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| • | Emerson, Lake & Palmer was the debut album of British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in 1970 (see 1970 in music).
As a first album from the newly-formed supergroup the influences they brought with them are clear in the mix of instrumental and vocal pieces. The front cover of the album depicts a fluttering white bird with a human ear in the bottom left corner.
The album is not a unified band effort as a whole; only the first track features credits for all three band members. The remainder are essentially solo pieces. "Take a Pebble" and "Lucky Man" are ballads by Greg Lake, precedents to those he would produce on subsequent albums (notably, "C'est La Vie" from Works Volume I and "Still...You Turn Me On" from Brain Salad Surgery). Palmer's solo spot, "Tank", is intended to showcase his virtuoso drumming style, although it does feature accompaniment by Emerson on synthesisers.
Going beyond the incorporation of classical music influences, including using complex time signatures and harmonies and symphonic-type structures which helped to give them their unique sound, the band use lengthy note-for-note extracts from composers including Bach, Janacek and Bartok.
Although the composition of the first track, Barbarian, is attributed to the three band members, it is effectively an arrangement for rock band of Bartokࢀ&#-2509; 1911 piano piece, Allegro Barbaro. The third track Knife Edge is based on the first movement of Janacekࢀ&#-2509; Sinfonietta (1926) with an instrumental middle section that includes an extended quotation from the Allemande of Bachs 1st French Suite in D minor, BWV 812, but played on an organ rather than clavichord or piano. None of these quotations were attributed on the original album release.
Source: [wikipedia: emerson, lake and palmer (album)]
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