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Trace - Trace (1974)

Genre: Progressive Rock, Jazz Fusion, Instrumental Virtuoso

Rick van der Linden’s father was a piano player, so it was not a surprise that young Rick took piano-lessons. Later he started to learn playing the organ and finally he went to the Haarlem Conservatory. He played in many bands and nightclubs and was impressed by Brian Auger and Keith Emerson. Rick got worldwide recognition with the ‘classic-rock formula’ from Ekseption but he wanted his own band to show his keyboard pyrotechnics. He founded Trace with bass player Jaap van Eik (Cuby and the Blizzards, The Motions, Solution, Living Blues) and drummer Pierre van der Linden (Tee Set, Brainbox, Focus), a real Dutch supergroup! Now he got the opportunity to work out his own ideas with keyboard-dominated symphonic rock. In ’74 Trace released their eponymous debut-album, in ’75 their second entitled "Birds" (Ian Mosley had replaced Pierre van der Linden) and in ’76 their third and final "White Ladies". Trace is a kind of Dutch equivalent to early ELP but Rick has a wider array of keyboards, including Hammond B3 organ, Hohner clavinet and pianet, ARP – and EMI synthesizers, harpsichord, Solina string-ensemble, Mellotron and church organ. He even used the sound of a bagpipe! The music is a treat for fans from bands like The Nice, ELP, Triumvirat and early Le Orme. Despite good albums, great concerts and worldwide recognition, Trace didn’t work out the high expectations and the ‘supertrio’ dissolved in the late Seventies. Nowadays Jaap van Eik is chief-editor from the technical based music magazine Music Maker and Rick is after many years again on tour with a new Ekseption line-up, including a magnificent digital church organ and his wife on vocals. ~ Bio by Erik Neuteboom @ Buy Book at Lowest Price on Amazon

Listening to Trace's first album, it's like a war. Notes sprawling and tearing up your inner ear like bullets fired straight out of a smoking machine gun. Lightning Bach style, super tight bass/drum interplay. It's Emerson Lake & Palmer... but without the gigantic ego, the lyrical bullcorn and the awful by-product filler that every album's filled with.

Some bands are just TOO COMPETENT to write a page of history (and therefore, being understood) and Trace is one of the leader in this sad but mind-boggling category maybe with Echolyn or Par Lindh Project.

In fact, the product is purely an exercise, so it's not accessible and therefore, dispensable. In no way these guys thought they would carry on or reform on day on the sake of making a few dollars. Because this band probably made some money by doing marathon concerts. Hard working, not physically attractive (Rick van der Linden looks like an anorexic Leif Ericksson) and ridiculously perfectionnist... dude, this record is tough to swallow and needs time to digest to full appreciation.

This is a major kick in Rachmaninov's...er, piano I guess. ~ Review by John Von Bayer @

Tracklisting:

1. Gaillarde (6:22)

2. Gare le Corbeau (2:04)

3. Gaillarde (4:36)

4. The Death Of Ace (5:15)

5. The Escape Of The Piper (3:13)

6. Once (4:13)

7. Progression (12:00)

8. A Memory (3:47)

9. Lost Past (3:26)

10. A Memory (1:40)

11. Final Trace (3:52)

12. Progress (4:05)

13. Tabu (4:14)

Total Time: 58:47

Line-Up:

- Rick Van Der Linden / keyboards

- Jaap Van Eik / bass, guitar

- Pierre Van Der Linden / drums

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