tracks

Running Hard
I Think Of You
Things I Don't Understand
Black Flame
Cold Is Being
Mother Russia
Everybody Needs A Friend
Mother Russia (Single Edit)
Things I Don't Understand (New Stereo Mix)
Black Flame (New Stereo Mix)
Mother Russia (New Stereo Mix)
Can You Understand
Black Flame
Carpet Of The Sun
Cold Is Being
Things I Don't Understand
Running Hard
Ashes Are Burning
Mother Russia
Prologue
Running Hard
I Think Of You
Things I Don't Understand
Black Flame
Cold Is Being
Mother Russia

notes

Packaged in a clamshell box with 4 mini LP sleeves and 16-page booklet.
1-7 Recorded at De Lane Lea Studios, Wembley, UK on 23rd March 1974 (previously unreleased).
1-8 A-side of single released as Sire Records SAA 714 in 1974 (previously unreleased on CD).

A 25 piece-orchestra appeared alongside Renaissance at The Academy of Music. The concert and the 5.1 surround sound & high resolution stereo mixes on the DVD were mixed from the original 16-track master tapes.

Thanks to Albinoni for "Cold is Being" and to Jehan Alain for the opening piece of "Running Hard".
Grateful thanks must go to Annie Haslam, Terry Sullivan and Jon Camp.
Esoteric Recordings would also like to thank to: Richard Whittaker and all at FX Copyroom in London, Ben Wiseman at Broadlake Studios, Ray Shulman ay iSonic, Paul Robinson, Alan Velasco, Jon Roberts and all at Cherry Red Records.

credits

Acoustic Guitar, Vocals – Michael Dunford
Arranged By – Renaissance (4)
Arranged By [Orchestral Arrangements] – Jimmy Horowitz (tracks: 1-1 to 1-6)
Artwork [Tarot Cards] – Joe Petagno
Authoring – Ray Shulman (tracks: DVD)
Bass, Vocals – John Camp,
Conductor – Walter Hagen (tracks: 2-1 to 3-3)
Coordinator [Additional co-ordination] – Vicky Powell
Design – Meriel Waissman (tracks: CD package)
Design [Original Cover], Photography By – Hipgnosis (2)
Drums, Percussion, Vocals – Terence Sullivan,
Electric Guitar – Andy Powell (tracks: 3-1)
Engineer [Assistant] – Douglas Bogie, Mike Pela
Engineer [Remix] – Jeffrey Lesser
Engineer, Producer – Dick Plant
Keyboards – John Tout
Lead Vocals – Annie Haslam
Liner Notes – Malcolm Dome (tracks: London, November 2019)
Mixed By – Ben Wiseman
Mixed By, Research, Compiled By, Coordinator – Mark Powell
Producer – Renaissance (4), Richard Gottehrer

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Cherry Red America
Copyright (c) – Cherry Red America
Recorded At – De Lane Lea Music Centre – 1-1 to 1-6
Remixed At – Mediasound – 1-1 to 1-6
Recorded At – De Lane Lea Studios – 1-7
Recorded At – Academy Of Music – 2-1 to 3-3
Mixed At – Broadlake Studios – 2-1 to 4-6
Remastered At – Broadlake Studios – 1-1 to 4-6
Distributed By – Cherry Red Records Ltd.

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