Sky - Sky 4 Forthcoming

Sky was a British-Australian classical-rock fusion band formed in London in 1978 by classical guitarist John Williams, fellow Australian guitarist Kevin Peek, keyboarder Francis Monkman of Curved Air fame, famed session bass player Herbie Flowers and drummer Tristan Fry. Their unique style combined with the virtuosity of the individual members and easy accessibility of the compositions quickly gained them a huge and steady fan base. As a result of the success of the first album, the group went on to release their even more successful double record second album. Those first two albums remain in print. Francis Monkman left after the second album and was replaced by Steve Gray.

This fourth album features no original compositions and was originally intended to be an album of purely Western classical works. However, one of the pieces is a modern Greek composition while another is a Brazilian folk tune, and the last track is a cover of a Hoagy Carmichael tune, which might be a classic but is hardly classical!

The classical works are fairly straightforward renditions as arranged for a five piece band, except for Ride Of The Valkyries, which according to Herbie Flowers was intended as a "musical joke", and meant to sound like a small band struggling to play the tune - maybe they got that right after all.

Files:
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Password: None

File Format: APE

Artwork: Front cover and back insert

Special Notes: None. The album is ready to burn after downloading.

Credit Where Credit Is Due: Like other links on this site, these links were found through extensive internet searches, sometimes on some fairly dodgy sites. Occasionally the links are found on forums that allow the posting of currently in-print albums, which I do not condone.