Ra (album)

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Ra
Studio album by Utopia
Released January, 1977
Recorded at Bearsville Sound Studio, Utopia Sound and Turtle Creek Barn
Genre Rock
Length 53:04
Label Bearsville Records
Producer Todd Rundgren
Utopia chronology
Another Live
(1975)		 Ra
(1977)		 Oops! Wrong Planet
(1977)

Ra is the first studio album by Utopia, released on Bearsville Records in 1977.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Side one

  1. Overture: Mountaintop and Sunrise/Communion With the Sun (7:15)
  2. Magic Dragon Theatre (3:28)
  3. Jealousy (4:43)
  4. Eternal Love (4:51)
  5. Sunburst Finish (7:38)
  6. Magic Elf Music (6:23)

[edit] Side two

  1. Hiroshima (7:16)
  2. Singring and the Glass Guitar (An Electrified Fairytale) (18:24)

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Production

  • Producer: Todd Rundgren for Alchemedia Productions, Inc.
  • Engineer: John Holbrook
  • Assistant Engineer: Tom Mark
  • Musical arrangements by Utopia

[edit] Songwriting Credits

  • Overture: Mountaintop and Sunrise by Bernard Herrmann
  • Communion With the Sun by Rundgren
  • Magic Dragon Theatre by Rundgren/Sulton
  • Jealousy by Rundgren/Wilcox
  • Eternal Love by Powell/Sulton
  • Sunburst Finish by Powell/Rundgren
  • Hiroshima by Powell/Rundgren
  • Singring and the Glass Guitar by Powell/Rundgren/Sulton/Wilcox