The First Seven Days (album)

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The First Seven Days was recorded by jazz artiste Jan Hammer in 1975; featuring much use of synthesizers, including such use for all "guitar" parts (as on his follow-up album, Oh Yeah?), it can be considered as one of the pioneering works of acid jazz, so much so that at least one downloads site has miscategorised it as "Pop" instead of "Jazz". (The other instruments used are grand piano, electric violin and percussion.)

It is a musical telling of the Genesis creation story, and the sleevenotes say 'Assuming that each of these "days" lasted anywhere from one day to a hundred million years, the scientific and biblical views do meet in certain points. These points were the inspiration for this album, and, besides, the provided me with an excuse to write seven new pieces of music.'

[edit] Track listing

On the LP version, side 2 begins with track 5.

1. Darkness/Earth in Search of a Sun
2. Light/Sun
3. Oceans and Continents
4. Fourth Day — Plants and Trees
5. The Animals
6. Sixth Day — the People
7. The Seventh Day

[edit] External links

The First Seven Days at MusicBrainz

Note that, as of the date of this edit, the track listing at MusicBrainz is wrong; the first track has been split into two (nobody seems to have noticed that an album called The First Seven Days is far more likely to have seven tracks than eight) and some of the names are incorrect (e.g. "Light and Sun" instead of "Light/Sun").