Knife-Edge (Emerson, Lake & Palmer song)
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| Studio album by Emerson, Lake & Palmer | ||||
| Released | 20 November 1970 | |||
| Recorded | July–September 1970 | |||
| Studio | Advision Studios, London, England | |||
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| Length | 41:13 | |||
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| Producer | Greg Lake | |||
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| AllMusic |   |
| Robert Christgau | C |
| Rolling Stone | (favorable) |
Emerson, Lake & Palmer is the debut studio album by the English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in November 1970 on Island Records. Recording took place at Advision Studios in July 1970 when the group had yet to perform live, and lasted for three months. The album was supported by the group's show at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer went to number four on the UK Albums Chart and number 18 on the Billboard 200 in the US. "Lucky Man" reached number 48 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the US.
Although the composition of opening track was attributed to the three band members, it is an arrangement for rock band of Béla Bartók's 1911 piano piece Allegro Barbaro.
"Take a Pebble" by Greg Lake is a full band arrangement, with the primary sections being a jazz arrangement by keyboardist Keith Emerson, and the middle section being a folk guitar work by Lake with water-like percussion effects by Carl Palmer, plus a bit of clapping and whistling. The end returns to the jazz arrangement by Emerson, starting with a modal based improvisation on top of the primary ostinato.
"Knife Edge" is based on the first movement of Leoš Janáček's Sinfonietta (1926) with an instrumental middle section that includes an extended quotation from the Allemande of Johann Sebastian Bach's first French Suite in D minor, BWV 812, but played on an organ rather than clavichord or piano.
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