Download link from urldecrypt, direct link under maintenance. Interview is actually a concept album centering on a fictitious interview based upon the music business. Derek shulman interview by jason rubin the gentle giant. Due to high demand, an additional and final run of copies was added, identical to the first pressing and including the signed photograph.
There are the typical complex harmonies and intricate musical passages, but the real progress is in the groups expanded sound, thanks in large part to kerry minnear s stellar keyboard innovations. For the full audio click the podcast link below or download the podcast on. Its been a while since i did an album poll, so ill also take this opportunity to shamelessly plug my previous ones, just in case anybody missed them the first time around. Download gentle giant interview free shared files from downloadjoy and other worlds most popular shared hosts. Watch the video for interview from gentle giant s interview for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. If you are unfamiliar with gentle giant, we hope this web site will encourage you to. Cd album, reissue, remastered slipcasedvd dvdvideo, multichannel, ntsc, remastered country. An interview with derek shulman, conducted by jason rubin, spring 1991 about the interview.
Three of the tracks integrate brief interview sections which were staged in the studio. It is noted for its high production values, and for a less dissonant, more accessible feel than their previous album the power and the glory. Their vocal approach to the fourpart fugue on reflection was revolutionary for its time and is looked upon as one of the genres defining. Gentle giant singer, derek shulman, joins the podcast to talk about the bands. Often hailed as gentle giants last good album, or hated for being their first bad album interview sure does sit uneasily in the gentle giant catalogue. Interview rankings notwithstanding, i heartily recommend anything from gentle giant to free hand. Listen free to gentle giant interview interview, empty city and more. Free hand is perhaps gentle giants most realized effort.
Gentle giant also included unusual found recordings, like the early video arcade machine heard at the start of time to kill, from the second side of 1975s free hand. You can buy album interview remastered 2005 35th anniversary edition drt 1976 gentle giant. The music pointedly poked fun at the state of the music industry and at the silly questions that rock stars are repeatedly asked in order to construct an image for marketing. When i discovered them, they were on their way down and i was just beginning to get into the genre. Gentle giant free hand interview by gentle giant 2002 0309 music skip to main content. The band was known for the complexity and sophistication of its music and fo. Often hailed as gentle giant s last good album, or hated for being their first bad album interview sure does sit uneasily in the gentle giant catalogue. Gentle giant s next release was 1976s interview another concept album, this time based around an imaginary interview with the band.
Free hand is perhaps gentle giant s most realized effort. Mp3 is a digital audio format without digital rights management drm technology. Top gentle giant albums progressive rock music forum page 1. Gentle giant free hand interview by gentle giant 2002. The title song has lyrics derived from the type of question and answer dialogue they had encountered while. Gentle giant free hand interview by gentle giant 2002 0309 music. Our filtering technology ensures that only latest gentle giant interview files are listed. More albums by gentle giant acquiring the taste free hand gentle giant in a glass house. I interviewed at gentle giant moving company lowell, ma in april 2018. Gentle giants popularity rose again in the 1990s and beyond, as these later releases and some new compilations.
Because our mp3s have no drm, you can play it on any device that supports mp3, even on your ipod. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at. Free handinterview is a music boxsetcompilation recording by gentle giant. Yes its been hard, going a long time and were together even now. A new book, rock teil 4, includes a chapter on gg and a free. Freehand is one of their essential albums, but interview is excellent as well. Formed at the dawn of the progressive rock era in 1969, gentle giant seemed poised for a time in the mid70s to break out of its cultband status, but somehow never made the jump. Gentle giant were an english progressive rock band active between 1970 and 1980. Free hand is the only one of gentle giants chrysalisperiod studio albums which has previously been available on cd, and then only in the states. Here you can find gentle giant interview shared files. This third installment presents a concert from the american leg of the 1976 interview tour. Gentle giant free hand and interview vintage quad mixes. Gentle giant free hand interview by gentle giant 200203.
