Hatfield and the North (album)
| Hatfield and the North | ||||
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| Released | February 1974 | |||
| Recorded | October 1973 – January 1974 | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock, Canterbury scene | |||
| Length | 46:10 | |||
| Label | Virgin | |||
| Producer | Hatfield and the North Tom Newman | |||
| Hatfield and the North chronology | ||||
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| AllMusic |   [1] |
Hatfield and the North is the first album by the English Canterbury scene rock band Hatfield and the North, released in February 1974.
In the Q & Mojo Classic Special Edition Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock, the album came #34 in its list of "40 Cosmic Rock Albums".[2]
Album cover
[edit]The cover of the original vinyl release was designed by Laurie Lewis. The front and back outer cover is a panoramic photograph of Reykjavík, with the sky on the right merged with a transparency of a 15th-16th century fresco in Orvieto Cathedral by Luca Signorelli, "The Damned". The inside gatefold is a collage that includes photographs of the personnel and guests involved in the music, the cast of the TV show Bonanza, together with a cropped photograph by Jacques Henri Lartigue of a man throwing a dog.[3]
Track listing
[edit]| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The Stubbs Effect" | Pip Pyle | 0:22 |
| 2. | "Big Jobs (Poo Poo Extract)" | Richard Sinclair, Pyle | 0:36 |
| 3. | "Going Up To People and Tinkling" | Dave Stewart | 2:25 |
| 4. | "Calyx" | Phil Miller | 2:45 |
| 5. | "Son of 'There's No Place Like Homerton'" | Stewart | 10:10 |
| 6. | "Aigrette" | Miller | 1:37 |
| 7. | "Rifferama" | Sinclair; arr. Hatfield and the North | 2:56 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8. | "Fol de Rol" | Sinclair, Robert Wyatt | 3:07 |
| 9. | "Shaving Is Boring" | Pyle | 8:45 |
| 10. | "Licks for the Ladies" | Sinclair, Pyle | 2:37 |
| 11. | "Bossa Nochance" | Sinclair | 0:40 |
| 12. | "Big Jobs No. 2 (By Poo and the Wee Wees)" | Sinclair, Pyle | 2:14 |
| 13. | "Lobster in Cleavage Probe" | Stewart | 3:57 |
| 14. | "Gigantic Land Crabs in Earth Takeover Bid" | Stewart | 3:21 |
| 15. | "The Other Stubbs Effect" | Pyle | 0:38 |
The 1987 CD re-release of the album added two bonus tracks, the A- and B-sides of a 1974 single, previously available on the 1980 compilation Afters:
- "Let's Eat (Real Soon)" (Sinclair, Pyle) – 3:16
- "Fitter Stoke Has a Bath" (Pyle) – 4:35
The 2009 Esoteric Recordings reissue (ECLEC2139) also included the above, along with a further bonus track:
- "Your Majesty Is Like a Cream Donut Incorporating Oh What a Lonely Lifetime" – 6:08
Taken from the Virgin Records Sampler (VD 2502) from January 1975.
Personnel
[edit]- Hatfield and the North
- Phil Miller – electric guitar (2–14), acoustic guitars (6)
- Dave Stewart – Fender Rhodes electric piano (1–8, 10–15), Hammond organ (3–5, 7–9, 12–14), Hohner Pianet (1, 5, 7, 9, 13–15), piano (2–5, 8, 9), tone generator (5, 7–9, 12), Minimoog (9)
- Richard Sinclair – bass guitar (2–14), vocals (2, 4, 6, 8, 10–12)
- Pip Pyle – drums (2–9, 11–14), percussion (6, 7, 9), sound effects (7–9, 11)
- Guest musicians
- Robert Wyatt – vocals (4, 12)
- Barbara Gaskin – vocals (5, 13)
- Amanda Parsons – vocals (5, 13)
- Ann Rosenthal – vocals (5, 13)
- Geoff Leigh – tenor saxophone (5), flute (5, 13)
- Didier Malherbe – tenor saxophone (7) (uncredited)
- Jeremy Baines – pixiephone (5), flute (13)
- Sam Ellidge – voice (7)
- Cyrille Ayers – vocals (8)
References
[edit]- ^ AllMusic review by Dave Thompson
- ^ Q Classic: Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock, 2005.
- ^ calyx2016. "A closer look at the first Hatfield and the North album's cover". canterburyscene.wordpress.com. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
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