Artist: Empire
Genre(s):
Metal
Other
Discography:
Chasing Shadows
Year: 2007
Tracks: 10
Leeches
Year: 2004
Tracks: 10
Empire had its origins in the demise of the dance band Flash -- in fact, for a short patch its name was just Flash Mk. II. Guitarist Peter Banks, once of Yes, emerged from management disputes of Flash to attract together a band of jam-mates in the loosely integrated ZOX and the Radar Boys. These jams had featured Phil Collins in arrears the drums, though his dedication to Genesis meant that he could only baby-sit in on a few tracks of the 1974 transcription roger Huntington Sessions for the new named Empire.
The sound of Empire had trenchant progressive elements, as unitary power gestate with both Banks and Collins close to. Their recordings, though, were marked by a willingness to dip into a wide change of musical genres, from blues to area blues. The band was also unusual among reform-minded bands in existence fronted by a woman. Although Renaissance had the ethereal vocalization of Annie Haslam, Empire's Sydney Foxx provided a notable counterpoint to the band's complexness by with her hard bluesy vocals, not unlike Lydia Pense or regular Janis Joplin at times.
Empire's put to work brought small success, though. Despite some expectancy among the pop music squeeze, Banks and Foxx were unable to ground statistical distribution for their work either in Britain or the U.S. Still clinging to hope, the mathematical group recorded deuce more albums in the '70s only to no avail. It was to be two decades in front One Way released them on CD; and piece non precisely lost classics, the albums are of a high sufficiency quality that it's unfortunate that the striation was unable to aim whatsoever footing in front its separation in 1980.
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