Gryphon
Raindance
FormatCDLabelBelle AntiqueGenrePsychedelia & Kraut
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Raindance, released by Gryphon in 1975 on Transatlantic, continued the move away from the strict early music focus of their debut. Malcolm Bennett had replaced Philip Nestor on bass and also plays flute, while Richard Harvey took on a much wider keyboard set: grand and electric pianos, Minimoog, Mellotron, Clavinet and organ, along with his recorders and crumhorn. Brian Gulland is on bassoon, Graeme Taylor on guitar and Dave Oberlé on drums.
The album is made of shorter pieces and songs, including a version of the Beatles' Mother Nature's Son, Harvey's title track and Taylor's Fontinental Version and Don't Say Go, before closing with Harvey's sixteen-minute (Ein Klein) Heldenleben, a nod to Richard Strauss in its title. The sound is more electric and closer to jazz-tinged progressive rock, with the woodwinds now one colour among many.
After this record Bennett and Taylor left to form Precious Little, and Gryphon recorded one more album, Treason, in 1977.
Japanese CD reissue by Belle Antique, SHM-CD, digitally remastered by Kazuo Ogino, in a mini LP sleeve with obi and Japanese liner notes.
Release notes
Licensed from Ⓟ1975 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd. Licensed courtesy of Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG company CD cover printed by Ichikudo Printing Co., Ltd. Other printed matters printed by Tokyo Denca Co., Ltd. CD artwork coordinator: Izumi Idogawa CD manufactured by JVC KENWOOD Creative Media Co., Ltd. Digitally remastered by Kazuo Ogino
| 1 | Down The Dog | 2:44 | |
| 2 | Raindance | 5:37 | |
| 3 | Mother Nature's Son | 3:08 | |
| 4 | "Le Cabrioleur Est Dans Le Mouchoir" | 2:14 | |
| 5 | Ormolu | 1:00 | |
| 6 | Fontinental Version | 5:36 | |
| 7 | Wallbanger | 3:33 | |
| 8 | Don't Say Go | 1:48 | |
| 9 | (Ein Klein) Heldenleben | 16:03 |
- Philip Warr
- Art Direction
- Malcolm Bennett
- Bass, Flute
- Brian Gulland
- Bassoon, Backing Vocals
- Richard Elen
- Co-producer, Engineer
- Dave Oberlé
- Drums, Percussion
- Richard Harvey
- Grand Piano, Electric Piano [Rhodes, Rmi, Crumar], Synthesizer [Mini-moog], Organ [Copeman Hart], Mellotron, Clavinet, Glockenspiel [Keyboard Glockenspiel], Recorder, Crumhorn, Tin Whistle [Penny]
- Graeme Taylor
- Guitar, Backing Vocals
- Tony Wright
- Illustration
- 宮坂聖一
- Liner Notes
- Gryphon
- Producer
- Kazuo Ogino
- Remastered By
