Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, where the Floyd were recording their follow-up to Dark Side of the Moon with Wish You Were Here, Scheherazade is a spectacular journey beyond your wildest dreams that is told throughout this orchestral structure that the band have brought to the table.įrom the moment John Tout plays this Tchaikovsky-sque introduction on ‘Trip to the Fair’, it starts off as an overture where the story begins. Now reissued in a 2-CD/1-DVD set, it is time to revisit the stories that are brought to life. Now the 24-minute track is not based on Rimsky-Korsakov’s composition, but there’s a bit of the pattern that goes with it. This was the very first album that the band didn’t use classical compositions and not featuring songwriting credits.īased on the collection of middle-eastern folk tales during the Islamic Golden Age compiled in Arabic as One Thousand and One Nights, or known in English as the Arabian Nights, Renaissance took a step further to bring parts of the stories to life in an operatic form.
Renaissance had been very busy when they released their sixth studio release originally on the BTF label in the UK and on the Sire label in the States entitled, Scheherazade and Other Stories in 1975. “ I took a trip down to look at the fair / When I arrived, I found nobody there / It seemed I was all alone / Must be that they’ve all gone home.” The opening lines on the lullaby-sque song of Renaissance’s ‘Trip to the Fair’ gives you an insight that you can have all the fun you want, ride the rides, no massive crowds, and imagine yourself from that moment, it will be with you, forever and ever.
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