Ring of Changes

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Length 48:10 Release date 16 May 1983 Label Polydor Records		Artist Barclay James Harvest Producer Pip Williams

Released May 16, 1983 (original version) June 25, 2012 (remastered CD) Recorded Far Studios, Frankfurt, January - March, 1983 Ring of Changes (1983) Victims of Circumstance (1984) Genres Progressive rock, Pop rock, Folk rock Barclay James Harvest albums Victims Of Circumstance, Turn of the Tide, Time Honoured Ghosts, Eyes of the Universe, Everyone Is Everybod

Ring of Changes is the twelfth studio album by British rock band Barclay James Harvest, released in 1983.

Barclay james harvest fifties child

Barclay James Harvest

Les Holroyd – bass, keyboards, guitars, vocals

John Lees – guitars, vocals

Mel Pritchard – drums, percussion

Guest musicians

"Special Guest Musician" on Ring of Changes was Bias Boshell, founder member of English folk band Trees, working with Barclay James Harvest for the first time. The orchestration on "Fifties Child" and "Paraiso Dos Cavalos" was arranged by Pip Williams and performed by the New World Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by David Katz. Kevin McAlea played keyboards on "Midnight Drug" and Henry Morris provided "occasional backing vocals".

Production

Produced by Pip Williams

Engineered by Gregg Jackman

Recorded digitally at Far Studios, Frankfurt and mixed at RAK Studios, London

Assistant engineer – Chris Dickie

Mastered at Strawberry Mastering by Melvyn Abrahams

Concept and design – Alwyn Clayden & David Walker

Art direction and supervision – Alwyn Clayden

Photography – Tony Latham, Alwyn Clayden & Bob Norris

Creative assistance and artwork – Main Titles Associates

Retouching – Wade Wood

Songs

1Fifties Child4:18
2Looking From the Outside5:18
3Teenage Heart4:20

References

Ring of Changes Wikipedia

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