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The Alchemist
Genres: Pop, Rock

Track Listings (14) - Disc #1
1. Schooldays
2. The Old Man Dying
3. Time Passes By
4. The Old Man Calling (Save The People)
5. The Disaster
6. The Sun's Revenge
7. A Secret To Keep
8. The Brass Band Played
9. Rejoicing
10. The Disaster Returns (Devastation)
11. The Death Of The Alchemist
12. The Alchemist
13. Green Eyed Fairy
14. Sister Rosalie

CD Details

All Artists: Home
Title: The Alchemist
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: 101 DISTRIBUTION
Release Date: 4/20/2010
Album Type: Import
Genres: Pop, Rock
Style:
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 5013929729124

Synopsis

Album Description

Digitally remastered and expanded edition of this 1973 Prog Rock gem including two bonus tracks. The band featured a line up of Mick Stubbs (guitar, piano, lead vocals), Laurie Wisefield (lead guitar, vocals), Cliff Williams (bass, vocals) and Mick Cook (drums) and had recorded two previous albums in a more conventional style before recording an album cited by many as a "lost classic" of the Progressive genre. Although critically acclaimed, the album failed to sell in quantities it deserved and Home disbanded the following year. With the addition of guest Jimmy Anderson on Mellotron and synthesiser, the conceptual work also brought the guitar playing of Laurie Wisefield to the fore, eventually leading to his joining Wishbone Ash soon after the demise of Home. This edition includes both sides of Home's 1974 single as bonus tracks. 14 tracks. Esoteric. 2010.

CD Reviews

Another cornerstone of British prog

Golovanov Alexey | Limassol, Cyprus | 04/28/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

""The Alchemist" was the 3rd, the best and the last album of "Home" (1973) - the previous two (Pause for a Hoarse Horse - 2 on 1 CD) were competent and convincing, but one couldn't even expect that the band will come with such an accomplished masterpiece. It is a concept progressive-rock album, based on a story inspired by spiritual or occult side of alchemy (although set up in 20th century). Perhaps Mick Stubbs' voice is a bit too sweet (to my taste), but the album is tightly designed. The drums of Mick Cook are precise and hard, Cliff Williams (bass) and Laurie Wisefield (guitars) are doing really impressive and good job. I would say that it reminds (somehow) "Kansas", "Moody Blues", maybe "Wishbone", but in general the music is not loud - but proud. A very talented piece, and done with lot of taste"