Focus – Moving Waves (Vinyl) Original Japanese Pressing
Polydor Records (1971 / This Pressing 1973)
$55.00
Scarce Early ’70s Japanese First Pressing In Immaculate Condition! Includes Insert. The Classic Focus LP Featuring “Hocus Pocus”.
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Scarce Early 70s Japanese First Pressing In Immaculate Condition! Includes Insert. The Classic Focus LP Featuring “Hocus Pocus”.
(Although ‘Moving Waves’ was originally released in 1971, it didn’t get issued in Japan until 1973).
Condition – Vinyl: NEAR MINT!
Condition – Cover: NEAR MINT!
Side 1:
Hocus Pocus
Le Clochard (“Bread”)
Janis
Moving Waves
Focus II
Side 2:
Eruption:
I. Orfeus, Answer, Orfeus
II. Answer, Pupilla, Tommy, Pupilla
III. Answer, The Bridge
IV. Euridice, Dayglow, Endless Road
V. Answer, Orfeus, Euridice
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Polydor Records (1971 / This Pressing 1973)
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Moving Waves blasts off with their hit single, "Hocus Pocus." Built around a killer guitar hook by Jan Akkerman and a series of solo turns by the band... The album that boosted Focus into at least semi-fame outside of continental Europe, Moving Waves blasts off with their hit single, "Hocus Pocus." Built around a killer guitar hook by Jan Akkerman and a series of solo turns by the band, this instrumental replaced "Wipeout" as a staple of FM radio. The bizarrely hilarious vocal and accordion solos by Thijs van Leer -- one of which absurdly concludes with rousing stadium cheers -- have to be heard to be believed. After this over-the-top performance, the other tracks seem comparatively constrained: the gentle "Le Clochard" features some gorgeous classical guitar over Mellotron strings. The album concludes with "Eruption," which while mimicking the multi-suite nomenclature of Yes and King Crimson, is essentially a side-long jam session. Stop-time Emersonian organ solos alternate with languid sections of jazzy guitar redolent of Santana, while still other sections are flat-out electric blues-rock stomps. It's impressive playing, though it comes off as a bit meandering after the tightly structured solos that began the album.