There’s a reason Greg Lake deemed Trilogy “such an accurate record” when looking back at it decades later. Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s third studio album teems with exacting arrangements, copious overdubs, and multi-hued colors that showcase the band’s willingness to experiment and desire to put everything in its proper place without becoming too self-serious. Expanding by distilling the ferocious power of its debut and epic leanings of the preceding Tarkus into a more accessible whole, Trilogy stands as the most representative example of the ensemble’s trademark styles.
Mastered at MoFi’s California studio and housed in a mini-LP-type gatefold sleeve, Mobile Fidelity’s numbered-edition hybrid SACD of Trilogy presents the gold-certified effort in audiophile sound.
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The mention of the name Greg Lake will immediately takes your thoughts back to his work with Emerson, Lake & Palmer, the band he formed with keyboard maestro Keith Emerson, and powerhouse drummer, Carl Palmer, with whom he recorded nine studio albums between 1970 (Emerson, Lake & Palmer) and 1994 (In The Hot Seat), as well as 1986’s Emerson, Lake & Powell with drummer Cozy Powell, a period which also saw him release his massive Christmas hit single, ‘I Believe In Father Christmas’. Besides that, and even before ELP, Lake had also supplied bass and vocals for Robert Fripp’s progressive rock behemoth King Crimson on its genre defining debut album In The Court Of The Crimson King (1969) as well as supplying vocals on its follow up…