ALAN PARSONS: EYE IN THE SKY

Executor: The Alan Parson Project
Author: Alan Parsons
Number of discs: 1
Label:
Speakers corner
Support: LPs
Genre: Pop/Rock
Year: 2007

Recorded from the original analog master

Remaining completely indifferent to the glorification typical of today's show business, the Alan Parsons Project has managed to demonstrate that even without the limelight, rock superstars in the band and songs composed for the occasion, it is possible to achieve results of the highest level. After gaining solid experience as a sound engineer at EMI, for which he had personally edited several albums by Paul McCartney and Pink Floyd's extraordinary Dark Side of the Moon in the legendary Abbey Road studios, Alan Parsons decided to move first steps solo. While his co-producer wrote the songs, Parsons who has always had an infallible instinct for sound took care of creating a very original mix of synthetic and natural sounds. Like all the first albums of the Alan Parsons Project, Eye in the Sky also refers to the hottest themes of those years. Refractory to ask questions about the future, the songs on this disc are pervaded by a rather surly spirit, which creates a strident contrast with the decisive rock rhythms, completely free from any electronic devilry. Added to this are surprising harmonic passages in vocal polyphony ("Gemini"), brass going crazy on Spanish rhythms ("Silence and I") and a soft carpet of strings ("Old and Wise"), all enhanced by the prodigies achieved by the console from that extraordinary sound wizard that is Alan Parsons.

The Alan Parsons Project
Sirius
Eye In The Sky
Children Of The Moon
Gemini
Silence And I
You???re Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned
Psychobabble
Mammagamma
Step By Step
Old And Wise