Hamburger Concerto

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Focus Achieves Best Work Here

After breaking big with the novelty song "Hocus Pocus" and several albums highlighting the musical dexerity of Van Leer and Akkerman, Focus settled down some for this album. HC is a collection of songs that range from Rockist agression in "Birth" to soaring beauty "La Cathedral de Strausberg." This gives the entire album a unity that the major piece "Hamberger Concerto" exploits to great effect.

I get the impression that this album was thought out more so than most Prog works of the same period;…

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Written by Mark D Burgh "Music, Writing, Art, Film, History Freak"

Another good Focus album

This is Focus's fifth album. It is their last purely progressive, art-rock album. It is not a live album. It is right at 40 minutes long.

This album rates three and a half to four stars. It is very enjoyable in most parts. It music is heavier and rocks a little more. It is more in the lines of Moving Waves, then Focus III (which is a bit more mellow).

There are some weak moments. In the opening track, it is as if they are trying to find a new novelty way of singing, since yodelling was such a …

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Written by kireviewer

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