Phenomena

Sobre Phenomena

Phenomena é o álbum de estreia de 1985 do projeto de rock inglês Phenomena. Criado pelo produtor e compositor Tom Galley, Phenomena é um álbum conceitual frouxo sobre vários fenômenos sobrenaturais e paranormais. Um filme de ficção científica de terror baseado no álbum foi planejado, mas nunca avançou além da conclusão de um roteiro e várias peças de arte conceitual.

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Phenomena é o álbum de estreia homônimo de 1985 do projeto de rock inglês Phenomena. Criado pelo produtor e compositor Tom Galley, Phenomena é um álbum conceitual frouxo sobre vários fenômenos sobrenaturais e paranormais. Um filme de ficção científica de terror baseado no álbum (para não ser confundido com o filme de Dario Argento de mesmo nome) foi planejado, mas nunca avançou além da conclusão de um roteiro e várias peças de arte conceitual. Um álbum de acompanhamento, Phenomena II: Dream Runner, foi lançado em 1987. Track listing Personnel Main musicians Glenn Hughes - lead vocals (1-8), bass guitar (2, 6) Mel Galley - guitars (2-4, 6–8), backing vocals (6) John Thomas - guitars (1-3, 5–8) Neil Murray - bass guitar (1, 3–5, 7–8) Cozy Powell - drums (1, 3–5, 7–8) Ted McKenna - drums (2, 6) Richard Bailey - keyboards (1, 3–5, 7–9) Robin Smith - keyboards (2) Don Airey - keyboards (6)

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Notable quotes

“This kid may be the key not just to all human potential, but to all spiritual unexplained paranormal phenomena. The key to everything in The X-Files.”
— Chris Carter, in The X-Files episode "The End" [5.20] (17 May 1998)
“But mainly I learned, in approaching the measurement of new phenomena, not just to consider using existing apparatus but to allow the mind to wander freely and invent new ways of doing the job.”
— Val Logsdon Fitch, in his Nobel Prize Autobiography (1980), in Les Prix Nobel, published in The Nobel Prizes (1981), edited by Wilhelm Odelberg
“The number of different optical phenomena has become in our time so great that caution must be taken so as to avoid being deceived, and also to refer the phenomena to the simple laws.”
— Joseph von Fraunhofer, in The Wave Theory, Light and Spectra. Prismatic and Diffraction Spectra. Memoirs by Joseph Von Fraunhofer (1981), p. 14
“There is but one indefectibly certain truth, and that is the truth that pyrrhonistic scepticism itself leaves standing, — the truth that the present phenomenon of consciousness exists.”
— William James, in The Will to Believe (1897)
“As discontinuity marched into the world of phenomena through one door, causality walked out through another.”
— James Jeans, in Physics and Philosophy (1942)
“The laws of thermodynamics may be regarded as particular cases of more general laws, applicable to all such states of matter as constitute Energy, or the capacity to perform work, which more general laws form the basis of the science of energetics, — a science comprehending, as special branches, the theories of motion, heat, light, electricity, and all other physical phenomena.”
— William John Macquorn Rankine, in A Manual of the Steam Engine and other Prime Movers (1859), p. 31

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