Track listing

1. Controversy (4:16)
2. Splinter (3:21)
3. Fisher's Gambit (5:17)
4. Hand Full of Earth (6:20)
5. Giant Steps (2:55) (John Coltrane)
6. At Taliesin (4:09)
7. Big Sky Wanting (6:00)
8. The Big Idea (6:15)
9. Sinfonia (Hidden Track) (33:06) a.k.a Three-Part Invention in D minor
   • Contains approximately 30 minutes of silence, then Bach's Sinfonia number 4 in D minor

Track listing (re-release)

1. Controversy (4:16)
2. Splinter (3:21)
3. Fisher's Gambit (5:17)
4. Hand Full of Earth (6:20)
5. Sinfonia a.k.a Three-Part Invention in D minor
6. Giant Steps (2:55) (John Coltrane)
7. At Taliesin (4:09)
8. Big Sky Wanting (6:00)
9. The Big Idea (6:15)
10. Unquity Road (3:42) (Pat Metheny)
    • Originally released as a bonus track on the Japanese version of the self-titled Gordian Knot album.

Personnel

• Sean Malone
  Sean Malone
  Sean Malone is an American musician who plays primarily fretless bass guitar and Chapman stick. However, Malone also plays piano, keyboards, and guitar. He is most well known as a member of the progressive band Cynic.- Biography :...
  
   - bass guitar, chapman stick, keyboards
• Trey Gunn
  Trey Gunn
  Trey Gunn is an American musician, known for his membership in progressive rock band King Crimson from 1994 to 2003, playing Warr Guitar and Chapman Stick.-Biography:...
  
   - warr guitar
• Reeves Gabrels
  Reeves Gabrels
  Reeves Gabrels is an American guitarist, known for virtuosity, versatility, and originality. His compositions and improvisations defy genre and "explore sonic extremes with a great, adaptive intuition for what each song needs most."...
  
   - guitars
• Bob Brunin - guitars
• Geoff Caputo - guitars
• Glenn Snelwar - mandolins
• Sean Reinert
  Sean Reinert
  Sean Reinert is the drummer of Cynic and Æon Spoke. He is known for his technical, original and creative drumming technique....
  
   - drums, percussion

Trivia

• "Fisher's Gambit" is reworked and renamed "Fischer's Gambit" on Gordian Knot
  Gordian Knot (band)
  Gordian Knot is an American progressive rock/metal band directed by bass guitarist Sean Malone. At times its shifting lineup has included Steve Hackett of Genesis, Bill Bruford of King Crimson and Yes, Ron Jarzombek from Watchtower and Spastic Ink as well as Jim Matheos of Fates Warning, several of...
  
  's second album Emergent
  Emergent (album)
  Emergent is the second album by American progressive rock band Gordian Knot, and is the only album apart from Focus to contain all original members of Cynic.- Track listing :#"Arsis" – 1:59#"Muttersprache" – 6:26#"A Shaman's Whisper" – 6:33...
  
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