Artist: RUSH
Album: HEMISPHERES REMASTERED (CD)

Release date: 1978/ 1997
EAN/UPS: 0731453462922
Media type: CD

Hemispheres is the sixth studio album by the Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1978 (see 1978 in music). The album was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales.

This album continues Rush's trend of using the fantasy and science fiction lyrics written by Neil Peart. Similar to their 1976 release, 2112, Hemispheres contains a single, epic song broken into chapters as the first half of the album (Cygnus X-1, Book II: Hemispheres) while the second half contains two more conventionally-executed tracks ("Circumstances", "The Trees"), then is rounded out by the nine-and-a-half-minute instrumental, "La Villa Strangiato".

A remaster was issued in 1997.

The tray has a picture of star with man painting with THE RUSH REMASTERS printed in all caps just to the left. All remasters from Rush through to Permanent Waves are like this. This is just like the cover art of Retrospective I.
The remastered CD has all of the original album cover art including the back cover and poster of the band which was missing on the original CD issue.

TRACKLIST:

"Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres" – 18:05
I: "Prelude" – 0:00
II: "Apollo Bringer of Wisdom" – 4:29
III: "Dionysus Bringer of Love" – 7:00
IV: "Armageddon The Battle of Heart and Mind" – 9:05
V: "Cygnus Bringer of Balance" – 12:00
VI: "The Sphere A Kind of Dream" – 17:02
"Circumstances" – 3:40
"The Trees" – 4:42
"La Villa Strangiato (An Exercise in Self-Indulgence)" – 9:34 ( – Start Time)
I: "Buenos Nochas, Mein Froinds!" – 0:00
II: "To sleep, perchance to dream. .." – 0:27
III: "Strangiato theme" – 2:00
IV: "A Lerxst in Wonderland" – 3:16
V: "Monsters!" – 5:49
VI: "The Ghost of the Aragon" – 6:10
VII: "Danforth and Pape" – 6:45
VIII: "The Waltz of the Shreves" – 7:26
IX: "Never turn your back on a Monster!" – 7:52
X: "Monsters! (Reprise)" – 8:03
XI: "Strangiato theme (Reprise)" – 8:17
XII: "A Farewell to Things" – 9:20

All songs written by Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee, and Neil Peart.

LINE-UP:

Geddy Lee - bass guitars, vocals, Oberheim Polyphonic, Mini-Moog Synthesizers
Alex Lifeson - electric, acoustic and classical guitars, Roland Guitar Synthesizers
Neil Peart - drums, orchestra bells, bell-tree, tympani, gong, cowbells, temple blocks, wind chimes, crotales


Pat Moran - recording engineer for music and overdubs
Declan O'Doherty - recording engineer for vocals
Terry Brown - mixing engineer
Hugh Syme - art direction and graphics
Bob King - art direction
Yosh Inouye - cover photography
Fin Costello - band and poster photograph
Ray Staff - mastering on original album
Bob Ludwig - remastering