Focus II

by Focus

Focus II cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: October 1971
  • Label: Imperial
  • Country: Netherlands
  • Length: 18:00
  • Community rating: 3.94/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Cyril Havermans, Thijs van Leer, Eelco Nobel, Tom Barlage, Pierre Van Der Linden, Jan Akkerman

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Also widely known internationally as 'Moving Waves', this phenomenal Dutch progressive rock classic catapulted the band to global fame with the yodeling, hard-rocking smash 'Hocus Pocus'. The album is wonderfully warm and intensely melodic, pairing fiercely complex, dense symphonic prog suites with beautifully mellow, pastoral acoustic instrumentation.

Genres

Descriptors: complex, progressive, instrumental, melodic, virtuosic

Tracklist

  1. Hocus Pocus (6:35)
  2. Le Clochard (Bread) (1:55)
  3. Janis (3:00)
  4. Moving Waves (2:30)
  5. Focus II (4:00)

Credits

  • Focus - primary artist
  • Dennis Kloeth - artwork
  • Cyril Havermans - bass, voice [voices]
  • Pierre Van Der Linden - drums, written-by
  • Jerry Boys - engineer [sound]
  • Thijs van Leer - organ, harmonium, mellotron [melotron], soprano flute, alto flute, piano, voice [voices], written-by, written-by [middlepart], concept by [basical idea]
  • Janos Barendsen - photography by [coverphoto]
  • Mike Vernon - producer
  • Jan Akkerman - soloist, guitar, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, written-by
  • Eelco Nobel - written-by
  • Tom Barlage - written-by
  • Hazrat Inayat Khan - lyrics by

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