EMERSON LAKE & PALMER

The style is principality semi-officially with the works of The Nice, Procol Harum or Moody established Blues and definitively at the end of the 60 and beginnings of the 70 by bands like King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Yes or ELP, that made debut with this disc, one of most popular of the terceto. In "The Barbarian", they mix of dynamic way shining and hard rock with the "Barbaro Allegro" of the Hungarian composer Bela Bartok. Initiated the piece with one fuzz to guitar the development is a main vehicle for the abilities in the organ and the piano of Keith Emerson, also emphasizing the sinewy work in the battery of Palmer. "Take to Pebble" is an extensive and melodic composition of Greg Lake, that demonstrates that it has an excellent voice. Ductile song of varied tempos, rich in atmósferica creation, contains calmed passages of acoustic guitar, with even some wink to country-folk, and anxious pianos of tendencies jazz. "Knife Edge" is a subject hard progressive rock with some tempo which they could fit in the disc debut of Black Sabbath (published the same year) and influences classic of the "Sinfonietta" of Leos Janacek. "Three Fates", piece divided in three parts, "Clothos", "Lachesis" and "Athropos", it seems to fuse the rock, with Miklos Rosza and Johann Sebastian Bach, with Emerson demonstrating that an expert in the keyboards is everything and that if he goes of expert he can arrive to become instrumental onanista and to end up boring like in this occasion. "Tank", an also somewhat indulgente subject, is outstanding by the use of the sintetizadores (all a newness at the moment with the use given by Emerson in the compositions of the group) and the single one of battery of Carl Palmer, great an instrumentalist one infravalued enough who demonstrates that he could compete with anyone in the cleaning rods. The most commercial song of the album, very indebted of the time at which it was recorded, is the one that closes the same one, "Lucky Man". ELP forget complexities and compose a most beautiful acoustic ballad of medieval nature that exhibits the remarkable melódica capacity of Lake, precious vocal harmonies and a single one of Moog on the part of Emerson that caused enough impact at its moment. A sometimes shining disc, other pomposo and autocomplaciente, but significant of the style and the time at which it was recorded. That yes, the people who only feed themselves on hardcore, punk, metal, hip hop or teen pop, better than she does not approach nor of distant spot his sound. To go to the biography of Emerson, Lake & Palmer