Red Box - The Circle And The Square LP Vinyl and 50 similar items

Red Box - The Circle And The Square LP Vinyl Record Album, Sire - 9 25436-1, Electronic, Pop, Synth-pop, 1986, ORIGINAL PRESSING! Cover is VG has ring wear, creasing, and discoloration. Promo Stamped Includes original paper lyric sheet in VG condition, has creasing and two inch seam splits on sides and bottom Record is VG++ Labels are very clean Visually Graded Tracklist Side 1 For America 3:43 Heart Of The Sun 4:06 Billy's Line 4:48 Bantu 4:17 Living In Domes 5:37 Lean On Me (Reprise) 1:12 Side 2 Chenko (Tenka-Io) 4:27 Lean On Me (Ah-Li-Ayo) 4:18 Saskatchewan 3:53 Leaders In Seventh Heaven 5:02 Walk Walk 4:37 Amen 0:30 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Red Box are a British pop group first active from the early 1980s to the early 1990s, founded by Simon Toulson-Clarke and Julian Close. They scored two UK Top Ten hits with the singles "Lean on Me (ah-li-ayo)" in 1985 and "For America" in 1986, both of which were included on their debut album The Circle the Square. The Circle the Square, an expansive and eclectic collection of songs, presenting a 'culture clash' of influences both musically and thematically, mixing traditional musical styles—brass ensembles, choral music and chants—with modern Rock and Synth Pop. Among the many vocalists drafted in to create the multi-tracked backing vocals (or "Box Vox") is actor Anthony Head who played Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Prime Minister in Little Britain. The album received praise for its "evocative lyrics" and "global political intelligence" and is notable for introducing 'ethnic rhythms' and elements of World Music into the 1980s pop milieu alongside established artists such as Paul Simon (Graceland, 1986) and Kate Bush (The Sensual World, 1989). It includes a re-worked version of the 1984 Buffy Sainte-Marie cover "Saskatchewan", as well as "Chenko", which was given a more sombre, stately treatment bringing chants to the fore and featuring Alexander Balanescu on violin. Toulson-Clarke and Close, however, found themselves at odds with their record company regarding what it perceived as a lack of mainstream appeal in their choice of material, despite the success of "Lean on Me" in the UK and Europe. Toulson-Clarke responded to WEA's request for something to appeal to American radio with the sardonic "For America", which lambasted what he saw as the style-over-content approach of the American media,[8] as well as alluding to American military involvement in Grenada and Nicaragua. The song was not a hit in the USA, though it did worldwide outsell 'Lean On Me', reaching number one in six countries and the top ten in several others including the UK, where it spent twelve weeks in the chart peaking at number ten .