Gryphon (album)

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Gryphon
Gryphon cover
Studio album by Gryphon
Released 1973
Genre Progressive folk, early music
Label Transatlantic Records
Producer Lawrence Aston, Adam Skeaping
Gryphon chronology
Gryphon
(1973)		 Midnight Mushrumps
(1974)

Gryphon is the debut album by the progressive folk band Gryphon. It was originally released in 1973 by Transatlantic, catalogue number TRA 262.

The album was produced by Lawrence Aston and Adam Skeaping and engineered by Adam Skeaping and Nick Glennie-Smith. It was recorded at Riverside Recordings and Livingston Studios. The gryphon cover illustration is by Dan Pearce.

This is the first Gryphon album, with the emphasis still very much on the acoustic and 'early music' instruments.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Kemp's Jig" (Trad. arr. Gryphon) - 3:07
  2. "Sir Gavin Grimbold" (Trad. arr. Gulland) - 2:45
  3. "Touch And Go" (Harvey/Taylor) - 1:29
  4. "Three Jolly Butchers" (Trad. arr. Taylor) - 3:54
  5. "Pastime With Good Company" (Henry VIII arr. Gryphon) - 1:31
  6. "The Unquiet Grave" (Trad. arr. Gryphon) - 5:40
  7. "Estampie" (Anon. arr. Gryphon) - 4:53
  8. "Crossing The Stiles" (Taylor) - 2:25
  9. "The Astrologer" (Trad. arr. Gryphon) - 3:12
  10. "Tea Wrecks" (Anon. arr. Gryphon) - 1:06
  11. "Juniper Suite" (Gryphon) - 4:49
  12. "The Devil And The Farmer's Wife" (Trad. arr. Gryphon) - 1:55

[edit] Personnel

  • Brian Gulland - bassoon, crumhorns, recorders, keyboards, vocals
  • Richard Harvey - recorders, crumhorns, keyboards, guitar, mandolin
  • Dave OberlĂ© - drums, percussion, vocals
  • Graeme Taylor - guitars, keyboards, recorder, vocals