Moving Waves

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Moving Waves
Studio album by Focus
Released	October 1971
Recorded	1971
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	41:40
Label	EMI
Producer	Mike Vernon
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Focus chronology
In and Out of Focus (1971) Moving Waves (1971) Focus III (1972)

Moving Waves is the 1971 second album by the Dutch band Focus. It includes the hit "Hocus Pocus" which features yodelling and operatic falsetto from Thijs van Leer combined with Jan Akkerman's heavy metal guitar. Even though the sound was highly experimental, it became very successful peaking at #9 in the Dutch Top 40 and later becoming popular in the United States with a #9 position on the Billboard Hot 100 and a #20 position in the UK Singles Chart.

The album also features "Eruption" − a 23 minute long adaptation of Jacopo Peri's opera Euridice, which tells the tale of Orpheus and Euridice.

Moving Waves was one of the albums in the Isis/Eagle Rock Entertainment television documentary Classic Albums.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Hocus Pocus" (Thijs van Leer, Jan Akkerman) – 6:42
2. "Le Clochard" (Jan Akkerman) – 2:01
3. "Janis" (Jan Akkerman) – 3:09
4. "Moving Waves" (Thijs van Leer, Inayat Khan) – 2:42
5. "Focus II" (Thijs van Leer) – 2:56
6. "Eruption:" -23:04
   1. "Orfeus" (van Leer) – 1:22
   2. "Answer" (van Leer) – 1:35
   3. "Orfeus" (van Leer) – 1:20
   4. "Answer" (van Leer) – 0:52
   5. "Pupilla" (van Leer) – 1:03
   6. "Tommy" (Tom Barlage) – 1:45
   7. "Pupilla" (van Leer) – 0:34
   8. "Answer" (van Leer) – 0:21
   9. "The Bridge" (Akkerman) – 5:20
   10. "Break" – 0:24
   11. "Euridice" (van Leer, Eelke Nobel) – 1:40
   12. "Dayglow" (van Leer) – 2:02
   13. "Endless Road" (Pierre van der Linden) – 1:43
   14. "Answer" (van Leer) – 0:34
   15. "Orfeus" (van Leer) – 0:51
   16. "Euridice" (van Leer, Nobel) – 1:37

[edit] Personnel

• Thijs van Leer – piano, Hammond organ, synthesizer, mellotron, harmonium, flutes, accordion, vocals
• Jan Akkerman – guitars, bass guitar, percussion
• Cyril Havermans – bass guitar, vocals
• Pierre van der Linden – drums, percussion.