My Focus - Live Under The Rainbow (Blue) (SIgned)

€ 29.99
This LP will be released on December 12. If you order this item together with items that are already available, we will hold your order and ship all items together. We recommend that you place a separate order if you wish to receive the released items sooner.
Artist: Jan Akkerman
Format: Vinyl
Cat.nr.: MTR77741
Barcode: 8712725751946
Release Date: 2025-12-12
Description

Jan Akkerman Announces 'My Focus - Live Under The Rainbow'
Out on December 12 via Music Theories Recordings

Pre-order your limited signed copy of the blue vinyl!
Purchase from the Mascot Webstore includes album download. Full album available on December 12.

Jan Akkerman in a live setting is a beautiful thing to behold, and on his new record,  'My Focus - Live Under the Rainbow,' you can absorb his technical mastery and tone, where it was born to live - on stage. The live album will be released on 12 December via Artone/Music Theories Recordings and will be available on blue transparent vinyl, CD, and digitally.

Live music needs to offer you something that you cannot get on a studio recording. It's the sense of freedom and intimacy, wondering how the songs will be played and what the reaction will be. Live concerts give you the tingle where the hair stands up on the back of your neck. "Live audiences give you the tension and responsibility to be creative, for me that's the challenge I like," says the iconic Dutch guitarist. After all of these years, you ponder what keeps Jan going out there, night after night. "It's my love to play for people all around the world," he smiles.

My Focus - Live Under The Rainbow was recorded across Akkerman's 2025 February tour, with his band, Marijn van den Berg (Drums), David de Marez Oyens (Bass) and Coen Molenaar (Keys) as they played Bush Hall (London), The Fire Station (Sunderland), Philharmonic Hall (Liverpool), Oran Mor (Glasgow), The Met (Bury), The Stables (Wavendon), and The Apex (Bury St. Edmunds).

The album journeys through his timeless work with Focus - from the first song released from this release, "Answers Questions - Questions Answers", through to the mega-hits, "Hocus Pocus," "Sylvia", "Focus I" and "Focus II" -  songs that are still close to his heart. "I play these songs because my soul and heart are in there. It's a God given talent I have, which makes me feel proud of myself!" he says.

His incredible solo work stands tall amongst these giants, with "Piétons," taken from 1983's 'Can't Stand Noise,' along with outings from his 2019 solo album, 'Close Beauty,' in "Tommy's Anniversary" and the opening of the recording, "Spiritual Privacy."

Tracklisting:
A1. Answers Questions - Questions Answers
A2. Focus 2 
A3. Focus 1 
A4. Anonymous
A5. Sylvia
B1. Big Sur
B2. Tommy's Anniversary
B3. Piétons
B4. Hocus Pocus

Due to time constraints, 2 tracks are not on the vinyl release. However, they will be included in the album download.
• Spiritual Privacy
• Palace Of The King

Please note that signed copies will be shipped on a first come, first serve basis. There will be no reservations, so please make sure not to include pre-order items released after December 12.