Mister Stormy has delved into the session reels from the recording of In The Wake Of Poseidon to give us this incredibly intimate portrait of Greg Lake at the microphone in 1970. You get a real sense of the vocal power at Lake’s disposal when you hear it without any overdubbing or post-productions from the title track’s opening. In the latter stages he double tracks the lines (from ‘scaling knife’) and then the gorgeous harmonies for the coda. Even with all the other tracks stripped away this is a powerful listening experience.
Mister Stormy has delved into the session reels from the recording of In The Wake Of Poseidon to give us this incredibly intimate portrait of Greg Lake at the microphone in 1970. You get a real sense of the vocal power at Lake’s disposal when you hear it without any overdubbing or post-productions from the title track’s opening. In the latter stage...