Artist: RENAISSANCE
Album: RENAISSANCE REMASTERED (CD)

Year: 1969/ 1995
Media type: CD

Renaissance were an English progressive rock band, most notable for their 1978 UK top 10 hit "Northern Lights".

Former Yardbirds members Paul Samwell-Smith, Keith Relf, and Jim McCarty organised a new group devoted to experimentation between rock, Folk, and classical forms. This quintet — Relf on guitar & vocals, McCarty on drums, plus bassist Louis Cennamo, pianist John Hawken, and Relf's sister Jane Relf as an additional vocalist — released a pair of albums on Elektra (US) and Island, the first one being produced by Samwell-Smith. As touring began to grind on them, the band gradually dissolved one by one, leaving McCarty and Jane Relf to hold things together. As the rest drifted off, new or guest members were added. A barely finished second album, Illusion, was released in Germany in 1971. It was finally released in the UK in 1976.

TRACKLIST:

1 Kings And Queens
10:58

2 Innocence
07:09

3 Island
05:59

4 Wanderer
04:04

5 Bullet
11:26

Bonustracks
6 The Sea
03:05

7 Island (Single Version)
03:36

LINE-UP:

Keith Relf - vocals, guitar, harmonica
Jim McCarty - percussion, vocals
John Hawken - piano, harpsichord
Louis Cennamo - bass
Jane Relf - vocals, percussion