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Description:
Personnel: Cat Stevens (acoustic & electric guitar, 12-string guitar, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, ARP synthesizer); Magic Children of Ottawa, Barbara Massey, Carl Hall, Tasha Thomas, Art Garfunkel, Lewis Furey, Melba Joyce, Carmen Twille, Brenda Russell, Vennette Gloud, Suzanne Lynch, Anna Peacock, Vincent Beck (vocals); Alun Davies (vocals, guitar, 12-string); Gerry Conway (vocals, drums); Simon Nicol (guitar,12-string guitar,); Gordie Fleming (accordion); David Sanborn (alto saxophone); Jean Roussel (piano, Wurlitzer piano, harpsichord, Hammond B-3 organ, organ, string synthesizer, vibraphone); Bruce Lynch (bass); Chico Batera (congas, percussion, chimes).
Producer: Cat Stevens.
Reissue producer: Bill Levenson.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Subtitled "A Pythagorean Theory Tale," Stevens' follow-up to the relatively conventional BUDDHA AND THE CHOCOLATE BOX is a semi-concept album with a sort of science fiction theme. The songs are set on the faraway planet Polygor, which "existed to give numbers to the universe," and they are sung from the point of prominent inhabitants of the planet, including the wise and deep-thinking old Novim ("Novim's Nightmare") and cranky emperor Monad ("Monad's Anthem"). The story line isn't easy to follow, but the songs themselves are in Steven's signature folkie pop mode, and the one non-story song, "Banapple Gas" (a distant relative of Donovan's "Mellow Yellow") is as catchy as anything in his catalogue.
Details:
Track Listing:
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Whistlestar
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| 2. |
Novin's Nightmare
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| 3. |
Majik of Majiks
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| 4. |
Drywood
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| 5. |
Banapple Gas
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| 6. |
Land O'Free Love & Goodbye
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| 7. |
Jzero
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| 8. |
Home
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| 9. |
Monad's Anthem
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