| Masque | ||||
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:Kansas_-_Masque.jpg) Cover art reproduces Water, a painting by Italian artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo | ||||
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| Released | September 1975 | |||
| Recorded | 1975 | |||
| Studio | Studio in the Country, Bogalusa, Louisiana | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock | |||
| Length | 40:44 | |||
| Label | Kirshner (US) Epic (rest of the world) | |||
| Producer | Jeff Glixman | |||
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Masque is the third studio album by American progressive rock band Kansas. The album was released in September 1975, remastered for CD in 2001, and again remastered and reissued on vinyl in 2014. The opening track, "It Takes a Woman's Love (To Make a Man)", was remixed for release as a single, including additional guest vocals and segments far different from the album version, but was not popular. The album includes both songs in the epic progressive rock style which Kansas favored and songs which took the heartland rock elements of their sound in a pop-oriented direction, foreshadowing their next album Leftoverture, on which those two approaches were more integrated.
Masque peaked at #70 on the Billboard album chart, and approximately 250,000 units were sold within months.[2] Like all three of Kansas' first three album releases, Masque attracted new commercial interest due to the platinum success of the band's fourth and fifth studio albums (Leftoverture and Point of Know Return), being certified Gold for sales of 500,000 units in December 1977.[3]
- ^ Strong, Martin Charles (1995). The Great Rock Discography. p. 449. ISBN 9780862415419.
- ^ Fort Lauderdale News November 18, 1979 "Cosmic Kansas Still Close to the Corn" by Jon Pareles p.15-G
- ^ Cashbox January 14, 1978 "Success of Kansas Traced to Constant Touring, FM Airplay" by Mark Mehler p.12