Rick Wakeman - No Earthly Connection [A&M Records SP-4583] (April 1976)

Dynamic Range Released: April 1976
Country: US
Label: A&M Records
Catalog: SP-4583
Genre: Prog Rock

Pressing: Monarch Record Mfg. Co.

Item# SR-AMSP4583
Ratings: C=VG; LP=VG


T R A C K L I S T:
01 Part 1 The Warning
02 Part 2 The Maker
03 Part 3 The Spaceman
04 Part 4 The Realisation
05 Part 5 The Reaper
06 The Prisoner
07 The Lost Cycle




No Earthly Connection
Rick Wakeman


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Album Review

Stephen Raiteri [allmusic.com]

After the massive scale of the Journey to the Center of the Earth and Myths and Legends of King Arthur... projects, Wakeman was told by his record company (and his finances, and his health), ''no more extravaganzas.'' So he produced this album with a stripped-down seven-piece band he called the English Rock Ensemble. It's notable that Wakeman, having broken with Yes over the obscurely metaphysical album Tales From Topographic Oceans, proceeded to make his own obscurely metaphysical album here. ''All the music,'' according to the liner notes, ''is based on a futuristic, autobiographical look at music, the part it plays in our pre-earth, human, and afterlife.'' The album deals with the fate of a man who has lost his ''music soul.'' Musically, it's not up to his previous standards, though ''The Prisoner'' is appropriately melodramatic.