Rick Wakeman "Progressive rock" "classical ambient" "new-age" Christian

Electronic music with Rick Wakeman is represented in musical genres Progressive rock classic ambient new-age Christian.Wakeman's discography includes over 90 solo albums. Wakeman pursued solo projects in the 1980s that varied in levels of success; his most successful album was 1984, released in 1981, which was followed by his minor pop hit single, "Glory Boys", from Silent Nights (1985). He hosted the television show Gastank, and recorded his first of several New-age, ambient, and Christian music albums with Country Airs (1986) and The Gospels (1987), respectively. From 1988 to 1990, he was a member of Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe which led to his third Yes stint until 1992. He returned twice more between 1995 and 2004, during which he completed several more solo projects and tours, including his most significant of the decade, Return to the Centre of the Earth (1999). Wakeman continues to record albums and perform concerts worldwide in various capacities; his most recent album is Piano Portraits (2017). Although Wakeman is a noted player of the grand piano, electric piano, pipe organ, Hammond organ, Minimoog and many later models of synthesiser, he is well known as a proponent (for a time) of the Mellotron – an analogue electronic musical instrument that uses a bank of pre-recorded magnetic tape strips, each of which is activated by a separate key on its keyboard and lasts approximately 8 seconds. Wakeman featured playing this instrument, to varying degrees, on the David Bowie track Space Oddity, the Yes albums Fragile, Close to the Edge and Tales From Topographic Oceans, as well as the solo albums The Six Wives of Henry VIII and White Rock. An urban legend claims that Wakeman got so frustrated with one Mellotron that he poured petrol on it and set fire to it, but this was debunked in a 2010 interview. He subsequently worked with David Biro to develop the Birotron, which used the then popular 8-track cassette format rather than tape strips. Because of the advent of digital keyboards at that time, and expensive components used in the instruments' manufacture, the Birotron was never a commercial or technical success. Only 35 Birotrons were produced.[137] These days, he can be found with more modern instruments such as the Korg Kronos, Yamaha Montage, and the Memotron, a new digital version of the original Mellotron.
White Rock 03:22 3 - March of the Gladiators 04:55 3
3 Unit 04:31 4 - Sir Galahad 05:51 6
Rhapsody in Blue 05:23 1 - Crime of Passion 05:52 3
Waves 03:29 2 - The Sailor's Lament 04:35 1
The Dream 05:04 1 - The Pirate 04:39 1
The Peregrine Falcon 02:40 2
The Misty Mountains 06:25 2
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus 11:16 2
The Last Battle 06:55 2 - The Hymn 05:08 1
Sea Horses 04:57 1
King Arthur (et al) 07:25 2
Jack Frost 03:41 1
Harbour Lights 05:15 2
Future Memories 04:40 2
Chamber of Horrors 06:42 2
Catherine Howard 09:16 2
After the Ball 03:39 2