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Resolving Contradictions

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Released
  
1978

Artist
  
Andy Mackay

Producer
  
Andy Mackay

Genre
  
Rock music

Recorded
  
March–July 1978

Release date
  
1978

Label
  
Bronze Records

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Studio
  
Basing Street Studios, London; Sawmills Recording Studios, Cornwall

Similar
  
Andy Mackay albums, Rock music albums

Resolving Contradictions is an album by British musician Andy Mackay, released on Bronze Records in 1978.

Contents

Andy Mackay was once Roxy Music's saxophonist, and some members of the group happen to play on this record. This opus is a "concept album" with references to the Chinese culture. The cover, designed by Jane Mackay, figures a sort of post-Cultural Revolution scene. And the sound of most of the numbers relates to what a western world audience could "know" about Chinese music.

Track listing

All songs are by Andy Mackay; except "Battersea Rise" by Ray Russell and Andy Mackay

  1. "Iron Blossom"
  2. "Trumpets on the Mountains/Off to Work/'Unreal City'"
  3. "The Loyang Tractor Factory"
  4. "Rivers"
  5. "Battersea Rise"
  6. "Skill and Sweat"
  7. "The Ortolan Bunting (A Sparrow's Fall)"
  8. "The Inexorable Sequence"
  9. "A Song of Friendship (The Renmin Hotel)"
  10. "Alloy Blossom (Trumpets in the Suburbs)"
  11. "Green and Gold"

Personnel

  • Andy Mackay - saxophone, oboe, cor Anglais, piano, synthesizer
  • Ray Russell - guitar, string and brass arrangements
  • Mo Foster - bass
  • Tony Stevens - bass
  • Paul Thompson - drums, timpani, gong
  • Peter van Hooke - drums
  • Phil Manzanera - guitar solo on "The Inexorable Sequence"
  • Tim Wheater - Chinese reed flute
  • Chris Parren - keyboards
  • Gavyn Wright - violin solo
  • Michael Laird - trumpet
    • Technical
  • Phill Brown - assistant producer, engineer
  • Jane Mackay - assistant producer, cover
  • Eric Scott - cover painting

    • References

    Resolving Contradictions Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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