Renaissance - 50th Anniversary - Ashes are Burning - An Anthology - Live in Concert (2021) Blu-ray
Genre: Art-Rock,Symphonic Progressive Rock | Label: Esoteric Recordings | Year: 2021 | Quality: Blu-ray 1080i | Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 29565 kbps / 1080i / 29.970 fps / 16:9 | Audio: LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit; DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 48 kHz / 4045 kbps / 24-bit | Time: 1:50:58 | Size: 29.43 GB
To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the formation of RENAISSANCE, vocalist ANNIE HASLAM and band performed a series of concerts with an orchestra in the USA in October 2019 featuring a set list which included songs which had never been orchestrated or performed with an orchestra before. The most memorable concert took place at the Keswick Theater in Glenside, PA on 12th October 2019.
The jazz fusion of tomorrow is here today via Michael Whalen’s innovative
Future Shock, also the title of Alvin Toffler’s 1970 best-seller about psychologically drowning in a swift-moving current of rapid technological change. Humanity has nothing to fear from Whalen’s forward-looking instrumentals, where refreshing washes of electronica and streaming melodic puzzles of progressive dynamics erase unsettling dystopian visions and ease feelings of being unmoored and isolated in a cold, godless computer age.
Gradually evolving soundscapes unfold throughout
Future Shock, entirely composed, arranged, produced, and mixed by the Emmy Award-winning Whalen, renowned for his television soundtrack work and keyboard, synthesizer and programming wizardry. It is no wonder then that
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