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Neil Ardley - Harmony Of The Spheres album

Neil Ardley - Harmony Of The Spheres album

  • Performer: Neil Ardley
  • Genre: Jazz / Rock
  • Title: Harmony Of The Spheres
  • Released: 1979
  • Style: Fusion, Space Rock, Experimental
  • Country: Spain
  • MP3 version size: 1166 mb
  • FLAC version size: 1779 mb
  • Other: ASF DTS RA DMF AHX MP2 APE
  • Rating: 4.4
  • Votes: 823

Description

01 Upstarts All 02 Leap in the Dark 03 Glittering Circles 04 Fair Mirage 05 Soft Stillness and the Night 06 Headstrong, Headlong 07 Towards Tranquilty.

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Harmony of the Spheres is a music studio album recording by NEIL ARDLEY (Jazz ive Rock) released in 1979 on cd, lp, vinyl and/or cassette.

Complete your Neil Ardley collection. referencing Harmony Of The Spheres, LP, Album, TXS-R 133. Love this record or CD! Neil passed away 2/23/2004. The record includes the infamous John Martyn play electric guitar on several tracks. Neil Ardley was a legend in Britain. He never really took hold musically in the United States, though his two albums were released here. I found them both in Ann Arbor, MI. Esoteric Recordings has re-released Harmony of the Spheres in 2009. There was also a Mini LP style CD release from Japan in 2005.

Harmony of the Spheres is a third stream music album recording by NEIL ARDLEY released in 1979 on CD, LP/Vinyl and/or cassette. Generally regarded as well-past Ardley’s finest hour, HotS is also at the tail end of Neil’s better period, as can be expected with the turn of the decade around the bend.

Harmony Of The Spheres. .has been added to your Cart. After years of marrying Classical composition with inspired Jazz improvisation, this director of the New Jazz Orchestra introduced shimmering synths and surreal sonic odysseys on HARMONY OF THE SPHERES. You'll hear John Martyn on guitar as you drift through 'Glittering Circles', 'Fair Mirage', 'Soft Stillness And the Night', and more.

Harmony of the Spheres was composer Neil Ardley's final album for a major label. Released by Decca in the . This is the record many of Ardley's most ardent (no pun intended) fans and jazz purists have dismissed out of hand. Simply put, both groups are wrong. Given that this is a conceptual recording of the title, derived from the complex notions of the ancient Greeks, Ardley could find no acoustic instruments that could actually reproduce the sounds required

Harmony Of The Spheres. Start your music shopping from All About Jazz and you'll support us in the process. Learn how. About Neil Ardley. Kaleidoscope of Rainbows by AAJ Italy Staff. I love jazz because of the freedom of expression within the genre allows for immediate exploration of musical ideas and concepts, the ability to instantly convert thought into sound, the dichotomy of structure within a free flowing medium all nurture my creative impulses.

Tracklist

A1 Upstarts All
A2 Leap In The Dark
A3 Glittering Circles
A4 Fair Mirage
B1 Soft Stillness And The Night
B2 Headstrong, Headlong
B3 Towards Tranqility

Companies, etc.

  • Record Company – The Decca Record Company Limited
  • Printed By – Robert Stace
  • Recorded At – Morgan Studios
  • Published By – Misty River Music
  • Mastered At – Utopia Studios
  • Pressed By – Decca Record Co. Ltd., Pressing Plant, UK.

Credits

  • Art Direction – Storm Thorgerson
  • Artwork – Richard Manning
  • Bass Guitar – Bill Kristian
  • Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone – Tony Coe
  • Drums, Percussion – Richard Burgess*
  • Electric Piano, Piano [Acoustic], Synthesizer [Minimoog] – Geoff Castle
  • Engineer – Martin Levan
  • Engineer [Assistant] – Mark Freegard
  • Flute, Soprano Saxophone – Barbara Thompson
  • Percussion – Trevor Tomkins
  • Photography By – Alex Henderson
  • Piano – Geoff Castle
  • Producer – Martin Levan, Neil Ardley
  • Rhythm Guitar [Electric], Lead Guitar [Electric] – John Martyn
  • Synthesizer [Arp Odyssey, Omni] – Neil Ardley
  • Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Ian Carr
  • Voice [Voices] – Norma Winstone, Pepi Lemer
  • Written-By – Neil Ardley

Notes

Recorded at Morgan Studios, London, from July to September 1978.

℗ © 1979, The Decca Record Company Limited, London

John Martyn appears courtesy of Island Records; Barbara Thompson by courtesy of MCA Records; Ian Carr by courtesy of Capitol Records and Richard Burgess by courtesy of Event Horizon Records.

Special thanks to Bruce May for great encouragement, and to Gordon Clark of the Abbotsholme Arts Society, who first commissioned the music in association with Bass Charrington.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Matrix / Runout (Label A): ZAL 16086
  • Matrix / Runout (Label B): ZAL 16087
  • Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, stamped): ZAL-16086.P-1 C 1 Ʊ [lyre symbol]
  • Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, stamped): ZAL-16087.P-1G 2 D

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
TXS-3153 Neil Ardley Harmony Of The Spheres (Armonía De Las Esferas) ‎(LP, Album, Promo) Decca TXS-3153 Spain 1979
POCJ-2838 Neil Ardley Harmony Of The Spheres ‎(CD, Album, RE) Decca POCJ-2838 Japan 2000
GXH-2021 Neil Ardley Harmony Of The Spheres ‎(LP, Album, RE) London Records GXH-2021 Japan 1980
6.23985 AS Neil Ardley Harmony Of The Spheres ‎(LP, Album) Decca 6.23985 AS Germany 1979
ECLEC 2096 Neil Ardley Harmony Of The Spheres ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM) Esoteric Recordings ECLEC 2096 UK 2008

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Love this record or CD! Neil passed away 2/23/2004. The record includes the infamous John Martyn play electric guitar on several tracks. Neil Ardley was a legend in Britain. He never really took hold musically in the United States, though his two albums were released here. I found them both in Ann Arbor, MI.Esoteric Recordings has re-released Harmony of the Spheres in 2009. There was also a Mini LP style CD release from Japan in 2005