The Alan Parsons Project - Eye In The Sky (Hybrid SACD, Ultradisc UHR)
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Alan Parsons: keyboards, Fairlight programming, vocals
David Paton: acoustic, electric & bass guitars, main vocal (3)
Ian Bairnson: acoustic & electric guitars
Mel Collins: saxophone
Chris Rainbow: main vocal (4)
Lenny Zakatek: main vocal (6, 9)
Elmer Gantry: main vocal (7)
Eric Woolfson: keyboards, main vocal (2, 5)
Colin Blunstone: main vocal (10)
Stuart Elliott: drums, percussion
The English Chorale: choir vocals
Bob Howes: Chorus Master
Written by Alan Parsons, Eric Woolfson
1 SACD, Single-pocket gatefold with a 12-panel stapled color booklet containing lyrics for every song plus the original credits
Limited numbered edition
Original analog Master tape : YES
Stereo
Studio
Label : MOFI
Original Label : Arista
Recorded in 1981 at Abbey Road Studios, London, by Alan Parsons on the Sony PCM 1610 system
Engineered by Alan Parsons
Produced by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson
Mastered by Rob LoVerde at Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, Sebastopol, CA
Glass Mastered at Sonopress
Disc made in Germany
Originally released in 1982
Reissued in 2024
Tracks:
- Sirius
- Eye In The Sky
- Children Of The Moon
- Gemini
- Silence And I
- You're Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned
- Psychobabble
- Mammagamma
- Step By Step
- Old And Wise
Reviews :
« Eye in the Sky provided the Alan Parsons Project with their first Top Ten hit since 1977's I Robot, and it's hard not to feel that crossover success was one of the driving forces behind this album. The Project never shied away from hooks, whether it was on the tense white funk of "I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You" or the gleaming pop hooks of "Games People Play," but Eye in the Sky was soft and smooth, so smooth that it was easy to ignore that the narrator of the title track was an ominous omniscient who spied either on his lover or his populace, depending on how deeply you wanted to delve into the concepts of this album. And, unlike I Robot or The Turn of a Friendly Card, it is possible to listen to Eye in the Sky and not dwell on the larger themes, since they're used as a foundation, not pushed to center stage. What does dominate is the lushness of sound, the sweetness of melody: this is a soft rock album through and through, one that's about melodic hooks and texture. In the case of the spacy opening salvo "Sirius," later heard on sports talk shows across America, or "Mammagamma," it was all texture, as these instrumentals set the trippy yet warm mood that the pop songs sustained. And the real difference with Eye in the Sky is that, with the exception of those instrumentals and the galloping suite "Silence and I," all the artiness was part of the idea of this album was pushed into the lyrics, so the album plays as soft pop album -- and a very, very good one at that. Perhaps nothing is quite as exquisite as the title song, yet "Children of the Moon" has a sprightly gait (not all that dissimilar from Kenny Loggins' "Heart to Heart"), "Psychobabble" has a bright propulsive edge (not all that dissimilar from 10cc), and "Gemini" is the project at its dreamiest. It all adds up to arguably the most consistent Alan Parsons Project album -- perhaps not in terms of concept, but in terms of music they never were as satisfying as they were here. » AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Ultra High-Resolution (UHR) is a dual-layer hybrid SACD recorded with Direct Stream Digital Technology at a sampling rate of 11.2 MHZ and a frequency response of DC to 100KHz. In addition, a high-precision down-conversion is utilized for the CD layer (16bit/44.1kHz) to preserve the sonic integrity of the original DSD capture. The result: State-of-the-art sound on any machine that can play either standard compact discs or SACDs.
Ratings :
AllMusic : 4.5 / 5 , Discogs: 4.15 / 5