Visionary (Gordon Giltrap Album)
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Visionary is a 1976 studio album by guitarist Gordon Giltrap
Gordon Giltrap
Gordon Giltrap is an English acoustic and electric guitarist and composer, whose musical styles cross multiple genres, including folk, blues, folk rock, pop, classical and rock....

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The music is inspired by the words of poet William Blake
William Blake
William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age...

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Side one

  1. "Awakening"
  2. "Robes And Crowns"
  3. "From The Four Winds"
  4. "Lucifer's Cage"
  5. "Revelation"

Side two

  1. "The Price Of Experience"
  2. "The Dance Of Albion"
  3. "The Tyger"
  4. "The Echoing Green"
  5. "London"
  6. "Night"

bonus tracks for Voiceprint 1999CD

  1. "On Wings of Hope"
  2. "Jerusalem"
  3. "Visionary (original version)"

Personnel and Production

  • Gordon Giltrap
    Gordon Giltrap
    Gordon Giltrap is an English acoustic and electric guitarist and composer, whose musical styles cross multiple genres, including folk, blues, folk rock, pop, classical and rock....

     - guitars (Flyde 12 string acoustic, John Bailey 6 string acoustic, double neck 6 and 12 string electric)
  • Rod Edwards - keyboards
  • John G Perry - bass
  • 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


with
  • R.W.Hudson : trumpet
  • Henry Lowther : trumpet
  • Chris Pyne : trombone
  • Chris Mercer : alto and tenor sax
  • Jeff Daly : baritone sax
  • Tony Carr : percussion
  • Roger Hand : percussion
  • Shirlie Roden : vocals
  • Strings led by Pat Halling, contract by George Hamer

  • Music by Gordon Giltrap – inspired by the works of William Blake
  • Arranged by Rod Edwards and Roger Hand (except "From the Four Winds" by Joel Lazar)
  • Recorded between October 1975 and June 1976 at Sound Associate Studios
  • Engineered by Gareth Edwards
  • Mastered by Harry Fisher at Decca Studios

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