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