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Released
  
1970

Artist
  
Focus

Producer
  
Hubert Terheggen

Length
  
33:30

Release date
  
1970

Label
  
Polydor Records

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Recorded
  
Sound Techniques Studios(London, England)

Focus Plays Focus(In and Out of Focus)(1970)
  
Focus II(Moving Waves)(1971)

Genres
  
Progressive rock, Rock music, Art rock

Similar
  
Focus albums, Progressive rock albums

Focus Plays Focus (better known as its international title In and Out of Focus) is the first studio album from the Dutch rock band Focus, released in 1970 on Imperial Records. It was the band's only album recorded with the original line-up of Thijs van Leer, Jan Akkerman, Martin Dresden and Hans Cleuver.

Contents

Musical style

AllMusic's Richie Unterberger called the album "a fair collection of progressive rock tunes without a clear focus" and noted prominent influences from folk rock, blues, and classical music, as well as "occasional jazzy shadings".

Track listing

Jan Akkerman's "House of the King" (2:20) was originally a Dutch single release, but was added and inserted as track no 2 on the UK album version "In and Out of Focus".

Personnel

Focus
  • Thijs van Leer – vocals, flute, organ, piano, electric piano, mellotron, harpsichord, vibraphone
  • Jan Akkerman – guitars, acoustic guitars
  • Martin Dresden – bass guitar, trumpet, vocals (tracks 2, 3, 5, 6, 7)
  • Hans Cleuver – drums, bongos, vocals (tracks 2, 3, 5, 6, 7)
    • Additional personnel
  • Hubert Terheggen – production
  • Jerry Boys – engineering

    • Songs

    1Focus (instrumental)9:45
    2House of the King2:20
    3Why Dream3:59

    References

    Focus Plays Focus Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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