Moving Waves

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Moving Waves
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Length
6 tracks, 64:59
Release Date
1 January 1971
Moving Waves is the 1971 second album by the Dutch band Focus. It includes the hit "Hocus Pocus" which features yodelling and operatic falsetto from Thijs van Leer combined with Jan Akkerman's heavy metal guitar. Even though the sound was highly experimental, it became very successful peaking at #9 in the Dutch Top 40 and later becoming popular in the United States with a #9 position on the Billboard Hot 100 and a #2 position in the UK Albums Chart. The album also features "Eruption" − a 23 minute long adaptation of Jacopo Peri's opera Euridice, which t… read more
Moving Waves is the 1971 second album by the Dutch band Focus. It includes the hit "Hocus Pocus" which features yodelling and operatic fals… read more
Moving Waves is the 1971 second album by the Dutch band Focus. It includes the hit "Hocus Pocus" which features yodelling and operatic falsetto from Thijs van Leer combined wit… read more

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Tracklist

Track number Play Loved Track name Artist name Buy Options Duration Listeners
1 Play track Hocus Pocus
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 6:43 200,892 listeners
2 Play track Le Clochard
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 1:59 45,514 listeners
3 Play track Janis
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 3:06 40,677 listeners
4 Play track Moving Waves
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 2:41 23,763 listeners
5 Play track Focus II
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 4:26 35,585 listeners
6 Play track Eruption
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 46:04 23,513 listeners

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There is more than one artist with this name. 1) a Dutch progressive rock band founded in 1969. 2) an American rapper and Hip-Hop producer. 3) Bigband from Valašska, Czech Republic. 4) a Hip-Hop artist from the Sunshine Coast in Australia. 1) Focus is a Dutch progressive rock band founded by classically trained organist/flautist Thijs van Leer in 1969, along with guitarist Jan Akkerman. They are one of the most well-known and influential rock bands from the Netherlands. They successfully fuse inspired jazz, rock, and blues improvisation, classical musical structures, and accessible… read more
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