Track listing

1. "The First Ring Made of Clay" (R. Glover) 7:45
2. "The Next A Ring of Fire" (R. Glover) 9:45
3. "The Third Ring's Watery Flow" (R. Glover) 9:00
4. "The Fourth Ring With the Wind" (R. Glover/M. Birch) 6:33
5. "Finale" (R. Glover/M. Birch) 2:17

Personnel

• Roger Glover
  Roger Glover
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  : ARP 2600
  ARP 2600
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   Synthesizer
  Synthesizer
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  , Oberheim
  Oberheim
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   polyphonic synthesizer, bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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  , percussion
  Percussion instrument
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  , tabla
  Tabla
  The tabla is a popular Indian percussion instrument used in Hindustani classical music and in popular and devotional music of the Indian subcontinent. The instrument consists of a pair of hand drums of contrasting sizes and timbres...
  
  , sitar
  Sitar
  The 'Tablaman' is a plucked stringed instrument predominantly used in Hindustani classical music, where it has been ubiquitous since the Middle Ages...
  
   guitar, acoustic guitar, vibes, backing vocals
• Simon Phillips
  Simon Phillips
  Simon Phillips is an English jazz, pop and rock drummer.-Career:Phillips began to play professionally at the age of twelve in his father's Dixieland band for four years. He was then offered the chance to play in the musical Jesus Christ Superstar...
  
  : drums
  Drum kit
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  , tabla, percussion
• Micky Lee Soule
  Micky Lee Soule
  Mickey Lee Soule was the keyboard player for New York state hard rock band Elf and a founding member of Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow.Не was born on June 6, 1946 in Cortland, New York. Mickey had a band in the mid-1960s until he was drafted into the army...
  
  : Piano
  Piano
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  , organ
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  , percussion
• Graham Preskett: Electric violin
  Violin
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  , clarinet
  Clarinet
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• Ronnie Aspery: Saxophone
  Saxophone
  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
  , flute
  Flute
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• Martin Birch
  Martin Birch
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  : Acoustic piano, backing vocals
• Liza Strike: Lead Vocals
• Helen Chappelle: Lead

• The Munich Philharmonic conducted by Graham Preskett

Production notes

• Produced by Martin Birch and Roger Glover
• Recorded and mixed at Musicland Studios, Munich, Germany, 1977
• Engineered by Martin Birch assisted by Hans Menzel
• Mastered at Sterling Sound, New York by Greg