Unlike most popular bands, the Project were not a touring act, and their leader was primarily a producer/engineer. Most of these records were commercially successful, and the Project were able to maintain a consistent sound despite the unconventional structure of the group. But he teamed up in the mid ’70s with Eric Woolfson, a successful pop songwriter, and the duo wound up releasing 10 concept albums of meticulously crafted progressive art-rock.
Parsons and his eponymous Project, because it’s extremely relevant in terms of how the group would come to function: Parsons, as is well known, worked on the Beatles’ Abbey Road and Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, which would have been enough of a legacy for most of his peers. So the recent reissue of six of their albums has provided an amazing opportunity to get reacquainted with some music that’s practically a part of my DNA.Ī bit of background on Mr. I delved into the Project for a time in my early teens, but outside of a few songs, I haven’t really listened to them in almost 15 years. The Alan Parsons Project is among the few bands that I associate with my childhood, and with the period prior to when I started really getting interested in music other than what my parents were listening to. I think of taking baths when I was seven. Most people of my generation - whatever we’re called - hear the name the Alan Parsons Project and immediately think of Austin Powers.
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