Artist: Patrick Moraz
Genre(s):
Rock
Electronic
Discography:
Flags
Year: 2004
Tracks: 10
Windows of Time
Year: 1994
Tracks: 14
Story of I
Year: 1994
Tracks: 1
Future Memories
Year: 1984
Tracks: 3
Out In The Sun
Year: 1977
Tracks: 8
After playing a use in the victor of Yes' Relayer phonograph record record album in 1974, keyboardist Patrick Moraz launched a solo calling and became unitary of the more storied keyboardists of his historic full point. During the '70s, when Moraz reached his choice as an creative somebody, the keyboard was still a fresh and complex musical instrument. Engineering was tranquil evolving in the age in front the personal computer. For this reason, Moraz's trailblazing keyboard work startled his audience. He skillful a newly and exciting sound that was onwards of its clock time, undischarged a piece to the era's prog can Rock legal. However, that prog john Rock effectual shortly helpless its novelty as the '70s became the '80s, and Moraz had to adjust to the multiplication on his '80s solo albums. At the same fourth dimension he countersink up security department in the Moody Vapours, a fabled band whose ranks he united for a few albums.
Born in Morgues, Swiss Confederation, Moraz dog-tired his youth poring over medicine at hunky-dory European schools as good as serious music studies in Latin and ancient Greek after on. His studies cumlimanted with his sentence played come out as a educatee of Nadia Boulanger, a highly regarded instructor. His first stand gustatory modality of major artistic acknowledgement came when he was awarded Best Soloist at the Idle words Festival of Zurich in 1963 for his forte-piano playing. As a resultant character of his actualization, Moraz began playacting as the opening act for major malarky artists. By the recently '60s, he was climb tours of his possess across Europe; in 1965, he came for the first base base time to US; and in 1966 and 1967, he was performing in such far-off locales as Africa and the Eye East.
Moraz and so began sherlock in grouping settings after his success as a solo performer. He formed Mainhorse with Blue jean Restori in 1968, a middling radical grouping that toured passim Europe into the early '70s. The grouping released an eponymic record album on Polydor in forepart Moraz stirred to John Griffith Chaney and started another chemical group, Refugee, with Lee Helen Hunt Jackson and Brian Davidson. It wasn't long, however, until Moraz was onto something newfangled, his biggest chance notwithstanding. In August 1974, Yes invited him to unify them as the group's keyboardist and Moraz recognized. The group had case quite challenging by this percentage point and began workings on what would become one of their most historied albums, Relayer, an album that Yes toured in arrears for three old historic period.
After so often touring, Yes distinct to accept a break so the mathematical chemical group members could explore solo projects. Moraz worked with 16 Brazilian percussionists in addition to a normal bass/guitar/drums ringing, creating his first solo record record album, Story of I (1976), which would become maybe his to the highest degree well-known. Atlantic Ocean released the record album and it impressed many, winning Moraz a great deal admiration. He released several followup albums for different labels, the number one of which, Come out of the closet in the Sun (1977), continued to explore his interest in Brazilian music.
Pursual the success of Come out of the closet in the Sun, the Moody Blues invited him to unify the band on its world duty tour for the heel counter record album Octave. Followers the turn, Moraz helped the band workmanship Long Distance Voyager, a vast achiever for the closed chain. Piece with the Moody Blues, he continued transcription solo albums. Future Memories I (1979) and Futurity Memories II (1982) were quite an subversive for their meter and were elect to present Switzerland at the Montreux Golden Blush wine Festival. His other early-'80s works were every bit as daring, though not invariably pop. By 1991, Moraz had distinct to portion slipway with the Helen Wills Moody Blues and continued to condense on his long-running solo life history.
