The Alan Parsons Project - Pyramid
Pyramid was the 3rd album by the art rock genius of Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson. This was another album that I grew up with and never stopped listening to and still marvel at it's cleverness and beauty to this day.
No question that the pyramid title and imaging was adopted from Parsons' work as engineer on Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon" (also 1973) but sonically these albums really don't have much in common.....although both great IMHO!.
The crazy thing is that Eric Woolfson who had one of the most beautiful voices in all of music history didnt lead sing on any track on this album and only did some backup. Instead Parsons called on Colin Blunstone (Zombies) , David Patton (Pilot), Lenny Zakatek, Dean Ford (Marmalade) , Ian Bairnson and John Miles (Parsons also produced his first solo album) to handle the lead vocals. The Orchestra on Pyramid was as usual arranged and produced by Andrew Powell who was a key member of the APP.
Pyramid has always been under the shield of envy of 1977's "I Robot" and really fits into the category of the classic THIRD album syndrome. Regardless of the critics many APP fans cite Pyramid as one of the best albums they ever released and remains for this fan a prozed album in my collection.
Pyramid has always been under the shield of envy of 1977's "I Robot" and really fits into the category of the classic THIRD album syndrome. Regardless of the critics many APP fans cite Pyramid as one of the best albums they ever released and remains for this fan a prozed album in my collection.
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