Artist: ALAN PARSONS
Album: ON AIR REISSUE (CD)

Release date: 18.06.2021
EAN/UPS: 8718627233184
Media type: CD

This concept album as the name suggests, is an album dedicated to the skies and learning how to master the art of flying. It stands up to anything Alan Parsons did earlier under the ‘Project’ moniker. It has a nice laidbacksound with lots of interesting layers. Great to listen to on a good set of speakers or headphones .”On Air” was the second album by Alan Parsons (without the “Project”). It is a somewhat underrated concept album on the theme of flight and the history of aviation, from the hot air balloons on the cover picture through to space travel. 10CCs Eric Stewart takes lead vocals for the soft ballad “Blown By The Wind”, and the two “Blue Blue Sky” tracks which bookend the album.

TRACKLIST CD:

1.    "Blue Blue Sky"    Ian Bairnson    Eric Stewart    1:38
2.    "Too Close to the Sun"    Alan Parsons, Bairnson, Stuart Elliott    Neil Lockwood    5:04
3.    "Blown by the Wind"    Bairnson    Eric Stewart    5:25
4.    "Cloudbreak"    Bairnson, Parsons, Elliott    none    4:39
5.    "I Can't Look Down"    Bairnson    Neil Lockwood    4:37
6.    "Brother Up in Heaven"    Bairnson    Neil Lockwood    4:02
7.    "Fall Free"    Bairnson, Elliott, Parsons    Steve Overland    4:21
8.    "Apollo"    Elliott, Parsons, Bairnson    none (spoken words by John F. Kennedy)    6:06
9.    "So Far Away"    Bairnson    Christopher Cross    4:07
10.    "One Day to Fly"    Elliott, Scott English    Graham Dye    6:16
11.    "Blue Blue Sky"    Bairnson    Eric Stewart    4:24