Focus 8

Focus 8
Studio album by Focus
Released 2002 (2002)
Recorded 2001/2002
Genre Progressive Rock
Length 63:28
Label Musea Records
Producer Focus
Focus chronology
The Best of Focus: Hocus Pocus
(1994)		 Focus 8
(2002)		 Live in America
(2003)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
DPRP [2]

Focus 8 is a 2002 studio album by the band Focus. The album marks a return of the progressive rock style that dominated the band's work with Jan Akkerman. The poppier, often disco influenced style the band started to play on the Mother Focus album is still there.

Track listing

  1. "Rock & Rio" (Thijs van Leer) – 3:27
  2. "Tamara's move" (Jan Dumée) – 5:17
  3. "Fretless love" (van Leer) – 6:08
  4. "Hurkey Turkey" (T. van der Kaaij, van Leer) – 4:15
  5. "De ti o de mi" (Bobby Jacobs) – 6:30
  6. "Focus 8" (van Leer) – 6:19
  7. "Sto ces raditi zwota" (Dumée) – 5:26
  8. "Neurotika" (van Leer) – 3:47
  9. "Brother" (Peters, van Leer) – 5:39
  10. "Blizu tebe" (Dumée) – 6:38
  11. "Flower Shower" (Dumée, Jacobs, Bert Smaak, van Leer) – 5:41

Personnel

References

  1. ^ "allmusic ((( Focus 8 > Overview )))". www.allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r619264. Retrieved 2009-11-17. 
  2. ^ "DPRP CD Reviews - 2003 - Volume 2". www.dprp.net. http://www.dprp.net/reviews/200302.html. Retrieved 2009-11-17. 
Focus
Thijs van Leer · Niels van der Steenhoven · Bobby Jacobs · Pierre van der Linden
Jan Akkerman · Jan Dumée · Martin Dresden · Cyril Havermans · Bert Ruiter · Hans Cleuver · Colin Allen · Bert Smaak · Philip Catherine · David Kemper · Eef Albers
Studio albums
Live albums
At the Rainbow · Live in America · Live at the BBC 1976
Compilation albums
The Best of Focus: Hocus Pocus
Singles
"Hocus Pocus" · "Sylvia" · "House of the King" · "Tommy" · "Harem Scarem" · "Mother Focus" · "P's March" · "Russian Roulette"
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