Kansas - Audio Visions (Vinyle translucide avec marques bleues)
Steve Walsh - keyboards, vibraphone, percussion, lead and backing vocals
Kerry Livgren - guitars, keyboards, percussion, backing vocals
Robby Steinhardt - violin, viola, lead and backing vocals
Rich Williams - guitar, percussion, backing vocals
Dave Hope - bass guitar, backing vocals
Phil Ehart - drums, percussion, backing vocals
Donna Williams – additional voice and sounds
Joey Jelf – additional voice and sounds
Lisa White – additional voice and sounds
Victoria Livgren – additional voice and sounds
Terry Ehart – additional voice and sounds
The Four Bassmen – additional voice and sounds
1 LP, Gatefold Cover & Poster
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : Translucent Blue Swirl
Speed : 33RPM
Size : 12”
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : RTI
Label : Friday Music
Original Label : Kirshner
Recorded at Axis Sound Studio, Atlanta
Engineered & mixed by Greg Webster
Produced by Kansas
Remastered by Joe Reagoso
Originally released in 1980
Reissued in 2018
Tracks:
Side A
- Relentless
- Anything For You
- Hold On
- Loner
- Curtain Of Iron
Side B
- Got To Rock On
- Don't Open Your Eyes
- No One Together
- No Room For A Stranger
- Back Door
Reviews :
"By the time of their eighth album, Audio-Visions, Kansas had entered the post-platinum solo-album phase of the typical successful rock group's career. Leaders Kerry Livgren and Steve Walsh were devoting time to making their own records, and Kansas was becoming a part-time occupation. The two divided up the songwriting chores on Audio-Visions, alternating Livgren's always spiritual and by now explicitly religious lyrical sentiments and ornate musical structures with Walsh's earthier and harder-rocking concerns. Livgren's Christian-themed "Hold On" ("Outside the door He is waiting") made the Top 40, and Walsh's "Got to Rock" was a singles-chart entry, but nothing here matched the music from the group's late-'70s heyday. Audio-Visions was the last of seven straight Kansas albums to go gold or platinum and the last album made by the group's most successful lineup. In 1981, Walsh quit." AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann
Ratings :
AllMusic : 3 / 5 , Discogs : 3,75 / 5