Eloy — Dawn 1976 (Germany, Krautrock-Symphonic Progressive Rock)

Eloy — Dawn 1976 (Germany, Krautrock-Symphonic Progressive Rock)

The fifth album in the band's discography. Frank Bornemann assembled a completely new team… They recorded two sophisticated concept albums, "Dawn" (1976) and "Ocean" (1977). With these albums, Eloy became the best-selling German rock band (at the time). Well, with all the potential "Power and the Passion" demonstrated, the band disintegrated because they found their manager Jay Partridge quite unbearable (to the point where I don't seem to find any info that he dealt with any future band after ELOY fired him), not to mention some of the band members didn't quite go for the concept album. But since EMI noticed that the album was selling well enough (30,000 copies sold in Germany), they gave Frank Bornemann a second chance and allowed him to reassemble a new ELOY. New members included Detlev Schmidtchen on keyboards and additional guitar, Klaus-Peter Matziol on bass, and ex-SCORPIONS drummer Jürgen Rosenthal (who appeared on "Fly to the Rainbow", which was produced by Frank Bornemann, although uncredited).
The production on "Dawn" is such a vast improvement, it's hard to believe how bad the production of their previous album was and it was just released the year before. ELOY was going off the deep-end here by adding on strings to many of the cuts as well. The opening cut, "Awakening" starts off with the sound of thunder, an orchestra, before the guitar and vocals come in. "Between the Times" is a heavier piece, showing that Detlev Schmidtchen was probably playing guitar here, rather than keyboards. There is a lot of spoken dialog on this piece as well.01. Awakening — 0:00

02. Between The Times — 2:44

03. The Sun-Song — 4:35

04. The Dance In Doubt And Fear — 6:32

05. Lost!?? (Introduction) — 7:44

06. Memory — Flash — 8:52

07. Appearance Of The Voice — 13:48

08. Return Of The Voice — 18:15

09. Lost?? (The Decision) - 23:35

10. The Midnight-Fight / The Victory Of Mental Force - 28:40

11. Gliding Into Light And Knowledge - 36:47

12. Le Réveil Du Soleil / The Dawn - 41:05


Personnel:

Frank Bornemann – lead vocals, acoustic & electric guitars
Detlev Schmidtchen – Hammond organ, mini-moog, mellotron, piano, RMI keyboard computer, guitar, vocals
Klaus-Peter Matziol – bass, vocals
Jürgen Rosenthal - drums, cymbals, glockenspiel, gongs, timbales, roto-toms, kettle drums, temple block, voice

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