Description
If you have Abbey Road and Dark Side of the Moon on CD, it's time to add one more recording to your collection - The Time Machine. The common link between these great recordings is the work of Alan Parsons.
Tracks
1) The Time Machine
2) Temporalia
3) Out Of The Blue
4) Call Up
5) Ignorance Is Bliss
6) Rubber Universe
7) The Call Of The Wild
8) No Future in the Past
9) Press Rewind
10) The Very Last Time
11) Far Ago and Long Away
12) The Time Machine (part 2)
Artist Profile
Alan Parsons new release, The Time Machine (Miramar Recordings) is in many ways the promised next stage in the musical evolution that began with the album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Edgar Allen Poe. True to Parsons' style, The Time Machine is a thematic album: a triumph of vision about time, time travel, and space. Parsons describes his latest work as a "motif of time-related issues and ideas" influenced by the H.G. Wells' story, "The Time Machine."
When H.G. Wells died in 1946, The London Times caught the power of his impact in a single sentence -- "There was a time when Wells spoke more clearly than any other man to the youth of the world." As he did with Edgar Allen Poe's work, Alan Parsons now breaths new life and voice into his subject.
Although Alan showed early promise as a musician - learning piano, guitar and flute as a young child - Alan's musical career really began in the 1960s when he took a job at Abby Road Studios in London. It was here that he had the good fortune of serving as an assistant producer on some of the last works of The Beatles, including Let It Be and Abbey Road.
A long association followed between Alan, Abbey Road Studios and Paul McCartney. When the Beatles split up, Alan went on to engineer albums for Paul McCartney and Wings, which included the singles "Hi Hi Hi" and "C Moon" (Red Rose Speedway.) He also worked with The Hollies on many hits including "He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother" and "The Air That I Breathe." Parsons also served as the engineer mastermind behind Pink Floyd's, Dark Side of the Moon.
With his new-found success, Alan teamed up with friend Eric Woolfson, whom he had worked with at Abbey Road Studios. Woolfson began assisting Alan with his own musical career.
In 1974, the duo began adapting selected works of Edgar Allen Poe's poetry to music. Two years, and thousands of feet of tape later, the Alan Parsons Project was born. The highly acclaimed Tales Of Mystery and Imagination: Edgar Allen Poe, was the first in a series of award-winning albums for Alan Parsons followed by I Robot, Pyramid, Eve, The Turn Of A Friendly Card, Eye In The Sky, Ammonia Avenue, Vulture Culture, Stereotomy and Gaudi.
Over the past three decades, Parsons has seen many of his bands' songs hit the Billboard top 40, including "I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You" (1976, I Robot), "Damned If I Do" (1979, Eve), "Games People Play" and "Time" (1981, The Turn of a Friendly Card), "Eye In The Sky" (1982, Eye in the Sky) "Don't Answer Me" and "Prime Time" (1984, Ammonia Avenue).
Parsons has received 12 Grammy nominations for engineering and production, including a Grammy award nomination for his engineering work on Pink Floyd's legendary, Dark Side of the Moon.
Alan produced the soundtrack to the film Ladyhawke, directed by Richard Donner. More recently, Alan brought his production skills to the symphonic music of YES, including performances by Jon Anderson, Steve Howe and Bill Bruford. This album debuted at #1 on Billboard's classical and classical crossover charts, this accomplishment has yet to be surpassed.
With the 1999 release of Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me receiving rave reviews in America, the world now has a new slant on Alan Parsons. A big fan of Alan's work, Mike Myers chose to name his movie's cosmic death-ray after the Alan Parsons Project.
Credits
�1999 Parsonics Limited. Licensed by Miramar Recordings, Inc.
Performers
Musicians: Ian Bairnson, Stuart Elliott, John Giblin, Robyn Smith, Richard Cottle, Alan Parsons
Vocals: Colin Blunstone, Maire Brennan, Beverley Craven, Graham Dye, Tony Hadley, Neil Lockwood, Chris Rainbow
Production Credits
Produced & Engineered by: Alan Parsons
Musical Associates: Ian Bairnson & Stuart Elliott
Recorded at: Parsonics, England
Mastered by: Chris Blair at Abbey Road Studios, London