Numbers (Cat Stevens album)

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Numbers
A Pythagorean Theory Tale
Numbers  A Pythagorean Theory Tale cover
Studio album by Cat Stevens
Released 1975
Genre Rock
Length 33:38
Label A&M
Producer(s) Cat Stevens
Professional reviews

All Music Guide 2/5 stars link

Cat Stevens chronology
Saturnight
(1974)
Numbers
(1975)
Izitso
(1977)


Numbers is an album by singer/songwriter Cat Stevens. Subtitled "A Pythagorean Theory Tale", it is a concept album based on a fictional planet called Polygor in a far-off galaxy, and the "Polygons" who inhabited its palace. The album includes a booklet with excerpts from the book of the same name, written by Chris Bryant and Allan Scott, and contains pen-and-ink illustrations by Stevens.

The album was released along with the albums Izitso and Back to Earth in a box set called "Three" from the Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab label. It is now out of print.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All tracks written by Cat Stevens.

  1. "Whistlestar" – 3:47
  2. "Novim's Nightmare" – 3:52
  3. "Majik of Majiks" – 4:31
  4. "Drywood" – 4:56
  5. "Banapple Gas" – 3:09
  6. "Land o' Free Love & Goodbye" – 2:48
  7. "Jzero" – 3:47
  8. "Home" – 4:13
  9. "Monad's Anthem" – 2:16

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Additional personnel

  • Simon Nicol – guitar
  • Chico Batera – percussion
  • Gordie Fleming – accordion
  • David Sanbornsaxophone
  • Magic Children of Ottawa – vocals
  • Barbara Massey – vocals
  • Carl Hall – vocals
  • Tasha Thomas – vocals
  • Art Garfunkel – vocals
  • Lewis Furey – vocals
  • Melba Joyce – vocals
  • Carmen Twillie – vocals
  • Brenda Russell – vocals
  • Vennette Gloud – vocals
  • Suzanne Lynch – vocals
  • Anna Peacock – vocals
  • Vincent Beck – vocals

[edit] Video

Banapple Gas, live concert with video clips

Banapple Gas, 1976 filmstrip with foreign subtitles


Cat Stevens
Discography
Studio albums: Matthew and Son | New Masters | Mona Bone Jakon | Tea for the Tillerman | Teaser and the Firecat | Catch Bull at Four | Foreigner | Buddha and the Chocolate Box | Saturnight (Live in Tokyo) | Numbers | Izitso | Numbers | Footsteps in the Dark: Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 | Majikat
Yusuf Islam: The Life of the Last Prophet | Prayers of the Last Prophet | A is for Allah | I Look I See | Indian Ocean (Yusuf Islam) | Footsteps In The Light | An Other Cup
Compilations: Greatest Hits | The Very Best of Cat Stevens | Cat Stevens Box Set | Gold
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