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Boxset / Compilation · 2020

Filed under Jazz Related Rock
By FOCUS

Tracklist

Focus Plays Focus / In And Out Of Focus
1-1 Focus (Instrumental) 9:46
1-2 Why Dream 3:56
1-3 Happy Nightmare (Mescaline) 3:56
1-4 Anonymus 7:01
1-5 Black Beauty 3:05
1-6 Sugar Island 3:02
1-7 Focus (Vocal) 2:43
Bonus Tracks
1-8 House Of The King 2:23
1-9 Eruption (Live Lanx 1970) 37:31
Focus II / Moving Waves
2-1 Hocus Pocus 6:41
2-2 Le Clochard 1:59
2-3 Janis 3:06
2-4 Moving Waves 2:41
2-5 Focus II 4:03
2-6 Eruption (Orfeus – Answer – Orfeus – Answer – Pupilla – Tommy – Pupilla – Answer – The Bridge – Euridice – Dayglow – Endless Road – Answer – Orfeus – Euridice) 23:07
Bonus Tracks
2-7 Hocus Pocus (Single Version) 3:27
2-8 Tommy (Single Version) 3:25
2-9 Focus I (Live Texel 1971) 14:11
Focus 3
3-1 Round Goes The Gossip... 5:16
3-2 Love Remembered 2:48
3-3 Sylvia 3:32
3-4 Carnival Fugue 6:07
3-5 Focus III 6:05
3-6 Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! 14:03
3-7 Anonymus II (Part 1) 19:33
3-8 Anonymus II (Conclusion) 7:34
3-9 Elspeth Of Nottingham 3:13
Bonus Tracks
3-10 Sylvia (Single Version) 3:32
3-11 Love Remembered (Single Version) 2:49
3-12 Hocus Pocus (US Single Version) 3:25
At The Rainbow
4-1 Focus III 3:52
4-2 Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! 11:26
4-3 Focus II 4:24
4-4 Eruption (Orfeus – Answer – Orfeus – Answer – Pupilla – Tommy – Pupilla) 8:40
4-5 Hocus Pocus 8:27
4-6 Sylvia 2:47
4-7 Hocus Pocus – Reprise 2:48
Bonus Tracks
4-8 P’s March (Original Mix – Single Version) 3:27
4-9 Ship Of Memories (Original Mix) 4:40
4-10 P’s March (Original Mix – Full Version) 4:03
Hamburger Concerto
5-1 Delitae Musicae 1:13
5-2 Harem Scarem 5:50
5-3 La Cathèdrale De Strasbourg 4:57
5-4 Birth 7:45
5-5 Hamburger Concerto (Starter – Rare – Medium I – Medium II – Well Done – One For The Road) 20:23
Bonus Tracks
5-6 Early Birth 2:56
5-7 Harem Scarem (Single Version) 3:08
5-8 Birth (Alternate Mix) 7:43
5-9 Harem Scarem (Alternate Mix) 5:51
Mother Focus
6-1 Mother Focus 3:05
6-2 I Need A Bathroom 3:04
6-3 Bennie Helder 3:33
6-4 Soft Vanilla 3:04
6-5 Hard Vanilla 2:35
6-6 Tropic Bird 2:45
6-7 Focus IV 3:57
6-8 Someone’s Crying... What? 3:19
6-9 All Together... Oh That! 3:41
6-10 No Hang Ups 2:56
6-11 My Sweetheart 3:38
6-12 Father Bach 1:33
Bonus Tracks
6-13 Focus IV (Rough Mix) 4:02
6-14 Bennie Helder (Rough Mix) 3:45
6-15 Vanilla (Rough Mix) 5:42
6-16 Mother Focus (Rough Mix) 3:02
6-17 All Together… Oh That! (Rough Mix) 3:42
6-18 My Sweetheart (Rough Mix) 3:46
6-19 Someone’s Crying… What! (Rough Mix) 3:18
6-20 Studio 55 Jam 6:56
Ship Of Memories
7-1 P’s March 4:48
7-2 Can’t Believe My Eyes 5:22
7-3 Focus V 3:02
7-4 Out Of Vesuvius 5:51
7-5 Glider 4:40
7-6 Red Sky At Night 5:52
7-7 Spoke The Lord Creator 2:33
7-8 Crackers 2:42
7-9 Ship Of Memories 1:47
Bonus Tracks
7-10 Elektrisch Levenslicht 3:09
7-11 The Shrine Of God 3:39
7-12 Watch The Ugly People 2:19
7-13 House Of The King (Rough Mix Version 1) 2:27
7-14 House Of The King (Rough Mix Version 2) 2:26
7-15 Focus (Unreleased Single Version) 4:37
7-16 Hocus Pocus (US Single Version – Takes 14-17) 7:12
7-17 Glider (Single Version) 3:28
7-18 P’s March (Single Version) 4:07
7-19 O Avondrood 5:10
7-20 Crackers (Vocal Version) 2:31
Focus BBC 1973
8-1 Focus III 3:54
8-2 Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! 12:09
8-3 Focus II 5:06
8-4 Anonymus II 23:30
8-5 Focus I 4:27
8-6 Hocus Pocus 7:38
8-7 Sylvia – Hocus Pocus (Reprise) 5:52
Live 1971 - 1975
9-1 Eruption (Live Rotterdam 1971) 46:37
9-2 Birth 11:38
9-3 Improvisation #1 8:35
9-4 House Of The King 3:02
9-5 Improvisation #2 6:23
9-6 Hocus Pocus 3:20
Focus Sight & Sound Vol.1
BBC The Old Grey Whistle Test (May 1972) (24:26)
DVD1-1 Eruption/Hocus Pocus (Take 1)
DVD1-2 Eruption/Hocus Pocus (Take 2)
BBC The Old Grey Whistle Test (December 1972) (16:01)
DVD1-3 Anonymous II (Take 2)
DVD1-4 Sylvia/Hocus Pocus (Take 1)
Focus At The Rainbow (May 1973) (47:28)
DVD1-5 Focus III
DVD1-6 Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers!
DVD1-7 Focus II
DVD1-8 Eruption
DVD1-9 Hocus Pocus
DVD1-10 House Of The King
DVD1-11 Britannia (Jan Akkerman Lute Solo)
DVD1-12 Sylvia/Hocus Pocus (Reprise)
BBC In Concert (April 1974) (36:18)
DVD1-13 Hamberger Concerto
DVD1-14 La Cathèdrale De Strasbourg
DVD1-15 Harem Scarem
DVD1-16 Sylvia/Hocus Pocus (Reprise)
Focus Sight & Sound Vol.2
DVD2-1 NOS Van Gewest Tot Gewest (July 1970) 1:54
DVD2-2 NOS Uit De Kunst (June 1972) 3:51
RTE The Music Makers: Focus At The Stadium (November 1973) (48:00)
DVD2-3 Anonymous II
DVD2-4 Eruption
DVD2-5 Hocus Pocus
DVD2-6 Sylvia/Hocus Pocus (Reprise)
VARA Nederpopzien (December 1973) (34:22)
DVD2-7 House Of The King
DVD2-8 Hocus Pocus
DVD2-9 Britannia (Jan Akkerman Lute Solo)
DVD2-10 Hamberger Concerto
DVD2-11 Sylvia/Hocus Pocus (Reprise)
DVD2-12 AVRO Toppop: Harem Scarem (May 1974) 3:01
DVD2-13 AVRO Toppop: O Avondrood (June 1976) 4:51
Veronica Goud van Oud (April 1990) (16:44)
DVD2-14 Focus III
DVD2-15 Focus II
DVD2-16 House Of The King
DVD2-17 Tommy
DVD2-19 Sylvia
DVD2-19 NCRV Classic Albums: Moving Waves (June 1997) 50:02

