Sparkles with increased vibrancy, bouncing around the room with tantalizing surprises emerging from all corners... We were bound to get here eventually. With Esoteric's ongoing Renaissance reissue campaign having thus far covered the majority of their classic 1970s period, and even expanding such classic titles as Turn Of The Cards, Live At Carnegie Hall, Novella,..
RENAISSANCE – 50th Anniversary: Ashes Are Burning (An Anthology Live In Concert) (Esoteric / Cherry Red)
How many of us, buying the Carnegie Hall album back in 1976, would have imagined that 45 years hence we would all be around to celebrate the 50th? Speaking for this 1970s teenager, I would never have thought it for a moment. But I am overjoyed to be proved wrong. This 50th anniversary celebration of..
Annie In Wonderland: Renaissance frontwoman talks 50 years of history
A Song For All Seasons is amazing! I get so welled up inside... The 2021 release date of Renaissance's new four disc collection (and mouthful of a title) 50th Anniversary – Ashes Are Burning: An Anthology – Live In Concert actually finds the band fifty-two years in to their remarkable history. But for the sticklers..
ANNIE HASLAM – ANNIE IN WONDERLAND (Esoteric)
... the old classic Nature Boy, a song whose other-worldly, slightly surreal melody has always made it sound like a song simply waiting for Annie's voice to join it ... In 1977, while Renaissance were taking a short hiatus in order for John Tout to recover from illness, Annie Haslam decide to take advantage of..