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Visionary (Gordon Giltrap album)

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Released
  
1976 (1976)

Length
  
52:57

Release date
  
1976

Recorded
  
1975 – 1976

Artist
  
Gordon Giltrap

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Studio
  
Sound Associates Studio

Producer
  
Jon Miller, Rod Edwards, Rodger Hand

Visionary (1976)
  
Perilous Journey (1977)

Label
  
The Electric Record Company

Genres
  
Progressive rock, Folk music

Similar
  
Fear of the Dark, Perilous Journey, As It Happens, From Brush and Stone, The peacock party

Visionary is a 1976 studio album by guitarist Gordon Giltrap.

Contents

The music is inspired by the words of poet William Blake.

Track listing

All music by Gordon Giltrap.

Side one

  1. "Awakening"  – 3:01
  2. "Robes and Crowns"  – 1:23
  3. "From The Four Winds"  – 3:30
  4. "Lucifer's Cage"  – 4:07
  5. "Revelation"  – 3:45

Side two

  1. "The Price of Experience"  – 2:22
  2. "The Dance of Albion"  – 1:57
  3. "The Tyger"  – 2:00
  4. "The Ecchoing Green"  – 2:02
  5. "London"  – 3:01
  6. "Night"  – 3:52

bonus tracks for Voiceprint 1999CD

  1. "On Wings of Hope"  – 3:10
  2. "Jerusalem"  – 3:28
  3. "Visionary (original version)"  – 15:19

Personnel and Production

  • Gordon Giltrap - guitars (Fylde 12 string acoustic, John Bailey 6 string acoustic, double neck 6 and 12 string electric)
  • Rod Edwards - keyboards
  • John G. Perry - bass
  • Simon Phillips - drums

    • with

  • R.W.Hudson : trumpet
  • Henry Lowther : trumpet
  • Chris Pyne : trombone
  • Chris Mercer : alto and tenor saxophone
  • Jeff Daly : baritone saxophone
  • Tony Carr : percussion
  • Roger Hand : percussion
  • Shirlie Roden : vocals
  • Strings led by Pat Halling, contract by George Hamer
  • Music by Gordon Giltrap – inspired by the works of William Blake
  • Arranged by Rod Edwards and Roger Hand (except "From the Four Winds" by Joel Lazar)
  • Recorded between October 1975 and June 1976 at Sound Associate Studios
  • Engineered by Gareth Edwards
  • Mastered by Harry Fisher at Decca Studios

    • Songs

    1Awakening3:01
    2Robes and Crowns1:24
    3From the Four Winds3:30

    References

    Visionary (Gordon Giltrap album) Wikipedia
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