Phantasmagoria (Curved Air album)

Infobox Album
Name = Phantasmagoria
Type = studio
Artist = Curved Air


Released = April 1972
Recorded = Advision Studios
Genre = Progressive Rock
Length = 39:04
Label =
Producer = Curved Air
Colin Caldwell
Reviews =
Last album = Second Album
This album = Phantasmagoria
Next album = Air Cut

Phantasmagoria is a 1972 album by Curved Air. It reached No. 20 in the UK Charts and is notable for its early use of the EMS Synthi 100 synthesizer to process lead singer Sonja Kristina's voice on the second side. Unavailable for many years, the album was reissued on CD in April 2007.

Track listing

ide One

#"Marie Antoinette" (Darryl Way, Sonja Kristina Linwood) (6:20)
#"Melinda (More or Less)" (Linwood) (3:25)
#"Not Quite the Same" (Way, Linwood) (3:44)
#"Cheetah" (Way) (3:33)
#"Ultra-Vivaldi" (Way, Francis Monkman) (2:22)

ide Two

#"Phantasmagoria" (Monkman) (3:15)
#"Whose Shoulder Are You Looking Over Anyway?" [The poem read by Linwood and processed by EMS Synthi 100 is from Lewis Carroll's "Phantasmagoria and Other poems":

CANTO IV--Hys Nouryture

"Oh, when I was a little Ghost, A merry time had we! Each seated on his favourite post, We chumped and chawed the buttered toast They gave us for our tea."
[http://fairy-tales.classic-literature.co.uk/lewis-carroll-phantasmagoria-and-other-poems/ebook-page-03.asp]

] (Monkman) (3:24)
#"Over and Above" (Monkman) (8:36)
#"Once a Ghost, Always a Ghost" (Monkman, Linwood) (4:25)

Personnel

* Sonja Kristina – vocals, acoustic guitar
* Francis Monkman – guitars, keyboards, tubular bells, gong, percussion
* Florian Pilkington-Miksa – drums, percussion
* Darryl Way – violin, keyboards, vocals, tubular bells, mellotron on "Marie Antoinette")
* Mike Wedgwood – bass, acoustic guitar, vocals

Guest Musicians

* Annie Stewart – flute on "Melinda (More or Less)"
* Crispian Steele-Perkins – trumpet
* Paul Cosh – trumpet
* Jim Watson – trumpet
* George Parnaby – trumpet
* Chris Pyne – trombone
* Alan Gout – trombone
* David Purser – trombone
* Steve Saunders – trombone
* Frank Ricotti – xylophone, vibes
* Mal Linwood-Ross – percussion
* Colin Caldwell – percussion
* Jean Akers – percussionand featuring
* Doris the Cheetah -- Grand Finale on "Cheetah"

References

* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kzfixqe5ld0e Allmusic description]

External links

* [http://www.musicstreetjournal.com/curvedair.htm Track Descriptions]
* [http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=4797 Phantasmagoria on ProgArchives.com]
* [http://starling.rinet.ru/music/curved.htm#Phantasmagoria Phantasmagoria review]
* [http://www.debaser.it/recensionidb/ID_14406/Curved_Air_Phantasmagoria.htm#Phantasmagoria Phantasmagoria review]