Ship of Memories, the Glossary
Ship of Memories is a compilation album from the Dutch rock band Focus, released in 1976 on EMI-Bovema.[1]
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41 relations: AllMusic, Arado Ar 196, Bass guitar, Belgium, Bert Ruiter, Brussels, Chipping Norton, Chipping Norton Recording Studios, David Kemper, Disco, Discogs, Drum kit, Drum machine, Electric piano, EMI Records, Focus (band), Focus 3, Focus con Proby, German cruiser Admiral Hipper, Guitar, Hamburger Concerto, Hammond organ, Hocus Pocus (song), Instrumental rock, Jan Akkerman, Jazz fusion, Johann Sebastian Bach, Mellotron, Mike Vernon (record producer), Moog synthesizer, Mother Focus, Non-lexical vocables in music, Piano, Pierre van der Linden, Progressive rock, Pump organ, Rock music, Sitar, Thijs van Leer, Western concert flute, World War II.
- Focus (band) albums
- Sire Records compilation albums
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.
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Arado Ar 196
The Arado Ar 196 was a shipboard reconnaissance low-wing monoplane aircraft designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Arado.
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Bass guitar
The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family.
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Belgium
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.
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Bert Ruiter
Bert Ruiter (born 26 November 1946 – 14 March 2022) was a Dutch bass guitarist, record producer, and composer.
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Brussels
Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.
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Chipping Norton
Chipping Norton is a market town and civil parish in the Cotswold Hills in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England, about south-west of Banbury and north-west of Oxford.
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Chipping Norton Recording Studios
Chipping Norton Recording Studios was a residential recording studio in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England, which operated from 1971 until October 1999.
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David Kemper
David Law Kemper (born 1947/8 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American rock drummer who was a member of the Jerry Garcia Band (1983–1994) and Bob Dylan's band (1996–2001).
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Disco
Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightlife scene.
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Discogs
Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases.
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Drum kit
A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums in popular music context) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and sometimes other auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person.
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Drum machine
A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument that creates percussion sounds, drum beats, and patterns.
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Electric piano
An electric piano is a musical instrument that has a piano-style musical keyboard, where sound is produced by means of mechanical hammers striking metal strings or reeds or wire tines, which leads to vibrations which are then converted into electrical signals by pickups (either magnetic, electrostatic, or piezoelectric).
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EMI Records
EMI Records (formerly EMI Records Ltd.) is a British multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group.
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Focus (band)
Focus is a Dutch progressive rock band formed in Amsterdam in 1969 by keyboardist, vocalist, and flautist Thijs van Leer, drummer Hans Cleuver, bassist Martijn Dresden, and guitarist Jan Akkerman.
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Focus 3
Focus 3 or Focus III is the third studio album by Dutch rock band Focus, released as a double album in November 1972 on Imperial Records. Ship of Memories and Focus 3 are Focus (band) albums.
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Focus con Proby
Focus con Proby is the sixth studio album by the Dutch rock band Focus, released in 1978 on EMI Records. Ship of Memories and Focus con Proby are Focus (band) albums.
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German cruiser Admiral Hipper
Admiral Hipper was the lead ship of the of heavy cruisers which served with Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II.
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Guitar
The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings.
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Hamburger Concerto
Hamburger Concerto is the fourth studio album by the Dutch progressive rock band Focus, released in April 1974. Ship of Memories and Hamburger Concerto are albums produced by Mike Vernon (record producer) and Focus (band) albums.
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Hammond organ
The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935.
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Hocus Pocus (song)
"Hocus Pocus" is a song by the Dutch rock band Focus, written by keyboardist, flutist, and vocalist Thijs van Leer and guitarist Jan Akkerman.
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Instrumental rock
Instrumental rock is rock music that emphasizes instrumental performance and features very little or no singing.
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Jan Akkerman
Jan Akkerman (born 24 December 1946) is a Dutch guitarist.
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Jazz fusion
Jazz fusion (also known as fusion, jazz rock, and jazz-rock fusion) is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period.
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Mellotron
The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical musical instrument developed in Birmingham, England, in 1963.
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Mike Vernon (record producer)
Michael William Hugh Vernon (born 20 November 1944) is an English music executive studio owner, and record producer from Harrow, Middlesex.
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Moog synthesizer
The Moog synthesizer is a modular synthesizer invented by the American engineer Robert Moog in 1964.
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Mother Focus
Mother Focus is the fifth studio album by the band Focus, released in 1975 on Polydor (cat. no. 2310 408) in Europe, on Atco Records in North America and on EMI in Japan. Ship of Memories and Mother Focus are Focus (band) albums.
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Non-lexical vocables in music
Non-lexical vocables, which may be mixed with meaningful text, are a form of nonsense syllable used in a wide variety of music.
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Piano
The piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, through engagement of an action whose hammers strike strings.
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Pierre van der Linden
Pierre van der Linden (born 19 February 1946) is a Dutch drummer, songwriter and member of the band, Focus.
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Progressive rock
Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog) is a broad genre of rock music that primarily developed in the United Kingdom through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s.
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Pump organ
The pump organ or reed organ is a type of organs using free-reeds that generates sound as air flows past the free-reeds, the vibrating pieces of thin metal in a frame.
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Rock music
Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Sitar
The sitar is a plucked stringed instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used in Hindustani classical music.
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Thijs van Leer
Thijs van Leer (born 31 March 1948) is a Dutch singer and keyboardist, best known as the founding member of the rock band Focus as its primary vocalist, keyboardist, and flautist.
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Western concert flute
The Western concert flute is a family of transverse (side-blown) woodwind instruments made of metal or wood.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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See also
Focus (band) albums
- At the Rainbow
- Focus 11
- Focus 3
- Focus II
- Focus Plays Focus
- Focus X
- Focus con Proby
- Hamburger Concerto
- Live at the BBC (Focus album)
- Mother Focus
- Ship of Memories
- The Focus Family Album
Sire Records compilation albums
- All the Stuff (And More) Volume One
- All the Stuff (And More) Volume Two
- Bonus Rarities and Outtakes
- Catching Up with Depeche Mode
- Dark Adapted Eye
- Groovies' Greatest Grooves
- Hatful of Hollow
- Japanese Whispers
- Just Say Anything
- Just Say Da
- Just Say Mao
- Just Say Roe
- Just Say Yes (compilation album)
- Just Say Yesterday
- Just Say Yo
- Kid Creole Redux
- Loud, Fast Ramones: Their Toughest Hits
- Louder Than Bombs
- Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968
- People Are People (album)
- Pirate Radio (box set)
- Popular Favorites 1976–1992: Sand in the Vaseline
- Ramones Mania
- Ship of Memories
- Smile (Ride album)
- Songs to Learn & Sing
- Talking Heads (album)
- The Best of Depeche Mode Volume 1
- The Best of Talking Heads
- The Immaculate Collection
- The Singles (Pretenders album)
- The Two Ring Circus
- The World Won't Listen
- Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye: A Tribute to Roky Erickson
- Your New Favourite Band