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Released
  
December 1970

If 2 (1970)
  
If 3 (1971)

Release date
  
1970

Label
  
Capitol Records

Recorded
  
The Hit Factory, NY

Artist
  
If

Producer
  
Lew Futterman

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Genres
  
Jazz fusion, Progressive rock

Similar
  
If 3, If 4, Double Diamond, Forgotten Roads: The Best of If, Tea Break Over–Back on Your

If 2 is the second release by the English Jazz rock band If. It was released as a vinyl LP in 1970 on the Island Records label in the UK and Capitol Records in the US.

Contents

The album features the early use of Innovex Reed Sound Modulators for the saxophones. The single from the album was "Your City Is Falling".

It was re-issued as a CD first in 1996 by an obscure label (OSA), then in 1997 by Island and finally in 2006 on Repertoire Records with liner notes by UK music critic Chris Welch.

Side one

  1. "Your City Is Falling" (Dave Quincy) – 5:04
  2. "Sunday Sad" (Dick Morrissey) – 8:18
  3. "Tarmac T. Pirate and the Lonesome Nymphomaniac" (John Mealing, Trevor Preston) – 5:12

Side two

  1. "I Couldn't Write and Tell You" (Dave Quincy) – 8:23
  2. "Shadows and Echoes" (Margaret Busby, Lionel Grigson) – 4:24
  3. "Song for Elsa, Three Days Before Her 25th Birthday" (J. W. Hodkinson) – 5:11

Credits

  • J. W. Hodkinson – lead vocals, percussion
  • Dick Morrissey – tenor and soprano saxophone, flute
  • Dave Quincy – tenor and alto saxophones, flute
  • Terry Smith – guitar
  • John Mealing – organ, backing vocals, electric piano
  • Jim Richardson – bass
  • Dennis Elliott – drums

    • Production

  • engineer – Frank Owen, Jon Child
  • producer – Lew Futterman

    • Songs

    1Your City Is Falling5:06
    2Sunday Sad8:23
    3Tarmac T Pirate and the Lonesome Nymphomaniac4:34

    References

    If 2 Wikipedia
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