Line-up/Musicians

Backing Vocals – Mike Vernon (tracks: 3-1)
Bass Guitar, Trumpet, Backing Vocals – Martijn Dresden (tracks: 1-1 to 1-7, 7-7, 7-10 to 7-14, DVD2-1)
Bass Guitar, Vocals – Cyril Havermans (tracks: 2-1 to 2-6)
Bass Guitar, Vocals, Autoharp, Triangle, Finger Cymbals, Bells [Swiss Bells], Handclaps – Bert Ruiter (tracks: 3-1 to 7-5, 7-8, 7-9, 7-12-7, 7-16, 7-18, 7-20, 8-1 to 8-7, 9-1 to 9-6)
Cello – Wouter Möller (tracks: 1-3)
Drums – David Kemper (tracks: 6- to 6-9, 6-11 to 6-20, 7-6, 7-8, 7-19, 7-20), Pierre Van Der Linden (tracks: 2-1 to 4-7, 7-1 to 7-5, 7-9, 7-15 to 7-18, 8-1 to 8-7, 9-1, 9-3 to 9-6, DVD1-1 to DVD1-15, DVD2-2 to DVD2-6)
Drums, Congas, Tambourine, Castanets, Cabasa, Wood Block, Gong, Timpani, Cuica, Percussion [Flexatone], Handclaps – Colin Allen (tracks: 5-1 to 5-9, 6-10, 9-2, DVD1-13 to DVD1-16, DVD2-7 to DVD2-13)
Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals – Hans Cleuver (tracks: 1-1 to 1-7, 7-7, 7-10 to 7-15, DVD2-1)
Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Bass Guitar, Lute, Timpani, Handclaps – Jan Akkerman
Organ [Hammond], Mellotron, Flute, Lead Vocals, Harmonium, Soprano Flute, Alto Flute, Harpsichord, Piccolo Flute [Piccolo], Synthesizer, Electric Piano, Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes], Synthesizer [Minimoog], Vibraphone [Vibes], Accordion, Organ [St May The Virgin - Barnes], Recorder, Handclaps, Whistle [Whistles], Grand Piano – Thijs Van Leer
Tambourine – Mike Vernon (tracks: 3-3)
Vocals – Bram Vermeulen (tracks: 7-10), Ramses Shaffy (tracks: 7-11, 7-12)

About this release

Red Bullet ‎– RB 66.317 (Europe)