 1976, Radio 1 in the BBC Concert Series)
01. Virtuous Woman
02. Blues In D
03. Maximum
04. Sneezing Bull
05. Sonata For Flute
06. House Of The King
07. Angel Wings
08. Little Sister/What You See
09. Hocus Pocus