Island
Pictures
FormatCDLabelBelle AntiqueGenrePsychedelia & Kraut
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Island was a Swiss progressive rock band led by singer Benjamin Jäger, and Pictures, released in 1977, is its only studio album. The quartet had no guitarist: Peter Scherer played keyboards, pedal bass and crotales, René Fisch saxophones, flute and clarinet, and Güge Jürg Meier drums, gongs and percussion. The Italian Claudio Fabi produced the record, and the cover uses a painting by H.R. Giger.
The music is dense and often sombre, with organ and synthesizer layers, reed lines that come from jazz, and Jäger's dramatic vocals. The title track runs close to seventeen minutes and Herold And King / Dloreh over twelve and both move through several sections, with passages that come close to jazz-rock.
The 23-minute Empty Bottles is included as a bonus track.
Japanese CD reissue by Belle Antique in a gatefold mini LP replica with obi and Japanese liner notes, SHM-CD, remastered, with one bonus track. Repress of the 2013 remaster.
Release notes
© 2022 Belle Antique. The obi says "2 bonus tracks", but this is a mistake and it is actually only Empty Bottles as before. Packaged in a gatefold mini LP sleeve with obi, Japanese liner notes and cloth CD sleeve in a resealable clear plastic outer sleeve. This reissue is an encore pressing of the [url=https://www.discogs.com/release/9376964]2013 remastered CD[/url]. Made in Japan.
| 1 | Introduction | 1:28 | |
| 2 | Zero | 6:13 | |
| 3 | Pictures | 16:51 | |
| 4 | Herold And King / Dloreh | 12:13 | |
| 5 | Here And Now | 12:15 | |
| 6 | Empty Bottles | 23:35 |
- Kanata Suzuki
- Artwork [CD artwork cordinator]
- Güge Meier
- Design [Cover], Drums, Gong [Gongs], Percussion
- Pierre Bendel
- Design [Cover]
- Carlo Martenet
- Engineer
- Ezio De Rosa
- Engineer, Mixed By
- Mario Carulli
- Engineer
- Erwin Pircher
- Executive-Producer
- Peter Scherer
- Keyboards, Pedalboard [Pedal-Bass], Crotales, Voice [Voices]
- Benjamin Jäger
- Lead Vocals [Lead - Vocals], Percussion
- 三輪岳志
- Liner Notes
- 川原真理子
- Liner Notes [Lyrics translate]
- Claudio Fabi
- Mixed By, Producer
- Marlysa Fehr
- Other ["herold"-mask Made By]
- H.R. Giger
- Painting [Front Cover]
- Rico Fischbacher
- Photography By
- Kazuo Ogino
- Remastered By
- Hirobumi Kawanishi
- Remastered By [2007 CD]
- René Fisch
- Saxophone [Saxes], Flute, Clarinet, Triangle, Voice [Voices]