Download gentle giant interview in surround format on. Free hand is the seventh album by british progressive rock band gentle giant. Now, along with the other four interview, the missing piece, giant for a day and civilian it is being given a longoverdue british cd release. It is a concept album conceived as a radio interview. Released after the popular free hand album in 1976 the concept album based around band interviews is wonderfully produced and the level of skill and musicianship contained within is nothing. Gentle giants alucard records catalogs in the artist shop. The missing piece is the ninth album by british progressive rock band gentle giant which was released in 1977. It was the gentle giants first album with their new label chrysalis records in the uk.
Gentle giant free handinterview cddvd, vinyl gentle giants two albums from 1975 and 1976 represent a pinnacle of this unique bands achievements. Free hand 1975, interview 1976, playing the fool 1977. Now you can add one to your collection too, with a special bust coming up from gentle giant. Free hand is a music studio album recording by gentle giant eclectic progprogressive rock released in 1975 on cd, lp vinyl andor cassette. Free hand is the only one of gentle giant s chrysalisperiod studio albums which has previously been available on cd, and then only in the states.
Top gentle giant albums progressive rock music forum. Therefore, the set list is very similar to the one found on the official live album playing the fool, recorded a few months later in europe. Interview is a music studio album recording by gentle giant eclectic. Free handinterview is a music boxsetcompilation recording by gentle giant eclectic progprogressive rock released in 1998 on cd, lp vinyl andor cassette. The ahsokas 332 nd clone trooper minibust is based on the armor of the new seasons 332 nd battalion, who have sworn allegiance to ahsoka tano. Gentle giant released 11 studio albums and one live album during their career from 1970 to 1980.
Gentle giant gentle giant 2019 dvdaudio gentle giant the power and the glory 2014 dts 5. Please vote for your 3 favourite gentle giant albums. Interview is a music studio album recording by gentle giant eclectic progprogressive rock released in 1976 on cd, lp vinyl andor cassette. Gentle giant biography formed in 1970 in london, uk disbanded in 1980 gentle giant is known as the paradigmatic progressive rock band.
Gentle giant was, is, and always will be my favorite progressive group. You can buy album interview remastered 2005 35th anniversary edition drt 1976. Interview in concert is part of a series of gentle giant official bootleg releases undertaken by the label glass house. Album three friends 2011 remaster writers derek shulman, ray shulman, phil shulman, kerry minnear. Each disc is housed in its own gatefold digisleeve, except the bluray which is in a digipak. Gentle giant interview remastered 2005 35th anniversary. Acclaimed british progressive rock band noted for its heavy classical influence and unique use of vocal counterpoint.
As those of you familiar with gentle giant know, their music is a melding of jazz, rock, celtic, classical, and a variety of other influences into an indescribable and unique whole. After the fourth one, realisation, finding our road, the same as if today. After the excellent in a glass house, the group further developed its renaissancemedieval approach, producing one of the most creative and complex recordings in progressive rock history. With an uncomparable musicianship, they went as far as no one ever did into unexplored grounds in the progressive music, navigating over dissonant 20thcentury classical chamber music, medieval vocal music, jazz and rock.
Derek shulman gentle giant interview the prog report podbean. Gentle giant reveals ahsokas clone trooper bust brutal. Gentle giant released free hand, their most commercial album, in 1976, but then followed it up with the jarringly experimental interview. After the interview tour this return to the studio marked a change of direction for the band with the first side of the album exploring different musical directions than the band was previously known for, including pop music and punk rock, while the second side was more in. After the 1978 doublealbum playing the fool, the group went through a seeming change of heart and issued a series of albums aimed at mainstream audiences, even approaching disco, but by the end of the 1970s. Gentle giant unburied treasure 2019, box set discogs. Here you can buy and download music mp3 gentle giant. It was their highestcharting album in the us and the. Dec 30, 2015 formed at the dawn of the progressive rock era in 1969, gentle giant seemed poised for a time in the mid70s to break out of its cultband status, but somehow never made the jump. If you have any interest in progressive rock, you must own this cd. It was the gentle giant s first album with their new label chrysalis records in the uk. Derek shulman gentle giant interview unburied treasure the. Nov 03, 2009 often hailed as gentle giant s last good album, or hated for being their first bad album interview sure does sit uneasily in the gentle giant catalogue.
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