Gentle Giant 24 Bit Vinyl Pack

  Genre: Pop/Rock
  Styles: Progressive Rock, Art Rock
  Source: vinyl
  Codec: FLAC
  Bitrate: ~ 2,900 - 5,600 kbps
  Bit Depth: 24
  Sampling Rate: 96,000 Hz, 192,000 Hz

  24.96

  1970 Gentle Giant - Vertigo (US)
  1972 Octopus - Vertigo 6360 080 (UK)
  1972 Three Friends - Vertigo 6360 070 (UK)
  1975 Free Hand - Chysalis (UK)
  1975 Free Hand - Chrysalis CHR 1093 (UK)

  24.192

  1972 Octopus - Vertigo 6360 080 (Holland)
    
  Gentle Giant were a British progressive rock band active between 1970 and 1980. The band was known for its extreme complexity and sophistication of its music and for the varied musical skills of its members. All of the band members, except Malcolm Mortimore, were multi-instrumentalists. While never achieving the commercial heights of progressive rock contemporaries such as Jethro Tull, Genesis, Yes or Emerson, Lake & Palmer; Gentle Giant was considered to be one of the most experimental bands in the genre. Gentle Giant's music was considered complex even by progressive rock standards, drawing on a broad swath of music including folk, soul, jazz, and classical music. Unlike many of their progressive rock contemporaries, their "classical" influences ranged beyond the Romantic and incorporated medieval, baroque, and modernist chamber music elements. The band also had a taste for broad themes for their lyrics, drawing inspiration not only from personal experiences but from philosophy and the works of both François Rabelais and R.D. Laing.