Che i gusti del pubblico fossero cambiati non deve essere importato un granchè ai Renaissance che nel 1977, incuranti della rivoluzione musicale in atto,pubblicano a formazione invariata il loro settimo lavoro in studio,dopo la fortunata stagione di concerti culminata con la pubblicazione del doppio Live at Carnegie Hall.
Novella è infatti un'altra favola che sembra venire dal passato quasi una riedizione del loro album d'esordio,
cinque brani aperti da una lunghissima suite ( Can You Hear Me? ) con il pianoforte sempre in evidenza e arrangiamenti ricercati a sublimare il canto della Haslam;
è progressive puro,per quanto lo stile di questo gruppo sfugga per definizione ad ogni genere di etichetta.
Midas Man che apre la seconda facciata è certamente uno dei pezzi piu riusciti del disco e dell'intera produzione dei Renaissance,due brani intimisti per la voce di Annie ( The Sisters e The captive Heart ) e un altro ensemble di circa 10 minuti ( Touching One Is So Hard To Keep ) completano l'album.
Un opera con qualche sbavatura ma decisamente coraggiosa con cui il gruppo abbraccia ancora una volta con incontaminata purezza il proprio non vastissimo pubblico ma che,come prevedibile,non verrà premiata in termini di vendite. Il successivo A Song For All Seasons li vedrà infatti costretti a compiere un piccolo passo verso sonorità leggermente piu accessibili,con il brano Back Home Once Again che diventerà la sigla della miniserie televisiva The Paper Lads.
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Tracce
Can You Hear Me ?
The Sisters
Midas Man
The Captive Heart
Touching One (Is so hard to keep)
Formazione
Annie Haslam – voce
Michael Dunford – chitarra acustica, chitarra a 12 corde
John Tout – piano, tastiera, sintetizzatore, clavinet
Jon Camp – basso, voce, effetti, violoncello
Terence Sullivan – batteria e percussioni
Elenco tracce testi e video
01 Can You Hear Me? (13:39)
Morning people take the news
A paper window on a world
They live on undisturbed
Thoughts may fly like the lonely birds
And lost behind the silent words
Voices are unheard
Put it down to city life
Oh if I understood
Passing by so easily
I'd reach you if I could
Can you hear me
Can you hear me
Fly like a song, fly while you're singing
A song without you, is a bird without winging
Some city flights leave in the morning
Some city nights end without warning
Can you hear me call
Evening people see the day
A silhouette on every face
A shadow on their eyes
I take my place within the crowd
We walk the dusty streets around
Encompassing our lives
Put it down to city times
Oh if I understood
Passing by so casually
I'd reach you if I could
Can you hear me
Can you hear me
Fly like a song, fly while you're singing
A song without you, is a bird without winging
Some city flights leave in the morning
Some city nights end without warning
Can you hear me call
Can you hear me call
Can you hear me call
[Instrumental]
Calling to the sky
The thunder drowns my voice within the rain
And I know you're near me
And I call throughout the storm
I know that you don't hear me
I call your name
I call your name
I call your name
Can you hear me call your name
Can you hear me call
Hear me call your name
I call your name
I call your name
Can you hear me call your name
[Instrumental]
Night time people find it hard
To hear themselves above the noise
The music holds its own
I recognised a place I'd known
I turned to find it carved in
03 Midas Man (05:46)
Gold - said the man to the many
I want money and I'll make it grow
I will count my worth in gold - wealth untold
I'll sell my soul - Midas Man
Sold - said the man to the many
Work for me, I'll only steal your time
I will count my money out, there's no doubt
I'll sell my soul - Midas Man - Midas Man
I'll take from the blind and I'll get up ahead
I'll sneak up behind and I'll steal
I'll take all that you have
And then all that you've concealed
I'll take anything I can get - I'll make you
I'll break you and I'll make you sweat
Nothing is worth nothing unless it's
Made for Midas Man
Gold - said the man to the many
Pots of gold are all I want from you
Quarter time for treble days the only way
To sell your soul - Midas Man - Midas Man
I'll take from the blind and I'll get up ahead
I'll sneak up behind and I'll steal
I'll take all that you have
And then all that you've concealed
I'll take anything I can get - I'll make you
I'll break you and I'll make you sweat
Nothing is worth nothing unless it's
Made for Midas Man
Midas - Midas - Midas Man
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