Forever Blowing Bubbles

Infobox Album
Name = Forever Blowing Bubbles
Type = studio
Artist = Clearlight


Released = Start date|1975
Recorded = The Manor Studio, UK
Genre = progressive rock
psychedelic music
jam band
jazz fusion
new age music
Length = 36:15
Label = Virgin
Producer = Cyrille Verdeaux, Mick Glossop
Reviews =
Last album = "Delired Cameleon Family"
1975
This album = "Forever Blowing Bubbles"
1975
Next album = "Les Contes du Singe Fou"
1976

Forever Blowing Bubbles is a progressive rock album by Clearlight, released in 1975 on Virgin Records in the UK. It is their first album to use this artist name, but is regarded as their third album.

Following the success of "Clearlight Symphony", Delired Cameleon Family changed their name to Clearlight and returned to the Manor studio in England to record a second album for Virgin. It covers many contrasting genres ranging from folk music, to jazz fusion, to the closing track of abstract electronic music experimentation. Only two songs have vocals, and are sung in French.

Cover art

The cover depicts connections with previous albums, which became a trend in Clearlight album covers from this point onward. On the cover of "Clearlight Symphony", cables connect an electrical box to a head, with one cable leading off in the distance, over the horizon. On the cover of "Forever Blowing Bubbles", the same cable comes over the horizon, and ends in a disconnected DIN plug lying in the grass, blowing bubbles. The grass appears to be a redrawing of the marijuana leaves from the back cover of "Delired Cameleon Family", but are now just ordinary lawn grass.

Track listing

ide one

#"Chanson" (Joël Dugrenot) – 4:50
#"Without Words" (Cyrille Verdeaux) – 7:30
#"Way" (Dugrenot) – 8:00

ide two

#"Ergotrip" (Verdeaux) – 6:35
#"Et Pendant ce Temps La" (Verdeaux) – 4:10
#"Narcisse et Goldmund" (Verdeaux / Beatrice d'Eaubonne) – 2:30
#"Jungle Bubbles" (Verdeaux) – 2:40

Personnel

*François Jeanneau – bubbles
*Bob Boisadan – electric piano, organ, synthesizer
*Cyrille Verdeaux – grand piano, harpsichord, synthesizer, organ, glockenspiel, Mellotron, gongs, congas
*Jean-Claude d'Agostini – electric guitar, 12-string guitar, flute in C
*Christos Stapinopoulos – drums, congas
*Joël Dugrenot – bass, lead vocals
*David Cross – violin, electric violin
*Christian Boulé – cosmic guitar
*Gilbert Artman – percussion, drums, maracas, vibraphone
*Amanda (Parsons) and Ann (Rosenthal, of the Northettes who are mentioned in the thank-yous; see Hatfield and the North) – celestial choir
*Bruno Verdeaux – synthesizer, aquatic congas
*Brigitte Roy – sings "Narcisse et Goldmund"

produced by Cyrille Verdeaux and Mick Glossop