Masque (Kansas album) explained

Masque
Type:studio
Artist:Kansas
Cover:Kansas - Masque.jpg
Caption:Cover art reproduces Water, a painting by Italian artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo
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
Prev Title:Song for America
Prev Year:1975
Next Title:Leftoverture
Next Year:1976

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 but was not popular, including additional guest vocals and segments far different from the album version.

Masque peaked at #70 on the Billboard album chart, and approximately 250,000 units were sold within months.[1] Each of Kansas's first three album releases had new commercial interest with certified Gold sales of 500,000 units (Masque in December 1977) due to the platinum success of the fourth and fifth studio albums: Leftoverture (1976) and Point of Know Return (1977).[2]

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. Fort Lauderdale News November 18, 1979 "Cosmic Kansas Still Close to the Corn" by Jon Pareles p.15-G
  2. Cashbox January 14, 1978 "Success of Kansas Traced to Constant Touring, FM Airplay" by Mark Mehler p.12