Artist: Patrick Moraz
Genre(s):
Rock
Electronic
Discography:
Flags
Year: 2004
Tracks: 10
Windows of Time
Year: 1994
Tracks: 14
Story of I
Year: 1994
Tracks: 1
Future Memories
Year: 1984
Tracks: 3
Out In The Sun
Year: 1977
Tracks: 8
After playing a use in the winner of Yes' Relayer record album in 1974, keyboardist Patrick Moraz launched a solo vocation and became unitary of the more storied keyboardists of his historic period. During the '70s, when Moraz reached his choice as an creative person, the keyboard was still a new and complex instrument. Technology was tranquil evolving in the age in front the personal computer. For this reason, Moraz's trailblazing keyboard work startled his audience. He skillful a new and exciting sound that was forrader of its clock time, undischarged a piece to the era's prog john Rock legal. However, that prog rock effectual shortly helpless its freshness as the '70s became the '80s, and Moraz had to adjust to the times on his '80s solo albums. At the same time he set up security department in the Moody Blues, a fabled band whose ranks he united for a few albums.
Born in Morgues, Switzerland, Moraz dog-tired his youth perusing medicine at hunky-dory European schools as well as classical studies in Latin and ancient Greek after on. His studies cumlimanted with his sentence played out as a student of Nadia Boulanger, a highly regarded teacher. His first base gustation of major artistic acknowledgement came when he was awarded Best Soloist at the Jazz Festival of Zurich in 1963 for his piano playing. As a resultant role of his realisation, Moraz began playacting as the opening act for major nothingness artists. By the late '60s, he was mounting tours of his possess across Europe; in 1965, he came for the first base time to America; and in 1966 and 1967, he was playacting in such far-off locales as Africa and the Middle East.
Moraz and so began operative in grouping settings after his success as a solo performer. He formed Mainhorse with Jean Restori in 1968, a pretty radical grouping that toured throughout Europe into the early '70s. The group released an eponymic record album on Polydor in front Moraz stirred to London and started another radical, Refugee, with Lee Jackson and Brian Davidson. It wasn't long, however, until Moraz was onto something newfangled, his biggest chance yet. In August 1974, Yes invited him to unite them as the group's keyboardist and Moraz recognized. The group had suit quite challenging by this point and began working on what would become one of their most historied albums, Relayer, an album that Yes toured behindhand for three old age.
After so often touring, Yes distinct to accept a break so the mathematical group members could explore solo projects. Moraz worked with 16 Brazilian percussionists in accession to a normal bass/guitar/drums ring, creating his first solo record album, Story of I (1976), which would become perchance his to the highest degree well-known. Atlantic released the album and it impressed many, winning Moraz a great deal wonderment. He released several followup albums for different labels, the first of which, Out in the Sun (1977), continued to explore his pastime in Brazilian music.
Following the success of Out in the Sun, the Moody Blues invited him to unite the band on its reality tour for the counter record album Octave. Following the tour, Moraz helped the band craftsmanship Long Distance Voyager, a vast winner for the ring. While with the Moody Blues, he continued transcription solo albums. Future Memories I (1979) and Future Memories II (1982) were quite revolutionary for their time and were elect to represent Switzerland at the Montreux Golden Rose Festival. His other early-'80s workings were equally as daring, though non constantly pop. By 1991, Moraz had distinct to portion ways with the Moody Blues and continued to condense on his long-running solo life history.
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