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| Studio album by Curved Air | |||||
| Released | April 1972 | ||||
| Recorded | Advision Studios | ||||
| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Length | 39:04 | ||||
| Producer | Curved Air Colin Caldwell |
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Phantasmagoria is a 1972 album by Curved Air. It reached No. 20 in the UK Charts and is notable for its imaginative, and early, use of the VCS3 synthesizer to process Sonja Kristina's voice on the eerily-themed second side. Unavailable for many years, the album was reissued on CD in April 2007.
Contents |
Track listing
Side One
- "Marie Antoinette" (Darryl Way, Sonja Kristina Linwood) (6:20)
- "Melinda (More or Less)" (Linwood) (3:25)
- "Not Quite the Same" (Way, Linwood) (3:44)
- "Cheetah" (Way) (3:33)
- "Ultra-Vivaldi" (Way, Francis Monkman) (2:22)
Side Two
- "Phantasmagoria" (Monkman) (3:15)
- "Whose Shoulder Are You Looking Over Anyway?"[1](Monkman) (3:24)
- "Over and Above" (Monkman) (8:36)
- "Once a Ghost, Always a Ghost" (Monkman, Linwood) (4:25)
Personnel
- Sonja Kristina – vocals, acoustic guitar
- Francis Monkman – guitars, keyboards, tubular bells, gong, percussion
- Florian Pilkington-Miksa – drums, percussion
- Darryl Way – violin, keyboards, vocals, tubular bells, mellotron on "Marie Antoinette")
- Mike Wedgwood – bass, acoustic guitar, vocals
Guest Musicians
- Annie Stewart – flute on "Melinda (More or Less)"
- Crispian Steele-Perkins – trumpet
- Paul Cosh – trumpet
- Jim Watson – trumpet
- George Parnaby – trumpet
- Chris Pyne – trombone
- Alan Gout – trombone
- David Purser – trombone
- Steve Saunders – trombone
- Frank Ricotti – xylophone, vibes
- Mal Linwood-Ross – percussion
- Colin Caldwell – percussion
- Jean Akers – percussion
and featuring
- Doris the Cheetah -- Grand Finale on Cheetah
References
- ^ The poem read by Linwood and processed by VCS3 is from Lewis Carroll's "Phantasmagoria and Other poems":
CANTO IV--Hys Nouryture "Oh, when I was a little Ghost, A merry time had we! Each seated on his favourite post, We chumped and chawed the buttered toast They gave us for our tea."
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