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Ceremony (Spooky Tooth and Pierre Henry album)

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Released
  
December 1969

Ceremony (1969)
  
The Last Puff (1970)

Producer
  
Pierre Henry

Length
  
45:13

Release date
  
December 1969

Label
  
A&M Records

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Artists
  
Spooky Tooth, Pierre Henry

Genres
  
Rock music, Progressive rock

Similar
  
Spooky Tooth albums, Rock music albums

Spooky tooth ceremony full album


Ceremony is a 1969 album by progressive UK rock band Spooky Tooth in collaboration with French electronic and "found-object" composer Pierre Henry. The album takes the form of a church service. A Pierre Henry-free version of the closing track "Hosanna" with different lyrics appears on 2015 Universal release 'The Island Years 1967-1974' under the title "When I Get Home." The release also includes an alternate take of "Have Mercy" (also without Henry) and a session outtake titled "Shine a Light on Me."

Contents

The album is considered by singer and songwriter Gary Wright to have ended the band's career. "Then we did a project that wasn't our album. It was with this French electronic music composer named Pierre Henry. We just told the label, 'You know this is his album, not our album. We'll play on it just like musicians.' And then when the album was finished, they said, 'Oh no no — it's great. We're gonna release this as your next album.' We said, 'You can't do that. It doesn't have anything to do with the direction of Spooky Two and it will ruin our career.' And that's exactly what happened."[1]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Pierre Henry and Gary Wright

  1. "Have Mercy" – 7:51
  2. "Jubilation" – 8:25
  3. "Confession" – 6:53
  4. "Prayer" – 10:50
  5. "Offering" – 3:26
  6. "Hosanna" – 7:33

(Note: on some European CD reissues, the song order has been changed to "Confession", "Have Mercy", "Credo" (previously titled "Jubilation"), "Offering", "Hosanna", "Prayer". "Confession" includes approximately ten seconds of electronic effects at the beginning edited out of prior releases.)

Personnel

  • Pierre Henry – synthesizer, electronics
  • Mike Harrison – vocals, keyboards
  • Gary Wright – vocals, electronic organ, keyboards
  • Luther Grosvenor – guitars
  • Andy Leigh – bass, guitar
  • Mike Kellie – drums and percussion
  • Production

  • Produced by Pierre Henry and Spooky Tooth
  • Recorded and engineered by Andy Johns
  • Songs

    1Have Mercy7:56
    2Jubilation8:27
    3Confession6:48

    References

    Ceremony (Spooky Tooth and Pierre Henry album) Wikipedia