Jan Akkerman – My Focus – Live Under The Rainbow
Jan Akkerman – My Focus – Live Under The Rainbow
Format: CD – Vinyl LP – Digital
Label: Mascot Label Group – Artone/Music Theories Recordings
Release: 2025
Release date: December 12, 2025
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
‘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.”
Website: https://www.janakkerman.com/
Tracks:
01. Spiritual Privacy
02. Answers Questions – Questions Answers
03. Focus 2
04. Focus 1
05. Palace Of The King
06. Anonymous
07. Big Sur
08. Tommy’s Anniversary
09. Piétons
10. Hocus Pocus
11. Sylvia