Rick Wakeman

Rick Wakeman - Journey To The Centre Of The Earth (2012)  Music

Posted by v3122 at Feb. 16, 2013
Rick Wakeman - Journey To The Centre Of The Earth (2012)

Rick Wakeman - Journey To The Centre Of The Earth (2012)
EAC Rip | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & iPod M4A(Tracks) & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Progressive Rock | ~ 389 or 394 or 174 Mb | Scans Included
Future Publishing | CRP13-11-12

In a big picture this new full-fledge version is a masterpiece work as it tells the whole story with excellent music composition and orchestration…
Rick Wakeman's Criminal Record (1977) [2010, Universal Music, UICY-94241]

Rick Wakeman's Criminal Record (1977)
EAC Rip | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & iPod M4A(Tracks) & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Progressive Rock | ~ 257 or 257 or 102 Mb | Scans Included
2010 | Universal Music Japan, UICY-94241 | SHM-CD

This very progressive album is one of the best made by Rick Wakeman, the Yes' keyboardist. The album, as usual, is very keyboards oriented, although there are outstanding drums and bass parts too…

Rick Wakeman - Silent Nights (1985) Repost  Music

Posted by v3122 at Feb. 21, 2013
Rick Wakeman - Silent Nights (1985) Repost

Rick Wakeman - Silent Nights (1985)
EAC Rip | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & iPod M4A(Tracks) & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Progressive Rock | ~ 253 or 256 or 111 Mb | Scans(600dpi, png) -> 114 Mb
TBG / President Records, RWCD1

Wakeman's first of many albums for President Records, this was recorded with a rock band featuring Rick Fenn of Mason-Fenn on guitar, ex-Strawbs bass player Chas Cronk, and perennial Wakeman sideman Tony Fernandez on drums…

Rick Wakeman - Time Machine (1988) Repost  Music

Posted by v3122 at Feb. 27, 2013
Rick Wakeman - Time Machine (1988) Repost

Rick Wakeman - Time Machine (1988)
EAC Rip | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & iPod M4A(Tracks) & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Progressive Rock | ~ 314 or 316 or 121 Mb | Scans(600dpi, png) -> 102 Mb
Bellaphon, 290-07-127

Musically depicting certain historical events and places, Time Machine spotlights Rick Wakeman in his most familiar territory, as his whirlwind keyboard attack takes on a rock & roll feel across numerous conceptual pieces…

Rick Wakeman - Always With You (2010)  Music

Posted by v3122 at March 15, 2013
Rick Wakeman - Always With You (2010)

Rick Wakeman - Always With You (2010)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & iPod M4A(Tracks) & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Music Fusion, MFVP126CD | ~ 195 or 195 or 126 Mb | Scans Included
Instrumental / Solo Piano

2010 release from the veteran keyboardist and Prog legend, a collection of songs written by some of the world's finest composers. Always With You contains compositions from the new and old, all of which have been recorded by Rick in his own inimitable style…

Rick Wakeman - 1984 (1981) [2006, Music Fusion, MFVP101CD]  Music

Posted by v3122 at March 19, 2013
Rick Wakeman - 1984 (1981) [2006, Music Fusion, MFVP101CD]

Rick Wakeman - 1984 (1981)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & iPod M4A(Tracks) & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
2006 | Music Fusion, MFVP101CD | ~ 334 or 337 or 109 Mb | Scans -> 87 Mb
Progressive Rock

Even though the majority of the songs include vocals, Rick Wakeman's 1984 stands as one his most well-rounded albums, combining the dexterity and mastery of the keyboards with the richness and instrumental passion of violins, trombones, and flutes…
Rick Wakeman - Rick Wakeman's Criminal Record (1977) [Universal Music Japan, UICY-9301]

Rick Wakeman - Rick Wakeman's Criminal Record (1977)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
2003 | Universal Music, UICY-9301 | ~ 264 or 112 Mb | Scans Included
Progressive Rock

Within the same year of re-joining Yes for 1977's Going for the One, Rick Wakeman released yet another solo instrumental concept album. Criminal Record, Wakeman's sixth album in five years, involves six tracks that instill Wakeman's keyboard wizardry to both fictional and historical accounts of punishment, villainy, and crime…
Rick Wakeman - Softsword (King John and the Magna Carta) (1991)

Rick Wakeman - Softsword (King John and the Magna Carta) (1991)
EAC Rip | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
1994 | President, RWCD 24 | ~ 353 or 128 Mb | Scans(png, 600dpi) -> 214 Mb
Symphonic Prog / Prog Related

Based on music Wakeman wrote for the finale of a Dickens Festival in Rochester-upon-Medway, England, this is an unclassifiable melange of an album, stylistically similar to Phantom Power or Time Machine…

Rick Wakeman & Tony Fernandez - Zodiaque (1988)  Music

Posted by v3122 at Aug. 22, 2020
Rick Wakeman & Tony Fernandez - Zodiaque (1988)

Rick Wakeman & Tony Fernandez - Zodiaque (1988)
EAC Rip | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Art Rock / New Age | ~ 221 or 112 Mb | Scans(600dpi, png) -> 89 Mb
Relativity/President, 88561-1024-2

Longtime Wakeman associate Tony Fernandez, a drummer, gets co-billing on this album of material co-written by the two. Despite this, half of the tracks are slow and simple instrumentals with only light percussion…
Rick Wakeman - The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1973) [2010, Universal Music, UICY-94235]

Rick Wakeman - The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1973)
EAC Rip | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & iPod M4A(Tracks) & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Progressive Rock | ~ 247 or 247 or 88 Mb | Scans Included
2010 | Universal Music Japan, UICY-94235 | SHM-CD

Not only did this album help pave the way for progressive rock, but it also introduced the unbridled energy and overall effectiveness of the synthesizer as a bona fide instrument…