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Hemispheres 40th Anniversary
2 CD
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Audio CD, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, May 6, 1997
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Track Listings
Disc: 1
1 | Cygnus X - 1 |
2 | Circumstances |
3 | The Trees |
4 | La Villa Strangiato |
Disc: 2
1 | A Passage To Bangkok |
2 | Xanadu |
3 | The Trees |
4 | Cygnus X - 1: Book II Hemispheres - The Sphere (A Kind Of Dream) |
5 | Closer To The Heart |
6 | La Villa Strangiato |
7 | In The Mood |
8 | Drum Solo |
9 | Something For Nothing |
10 | 2112 |
Editorial Reviews
The 2015 Hemispheres album remaster is available on CD for the first time along with previously unreleased and newly restored bonus content consisting of the band’s 1979 Pinkpop festival performance. This edition is housed in a deluxe edition-style digipak featuring a 5,700 word essay by Rob Bowman.
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 6.26 x 4.96 x 0.63 inches; 4.3 ounces
- Manufacturer : Mercury
- Original Release Date : 2018
- Date First Available : October 5, 2018
- Label : Mercury
- ASIN : B07HPY6792
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 2
- Best Sellers Rank: #8,823 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #4,443 in Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
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The album is the third jewel in Rush's 1970s art rock crown.
I first discovered this album on cassette in late August of 1990 and was my most played album in my first three months of freshman year of high school. This album is still great, even today.
Hemispheres was recorded between June and August of 1978 at Rockfield Studios in Wales and Advision Studios in London with the band and Terry Brown once again producing.
The album kicks off with the 18 minute second part to the previous album, 1977's A Farewell To Kings' concluding track "Cygnus X-1 (Book One: The Voyage)" entitled "Cygnus X-1 (Book Two: Hemispheres)" and is about the division of the brain and has the heart and mind struggling with one another with Cygnus being the bringer of Balance (the six segments are Prelude, Apollo, Dionysus, Armageddon, Cygnus and The Sphere). The music of bass player/singer/keyboard player Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson was arguably on top of its game and drummer Neil Peart's lyrics are top-notch on Hemispheres. The piece is incredible and the musicianship is fantastic.
Side two kicked off with "Circumstances" which was a nice short below 4 minute rocker with Geddy singing in more of a lower register on the verses and his then-trademark high pitched vocal in the chorus and featured excellent synthesizer work from Geddy as well (Hemispheres was the first album that Geddy used a polyphonic synthesizer which played whole chords unlike the Moog used on A Farewell to Kings which was monophonic). Next is "The Trees" which is still a concert favorite 29 years later and an excellent song and starts as an acoustic number then goes into full throttle hard rock. The album finishes with the nine and a half minute "La Villa Strangiato" which is arguably the band's best instrumental. The song was recently played on their Vapor Trails and 30th Anniversary tours and Alex Lifeson would add a different hilarious speech before the song goes into the end of the track (when I saw Rush play in July, 2002 and August, 2004 in Boston, Alex's rants were about quitting smoking and he started to smoke socks in 2002 and a mumble jumble rant with a blues improv in 2004) and was the highlight of each show.
Hemispheres may have charted at #41 in 1978 and went Gold immediately and subsequently Platinum but is arguably Rush's finest moment from their 1970s art rock era.
This album still sounds great for a 29-year old album, especially with the remastering Bob Ludwig did on this and all of the Mercury/PolyGram efforts. Also, you get all the original artwork that came with the album and the poster (in CD size) with the band on stage that came with this album originally.
I demand you buy Hemispheres.
I have bought Rush's catalog several times over, starting with cassette, then CD, then remastered CD, then the hi-res digital downloads of every album from HDTracks. This is the DEFINITIVE edition of Hemispheres. I bought this hybrid CD/SACD for 1 reason: the tape hiss during La Villa Strangiato. It was significantly reduced in the 24bit/96kHz download, and is even lower on this disc. I listened to the CD layer on my computer with headphones, through Winamp and Foobar2000. With the main PC volume at 100%, Winamp did not get loud enough for the hiss to be audible. Foobar got louder, so I could tell the hiss wasn't totally eradicated, but back to back comparison proved it to be less than the hi-res download.
I used my home theater system to listen to the SACD layer, and at low to moderate volume the hiss is inaudible. Crank it up and you'll still hear a bit at the intro and the quiet sections, but again, definitely lower than any other release to date. I will be ripping the CD layer and inserting this version on my phone and car stereo since it is worlds better quality than the old remaster disc I used before.
Rush fans who want the best possible version of one of their finest achievements should go for the CD/SACD of Hemispheres. Even for those without an SACD player, the CD layer is superb.