Moving Waves
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| Studio album by Focus | ||
| Released | October 1971 | |
| Recorded | 1971 | |
| Genre | Progressive rock | |
| Length | 41:40 | |
| Label | EMI | |
| Producer(s) | Mike Vernon | |
| Focus chronology | ||
|---|---|---|
| In and Out of Focus (1971) |
Moving Waves (1971) |
Focus III (1972) |
Moving Waves is the second album by Focus released in October 1971 and contained the hit "Hocus Pocus" which contained manic yodelling from Thijs van Leer combined with Jan Akkerman's heavy metal guitar sound, harmonicas, panflutes and much more. Even though the sound was highly experimental, it became very successful peaking at #9 in the Dutch Top 40 and later becoming popular in the United States with a #9 position on the Billboard Hot 100 and a #20 position in the UK Singles Chart.
One song dominates the album and that is "Eruption" which is a 23 minute long instrumental piece which is a hardrock version of the tale of Orpheus and Euridice and is an updated and more modern version of the Jacopo Peri's opera Euridice.
Moving Waves was one of the albums in the Isis/Eagle Rock Entertainment television documentary Classic Albums.
[edit] Track listing
| # | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Hocus Pocus" | Thijs van Leer, Jan Akkerman | 6:42 |
| 2. | "Le Clochard" | Jan Akkerman | 2:01 |
| 3. | "Janis" | Jan Akkerman | 3:09 |
| 4. | "Moving Waves" | Thijs van Leer, Inayat Khan | 2:42 |
| 5. | "Focus II" | Thijs van Leer | 2:56 |
| 6. | "Eruption" | Thijs van Leer, Tom Barlage, Jan Akkerman, Pierre van der Linden, Eelke Nobel | 23:04 |
| a. Orfeus | 1:22 | ||
| b. Answer | 1:35 | ||
| c. Orfeus | 1:20 | ||
| d. Answer | 0:52 | ||
| e. Pupilla | 1:03 | ||
| f. Tommy | 1:45 | ||
| g. Pupilla | 0:34 | ||
| h. Answer | 0:21 | ||
| i. The Bridge | 5:20 | ||
| j. Break | 0:24 | ||
| k. Euridice | 1:40 | ||
| l. Dayglow | 2:00 | ||
| m. Endless Road | 1:36 | ||
| n. Answer | 0:34 | ||
| o. Orfeus | 0:52 | ||
| p. Euridice | 1:37 |
