Genesis - An Acoustic Evening with Genesis (1999-2007) (A MIKE SOLOF GUEST POST)

If you've been regularly following this blog, you may recall that a couple of months ago, I posted a "dream concert" of sorts by the Monkees. That was put together by a musical friend named Mike. It turns out Mike Solof has a lot more music that he'd like to post here. His musical taste is similar to mine, but he likes some musical artists I'm not that keen on. So, at least for now, he's going to focus on those. Basically, the plan is that he'll send me an album, I'll make some tweaks to it, or maybe not, but in the end the idea and most of the effort putting the album together belongs to Mike. From now on, I'll indicate which albums are Mike's efforts by putting his name in the title.

In terms of explaining things, Mike prefers to make a PDF file where he can write at greater length sometimes, and also include pictures. There's such a PDF included with this zip file. But I'll make some basic comments to give you a rough idea of what this is about.

Genesis is known as a progressive rock band, and definitely aren't known to play acoustically. But Mike has found some acoustic versions of some songs, enough to make an hour-long album. All the versions here were recorded from 1999 to 2007. But in terms of the original material, this runs the range from the early 1970s when Peter Gabriel was the lead singer to the 1990s with Phil Collins in command and the band had gone in a much poppier direction. Most of the songs are sung by Collins, but there's about 20 minutes near the end in which Gabriel's early 1970s vocals were overdubbed onto new recorded solo piano versions of Genesis songs.

Mike has this thing where he likes to present his albums as a single mp3 file, to create a continuous flow of music without any gaps. I prefer having each song as a separate track, which helps having the mp3 tag info for each of the songs. Since file size isn't much of an issue on the Internet, we're having it both ways. I'm presenting two zip files. The names should make clear which is which. Both contain Mike's PDF file. 

As for any more comments about this album, please check out Mike's PDF file. And thanks to Mike for wanting to share his music via my blog this way. Hopefully he'll be able to fill in some gaps with some popular music that I'm not that keen on. It seems he especially has a lot of progressive music that I don't (with Genesis here being a good example).

01 I Can’t Dance (Genesis)
02 Invisible Touch (Genesis)
03 Follow You, Follow Me (Genesis)
04 Afterglow (Genesis)
05 Horizons (Genesis)
06 Please Don’t Ask (Genesis)
07 Turn It On Again (Genesis)
08 Ripples (Genesis)
09 Can-Utility and the Coastliners (Yngve Guddal & Roger T. Matte with Peter Gabriel)
10 The Fountains of Salmacis (Yngve Guddal & Roger T. Matte with Peter Gabriel)
11 The Battle of Epping Forest (Yngve Guddal & Roger T. Matte with Peter Gabriel)
12 Blood on the Rooftops (Yngve Guddal & Roger T. Matte with Phil Collins)
13 Mad Man Moon (Yngve Guddal & Roger T. Matte with Phil Collins)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15118273/Gensis_1999-2007_AnAcoustcEveningwithGen_atse.zip.html

Mike didn't present me with cover art for this album, so I made one. I don't know where the cover art photo comes from. I found it in Mike's PDF file. Maybe he can explain. But it looks like the Phil Collins-led version of Genesis performing acoustically in the time period of this album.