Ƙungiyar Renaissance ta Biritaniya, a gaskiya, ta riga ta zama dutsen gargajiya. An manta kadan, kadan kadan, amma wanda hits ba su dawwama har yau.
Renaissance: farkon
Ana ɗaukar ranar ƙirƙirar wannan ƙungiyar ta musamman a 1969. A cikin garin Surrey, a cikin ƙananan ƙasar mawaƙa Keith Relf (harp) da Jim McCarthy (ganguna), an ƙirƙiri ƙungiyar Renaissance. Lissafin ya kuma haɗa da 'yar'uwar Relf Jane (vocals) da tsohon mawallafin maɓalli na Matasa Nashville John Hawken.
Gwaje-gwajen Macarty da Relf sun yi ƙoƙari su haɗa irin waɗannan nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan kiɗan iri-iri: na gargajiya, dutsen, jama'a, jazz a kan bangon sautin muryar mata. Abin ban mamaki, sun yi nasara. A sakamakon haka, ya zama alamarsu, wata alama ce ta musamman da ta bambanta wannan rukuni da wasu da yawa masu wasan dutsen gargajiya.
Ƙwallon dutsen da ke amfani da ƙungiyar kade-kade, mafi faɗin kewayon muryoyi da kayan kidan dutse na gargajiya - kari, gitar bass da ganguna - da gaske wani sabon abu ne, na asali ga ƙwararrun magoya bayan ƙarfe masu nauyi.
Kundin su na farko «Renaissance" an sake shi a cikin 1969 kuma nan da nan ya ja hankalin masu sauraro da masu suka. Ƙungiyar ta fara aikin yawon shakatawa mai nasara, cikin sauƙin tattara manyan wurare.
Amma, kamar yadda, duk da haka, kusan ko da yaushe ya faru, a farkon rikodin na biyu album "Illusion", kungiyar fara tarwatsa. Wani ba ya son tashin jirage na har abada, wani ya ja hankalin zuwa ga kiɗan da ya fi nauyi, kuma wani kawai ya ji takura.
Kuma komai zai iya ƙare haka nan idan sabbin membobin ba su zo ƙungiyar ba. Da farko ya kasance mawallafin guitar / mawaƙa Michael Dunford, wanda ƙungiyar ta yi rikodin kundi na biyu, Illusion.
farfadowa. Ci gaba
Ƙungiyar ta shiga cikin canje-canje da yawa: Relph da 'yar uwarsa Jane sun bar kungiyar, kuma McCarthy ya kusan ɓacewa bayan 1971. Sabuwar layin da aka kafa a kusa da ainihin bassist John Camp, mawallafin maballin keyboard John Taut da mai kaɗa Terry Sullivan, da kuma Annie Haslam, mawaƙiyar mawaƙa mai kishin opera da kewayon octave uku.
Kundin su na farko tare da wannan jeri, Prologue, wanda aka saki a cikin 1972, ya fi buri fiye da ainihin jeri. Ya ƙunshi tsawaita saƙon kayan aiki da ƙarar muryar Annie. Amma ainihin nasarar da aka samu a cikin kerawa shine rikodin su na gaba - "Ashes suna ƙonewa", wanda aka saki a cikin 1973, wanda ya gabatar da guitarist Michael Dunford da kuma baƙo memba Andy Powell.
Gudansu na gaba, wanda Sire Records ya rubuta, yana da salon rubutun waƙa mai ƙayatarwa kuma yana cike da wakoki na zahiri da na sufi. Yawan magoya baya yana karuwa akai-akai, abubuwan da suka kirkiro sun yi kara a bangarorin biyu na Tekun Atlantika.
Renaissance a cikin wani sabon matsayi
Renaissance ya zama sananne, ayyukan yawon shakatawa sun fara. Haɗin kai tare da ƙungiyar mawaƙa ta Symphony ta New York kuma ta zama sabon ra'ayi. An gudanar da bukukuwan kide-kide a wurare daban-daban, har ma a babban dakin taro na Carnegie.
Burin kungiyar ya karu da sauri fiye da masu sauraronta, wanda ya ta'allaka ne kan gabar tekun Gabashin Amurka, musamman New York da Philadelphia. Sabon kundi nasu, Scheherazade da sauran Labarun (1975), an gina su a kusa da tsawaita minti 20 don ƙungiyar rock da makaɗa, wanda ya faranta wa magoya bayan ƙungiyar farin ciki amma, da rashin alheri, bai ƙara wasu sababbi ba.
Kundin raye-raye na gaba, wanda aka yi rikodin a wurin kide-kide na New York, sun maimaita kayansu na farko, gami da Scheherazade suite. Ya canza kadan a cikin tunanin magoya baya kuma kawai ya nuna cewa kungiyar ta daina haɓakawa, rikicin kirkire-kirkire ya daidaita a cikin ƙungiyar.
Kuma albums guda biyu na gaba na ƙungiyar ba su sami sabbin masu sauraro ba. A ƙarshen shekarun 70s, Renaissance ya fara wasa mafi kyawun yanayi, babban dutsen punk.
80s. Ci gaba da ayyukan kungiyar
A farkon 80s, an sake fitar da wasu albam da yawa. Ba su da mahimmanci kuma ba su da sha'awa, duka ga masu sauraro da kuma tayin kasuwanci.
A cikin rukuni, an fara squabbles, wasan kwaikwayo, kuma ya fara raba gida biyu, da suna iri ɗaya. Sannan, rikice-rikice tsakanin membobi, shari'ar alamar kasuwanci da rikicin kirkire-kirkire, kungiyar ta daina wanzuwa gaba daya. Akwai jita-jita cewa wadanda suka kafa "Renaissance" suna shirin kaddamar da wani sabon aiki a cikin tsohon salon wasan kwaikwayon. A wannan mataki, duk wannan ya kasance jita-jita.
Komawa ƙungiyar zuwa filin kiɗa
Kamar yadda aka saba, makada da aka wargaza suna da tsare-tsare don maimaita nasarar farko. Don haka Renaissance ya yanke shawarar komawa a cikin '98. Sun sake taru don yin rikodin sabon kundin "Tuscany", wanda aka saki shekaru 3 bayan haka, a 2001. Duk da haka, bayan shekara guda duk abin da ya faru ya sake faruwa: kungiyar ta rabu.
Kuma kawai a cikin 2009, Dunford da Haslam sun sake farfado da ƙungiyar, suna zubar da sabon jini a cikinta. Tun daga wannan lokacin, ƙungiyar ta kasance tana yawon shakatawa da yin rikodin sabbin kundi. Abin takaici, a cikin 2012 ɗaya daga cikin tsofaffin membobin ya mutu: Michael Dunford ya mutu. Amma kungiyar tana rayuwa.
A cikin 2013, an yi rikodin wani kundi na studio "Grandine il vento". Duk da haka, asusun zinariya na ƙungiyar, da kuma na dutsen gabaɗaya, ana iya kiransa aikin farko na mawaƙa, wanda ya kawo musu daraja a duniya.
