Looking For Someone
Genesis make a great leap forward with 'Trespass'. Gone are the hesitant, nervous imperfections that fiawed their first album. From the instant Peter Gabriel intones, in a surprisingly rough edged voice, the opening remarks: "Looking for someone... trying to find a memory in a dark room", we hear an artist and a band imbued with a mission. The Genesis roaring on this astoundingly sophisticated opening shot is clearly determined to carve its own unique musical path. The results of hard gigging and long hours of rehearsal are immediately apparent as the band, powered by new drummer John Mayhew, launch into a piece that is virtually an orchestral arrangement, a thousand times more dynamic and exciting than the limp strings and brass that encumbered previous efforts. The team effortlessly copes with complex unison passages, leaping into tempo changes taken at a gallop, and contrasting these with delicate, desultory guitar chords and caressing organ notes. There is a dramatic climax, and Genesis is bom at this instant.
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White Mountain
A shivering intensity is created by the opening guitar notes as Peter embarks on a picturesque story that unfolds rather like a children's radio play with musical accompaniment, as he sings of foxes and wolves and kings. He also introduces the flute into the proceedings, most effective during their calmer moments. The detailed and descriptive lyrics would provide fans with hours of listening pleasure as they pored over his innermost meanings and intentions. This was a crucial part of Genesis' grip on the imagination. As ever, Gabriel tosses in a few quirky asides, in this case some insouciant whistling as Banks completes his rhapsodic Hammond organ statements.
