Progressive AOR/Rock

Original 1996

Near mint condition

Credits:

Geoffrey Downes: keyboards

Produced and mixed by Geoff Downes
Engineered by Mike Jeffries

All tracks programmed, performed and orchestrated by Geoff Downes

Tracks:

1.Africa
2.Livin' on a Prayer
3.Nights in White Satin
4.Little Lies
5.Dreamer
6.I Want to Know What Love Is
7.Drive
8.Whiter Shade of Pale
9.Final Countdown
10.Alone
11.Stairway to Heaven
12.Babe
13.Who's Crying Now
14.Dust in the Wind

Filled with instrumental covers of Geoff Downes musical influences!
 
Keyboardist Geoff Downes was one half of the popular if short-lived Buggles, whose "Video Killed The Radio Star" was a minor new wave hit. Downes and fellow Buggle Trevor Horn then took a surprising detour by joining the progressive rock band Yes. When that band disbanded after one album (Drama), Downes and Yes guitarist Steve Howe formed a new supergroup, Asia, with prog rock veterans John Wetton and Carl Palmer. The band's debut was a huge success, their second and third albums less so, and Asia too soon disbanded. Downes next formed The New Dance Orchestra as a vehicle for his solo music. In 1990, Asia resurfaced with Downes as the de facto leader, and the re-vamped lineup released the first of several new works, Aqua. Downes continues to release occasional discs with and without the New Dance Orchestra, most recently The World Service in the summer of 2000.