Divergence (album)

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Divergence
Solutiondivergence.jpg
Studio album by Solution
Released 1972
Genre progressive rock, jazz rock
Label Harvest Records
Producer John Schuursma
Solution chronology
Solution
(1971)		Divergence
(1972)		 Cordon Bleu
(1975)

Divergence is the second album by the Dutch progressive rock group Solution. It was released in 1972 on the EMI subsidiary Harvest Records.

Netherlands Constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Europe

The Netherlands is a country located mainly in Northwestern Europe. The European portion of the Netherlands consists of twelve separate provinces that border Germany to the east, Belgium to the south, and the North Sea to the northwest, with maritime borders in the North Sea with Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom. Together with three island territories in the Caribbean Sea—Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba— it forms a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The official language is Dutch, but a secondary official language in the province of Friesland is West Frisian.

Progressive rock is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the mid to late 1960s. Initially termed "progressive pop", the style was an outgrowth of psychedelic bands who abandoned standard pop traditions in favour of instrumentation and compositional techniques more frequently associated with jazz, folk, or classical music. Additional elements contributed to its "progressive" label: lyrics were more poetic, technology was harnessed for new sounds, music approached the condition of "art", and the studio, rather than the stage, became the focus of musical activity, which often involved creating music for listening, not dancing.

Solution were a Dutch progressive rock band that existed from 1970 to 1983, during which time they released six studio albums and one live album. They incorporated jazz, rock, pop and soul influences, becoming more commercial on their fifth and sixth albums.

Contents

History

This album is among the most progressive by the group. It consists of three instrumental pieces ("Fever", "Theme" and the title track) next to three tracks with vocals, sung by Guus Willemse, who had joined the band in 1971.

Beginning as a piano-led song, "Second Line" "diverges" into a lengthy instrumental section which reprises a theme first heard in "Preview", from the album Solution the previous year. Similarly, "Theme" is based on a motif from the introduction to "Concentration".

<i>Solution</i> (Solution album) album by Solution

Solution is the first album by the Dutch symphonic rock group Solution. It was released in 1971 on the Decca label.

Part of the track "Divergence" was used by Focus in their "Eruption" suite, found on their 1971 album Focus II (Moving Waves). The section was titled "Tommy" after Solution saxophonist Tom Barlage. [1] Consequently, the original song is perhaps the most well-known Solution track, owing to the success Focus enjoyed in the early seventies (Focus II is also home to the hit single "Hocus Pocus").

Focus (band) Dutch rock band

Focus are a Dutch progressive rock band formed in Amsterdam in 1969 by keyboardist, vocalist, and flautist Thijs van Leer. The band have undergone numerous formations in its history. Since December 2016, it has comprised van Leer, drummer Pierre van der Linden, guitarist Menno Gootjes, and bassist Udo Pannekeet. Past members include guitarist Jan Akkerman, drummer Hans Cleuver and bassists Martijn Dresden, Bert Ruiter and Bobby Jacobs. They have sold one million RIAA-certified albums in the United States.

<i>Focus II</i> 1971 studio album by Focus

Moving Waves is the second studio album from the Dutch rock band Focus, released in October 1971 on Imperial Records. Following the departure of Martin Dresden and Hans Cleuver in 1970, the band recruited Cyril Havermans on bass and Pierre van der Linden on drums and proceeded to work on new material. The album includes "Hocus Pocus", the group's most successful single, and "Eruption", a 23-minute track based on the opera Euridice by Jacopo Peri.

Hocus Pocus (song) 1973 single by Focus

"Hocus Pocus" is a song by the Dutch rock band Focus, written by keyboardist, flautist and vocalist Thijs van Leer and guitarist Jan Akkerman. It was recorded and released in 1971 as the opening track of their second studio album, Moving Waves.

Divergence was reissued in 1976 as a double set with the first album, simply titled Solution. The shortest song, "Fever", was left off the subsequent reissue on Compact Disc in 1988, but was included on The Ultimate Collection in 2006.

Track listing

  1. "Second Line"(8:44)
    • (Waterman/Barlage/Willemse/Ennes)
  2. "Divergence"(5:58)
    • (Waterman/Barlage/Willemse/Ennes)
  3. "Fever"(4:22)
    • (Waterman/Barlage/Willemse/Ennes)
  4. "Concentration"(12:28)
    • (Waterman/Barlage/Willemse/Ennes)
  5. "Theme"(:38)
    • (Waterman/Barlage/Willemse/Ennes)
  6. "New Dimension"(6:25)
    • (Waterman/Barlage/Willemse/Ennes)

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ beachradio.nl (link)
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