Originally Posted by tore

Focus - Moving Waves (1971)



This is the second album by Focus. It spawned a peculiar hit song, Hocus Pocus, which featured yodeling and crazy facial expressions from singer/keyboardist/flutist Thijs Van Leer. This release lifted them them to the height of their popularity in the early 70s and Jan Akkerman was voted the world's greatest guitarist in 1973 by readers of the UK magazine Melody Maker.

The album is known for being somewhat experimental but having achieved popularity nevertheless and contains among other things the 23 minutes long epic "Eruption" which is an adaptation of Jacopo Peri's opera Euridice, which tells the tale of Orpheus and Euridice.

So let's listen to some Focus!