Raindance (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Raindance
Type = Album
Artist = Gryphon


Released = 1975
Recorded = 1974-1975
Genre = Progressive folk
Length =
Label = Transatlantic Records
Producer = Gryphon
Reviews =
Last album = "Red Queen to Gryphon Three"
(1974)
This album = "Raindance"
(1975)
Next album = "Treason"
(1977)

"Raindance" is a progressive folk album by Gryphon, originally released in 1975 by Transatlantic, catalogue number TRA 302. It is the penultimate Gryphon album, and the last to include contributions from guitarist Graeme Taylor.

The album was produced by Gryphon, and was co-produced and engineered by Richard Elen. "Down The Dog" was co-produced by Ritchie Gold. The album was recorded at Sawmills Studios, Cornwall during June and July 1975 except "Wallbanger" which was recorded on the Manor Mobile at Brian Goodman's P.L.S. Studios in London during October 1974, with engineer Phil Newall.

The original LP sleeve features illustrations by Tony Wright. Unusually for a Gryphon album, it contains a cover version (a pastoral rendering of The Beatles' "Mother Nature's Son").

Track listing

#"Down The Dog" (Harvey) - 2:44
#"Raindance" (Harvey) - 5:37
#"Mother Nature's Son" (Lennon/McCartney) - 3:08
#"Le Cambrioleur Est Dans Le Mouchoir" (Taylor/Bennett) - 2:14
#"Ormolu" (Harvey) - 1:00
#"Fontinental Version" (Taylor) - 5:36
#"Wallbanger" (Harvey) - 3:33
#"Don't Say Go" (Taylor) - 1:48
#"(Ein Klein) Heldenleben (Harvey) - 16:03

Personnel

*Malcolm Bennett - bass, flute
*Brian Gulland - bassoon, backing vocals, vocal on "Fontinental Version"
*Richard Harvey - grand piano, Rhodes, RMI and Crumar electric pianos, Minimoog, Copeman Hart organ, Mellotron, Clavinet, keyboard glockenspiel, recorders, krumhorns, penny whistle, clarinet on "Cambrioleur"
*David Oberlé - drums, percussion, lead vocals on "Mother Nature's Son" and "Don't Say Go", vocal on "Fontinental Version"
*Graeme Taylor - guitars, backing vocals