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Gryphon (album)

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Released
  
June 1973

Length
  
37:41

Recorded
  
March - April 1973

Label
  
Transatlantic

Genre
  
Progressive rock, progressive folk

Producer
  
Lawrence Aston, Adam Skeaping

Gryphon is the debut album by the progressive rock band Gryphon. It was originally released in 1973 by Transatlantic, catalogue number TRA 262.

Contents

The album was produced by Lawrence Aston and Adam Skeaping and engineered by Adam Skeaping and Nick Glennie-Smith. It was recorded at Riverside Recordings and Livingston Studios. The gryphon cover illustration is by Dan Pearce.

The emphasis on this album is still very much on the acoustic and 'early music' instruments.

Track listing

  1. "Kemp's Jig" (Trad. arr. Gryphon) – 3:07
  2. "Sir Gavin Grimbold" (Trad. arr. Gulland) – 2:45
  3. "Touch and Go" (Harvey, Taylor) – 1:29
  4. "Three Jolly Butchers" (Trad. arr. Taylor) – 3:54
  5. "Pastime with Good Company" (Henry VIII arr. Gryphon) – 1:31
  6. "The Unquiet Grave" (Trad. arr. Gryphon) – 5:40
  7. "Estampie" (Anon. arr. Gryphon) – 4:53
  8. "Crossing the Stiles" (Taylor) – 2:25
  9. "The Astrologer" (Trad. arr. Gryphon) – 3:12
  10. "Tea Wrecks" (Anon. arr. Gryphon) – 1:06
  11. "Juniper Suite" (Gryphon) – 4:49
  12. "The Devil and the Farmer's Wife" (Trad. arr. Gryphon) – 1:55

Personnel

  • Brian Gulland - bassoon, crumhorns, recorders, keyboards, vocals
  • Richard Harvey - recorders, crumhorns, keyboards, guitar, mandolin
  • Dave Oberlé - drums, percussion, vocals
  • Graeme Taylor - guitars, keyboards, recorder, vocals

    • References

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