Label: Music Fusion
Reissued 2014, Originally released 1999
Twenty-five years after the release of Rick Wakeman's groundbreaking Journey to the Centre of the Earth album, a sequel entitled Return to the Centre of the Earth was released, this time including a who's who of musicians and vocalists. Still employing the London Symphony Orchestra to accompany his plethora of keyboards, Wakeman uses Patrick Stewart of Star Trek: The Next Generation fame to narrate the story and former Yes guitarist Trevor Rabin for some spicy solos. But, even with famed vocalists like Justin Hayward, Bonnie Tyler, and Ozzy Osbourne in the spotlight, the music gets lost in fields of pretentious instrumental clamoring and strays far from Wakeman's intentional story line.
Track listing:
- A Vision
- The Return Overture
- Mother Earth
- The Shadow Of June
- The Gallery
- The Avenue Of Prismed Light
- The Earthquake
- Buried Alive
- The Enigma
- Is Anybody There?
- The Ravine
- The Dance Of A Thousand Lights
- The Shepherd
- Mr Slow
- Bridge Of Time
- Never Is A Long, Long Time
- Tales From The Lidenbrook Sea
- River Of Hope
- Hunter And Hunted
- Fight For Life
- The Kill
- Timeless History
- Still Waters Run Deep
- Time Within Time
- The Ebbing Tide
- The Electric Storm
- Ride Of Your Life
- Floating
- Globes Of Fire
- Cascades Of Fear
- Floodflames
- The Volcano
- Tongues Of Fire
- The Blue Mountains
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The End Of The Return