The Story of I

by Patrick Moraz

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: March 1976
  • Label: Charisma
  • Country: Switzerland
  • Length: 46:15
  • Community rating: 3.5/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded while he was still an active member of Yes, the Swiss keyboard virtuoso delivered an incredibly dense, highly eclectic conceptual solo debut. The ambitious project incorporates an entire ensemble of Brazilian percussionists alongside blistering synthesizer solos and sprawling jazz-fusion elements. It serves as a staggeringly technical, wildly colorful intersection of European symphonic rock and global rhythms.

Genres

Descriptors: complex, conceptual, rhythmic, instrumental

Tracklist

  1. Impact (3:31)
  2. Warmer Hands (3:31)
  3. The Storm (0:52)
  4. Cachaca (Baiao) (4:07)
  5. Intermezzo (2:49)
  6. Indoors (3:44)
  7. Best Years Of Our Lives (3:59)
  8. Descent (1:43)
  9. Incantation (Procession) (1:51)
  10. Dancing Now (4:38)
  11. Impressions (The Dream) (2:49)
  12. Like A Child In Disguise (4:05)
  13. Rise And Fall (5:34)
  14. Symphony In The Space (2:56)

Credits

  • Auguste De Anthony - acoustic guitar, electric guitar [additional]
  • The Children Of Morat, Switzerland - chorus
  • Alphonse Mouzon - drums, membranophone
  • Andy Newmark - drums, membranophone
  • Paulinho Braga - drums [bateria], membranophone
  • Jeff Berlin - electric bass, bass electric bass guitar
  • Ray Gomez - electric guitar, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, electric guitar guitar
  • Jean-Luc Bourgeois - gong, tom tom

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