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Focus Prog Rock 2001
Focus - Moving Waves flac album
  • Performer Focus
  • Title Moving Waves
  • Date of release 2001
  • Style Prog Rock
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  • Genre Rock
  • Size MP3 1513 mb
  • Size FLAC 1908 mb
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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.

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Album · 1970 · 6 Songs.

Moving Waves is the 1971 second album by the Dutch band Focus. It includes the hit "Hocus Pocus" which features yodelling and operatic falsetto from Thijs van Leer combined with Jan Akkerman's heavy metal guitar.

Moving Waves owes its unique character to the friction between Akkerman and van Leer as the band’s primary songwriters, something that continued to play out in increasingly dramatic fashion on the band’s 1972 double LP, Focus III

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Eruption Part 1
A1a Orfeus, Answer, Orfeus
Written-By – Thijs Van Leer
A1b Answer, Pupilla, Tommy
Written-By – Thijs Van Leer
A1c Pupilla
B1 The Bridge (Pt 2), Euridice, Dayglow
Written-By – Thijs Van Leer
B2 Endless Road, Answer
Written-By – E. Nobel*, Thijs Van Leer
C1 Orfeus, Euridice
Written-By – Thijs Van Leer
C2 Janis
Written-By – Jan Akkerman, Thijs Van Leer
 3:00
C3 Hocus Pocus Part 1
Written-By – Jan Akkerman, Thijs Van Leer
D1 Hocus Pocus Part 2
Written-By – Jan Akkerman, Thijs Van Leer
D2 Le Clochard
Written-By – Jan Akkerman
D3 Moving Waves
Music By – Thijs Van LeerWords By – Inayat Khan*
 2:30
D4 Focus II
Written-By – Thijs Van Leer
 4:00

Credits

  • Bass, Vocals – Cyriel Havermans*
  • Design, Photography By – Terence Ibbott
  • Drums – Pierre Van Der Linden
  • Engineer – Jerry Boys
  • Guitar [Solo], Acoustic Guitar, Bass – Jan Akkerman
  • Organ, Harmonium, Mellotron, Flute [Soprano, Alto], Piano, Vocals – Thijs Van Leer
  • Producer – Mike Vernon

Notes

Made in England
Marketed by Polydor

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
5C 054-24385 Focus Focus II ‎(LP, Album) Imperial 5C 054-24385 Netherlands 1971
1C 072-24 385 Focus Focus II ‎(LP, Album, RE) EMI 1C 072-24 385 Germany 1977
5C 038-24385, 5N 038-24385 Focus Focus II ‎(LP, Album, RE, RP) Bovema Negram, Bovema Negram 5C 038-24385, 5N 038-24385 Netherlands Unknown
RB 66.188 Focus Moving Waves ‎(CD, Album, RE) Red Bullet RB 66.188 Netherlands 2001
X2-13060 Focus Moving Waves ‎(CD, Album, Unofficial) I.R.S. Records X2-13060 Russia Unknown
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