Skan (album)

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Skan
Demo album by Twelfth Night
Released UK March 1979
Recorded Reading, March 1979
Genre Neo-progressive
Length 48:28
Label Twelfth Night
Producer Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night chronology
Skan The First Tape Album

Skan is an album by UK neo-progressive band Twelfth Night. Recorded in 1979, it was never released, though copies of the tape have circulated among music fans.[1]

Contents

[edit] Production

Skan comprises the first studio recordings made by Twelfth Night, its first line up having been completed when Clive Mitten joined in late 1978. Production took place in March 1979 at the University of Reading, where the band were also to play a concert in summer of that year.[2] With the exception of "Für Helene Part I", the tracks, all written by the band, were recorded as a live performance in an empty hall. The album takes its title from the name of the company from which the band's PA had been hired.[1]

Some of the album tracks differ from how they came to be known, with "Für Helene Part I" being longer than the version later used in live sets; parts of the Skan version of this track were to become part of the experimental "Sequences", which itself went under several revisions during the band's career. "Encore" and "Four And Three" were eventually renamed to "Encore Une Fois" and "Entropy" respectively, the latter track acquiring second and third parts, separately known as "C.R.A.B." and "World Without End", both of which were recorded separately for later albums.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Für Helene Part I" (14:00)
  2. "Sequences" (10:08)
  3. "Four And Three" (5:30)
  4. "Encore" (6:08)
  5. "Für Helene Part II" (12:19)

[edit] Personnel

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Skan. Discography. Twelfth Night. Retrieved on 2007-10-22.
  2. ^ Twelfth Night: The Geoff Mann Years. Alex's Music Collecting Site. Retrieved on 2007-10-22.