No Earthly Connection

by Rick Wakeman

No Earthly Connection cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: April 1976
  • Label: A&M
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 42:41
  • Community rating: 3.34/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Scaling back slightly from his massive orchestrations, the iconic keyboardist presents a concept album focused deeply on music's supposed spiritual and cosmic origins. Built entirely around the sprawling, multi-part 'Music Reincarnate' suite, the record occasionally flirts with subtle jazz-funk rhythms courtesy of his backing band. It remains a dense, cryptic, and heavily synthesized staple of his highly theatrical 1970s solo career.

Genres

Descriptors: suite, progressive

Tracklist

  1. Part I: The Warning (8:17)
  2. Part II: The Maker (3:40)
  3. Part III: The Spaceman (4:07)
  4. Part IV: The Realisation (4:19)
  5. Part V: The Reaper (8:02)
  6. The Prisoner (7:08)
  7. The Lost Cycle (7:05)

Credits

  • The English Rock Ensemble - primary artist
  • Chris Moore - illustration [cover illustrations]
  • Reg Brooks - bass trombone, trombone, background vocals vocal
  • John Dunsterville - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, background vocals vocal
  • Tony Fernandez - percussion, drums (drum set)
  • Roger Newell - bass guitar, bass pedals, background vocals vocal
  • Martyn Shields - flugelhorn, French horn, trumpet, background vocals vocal
  • Ashley Holt - lead vocals vocal

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