Harmony Of The Spheres

Tracklist

A1	Upstarts All
A2	Leap In The Dark
A3	Glittering Circles
A4	Fair Mirage
B1	Soft Stillness And The Night
B2	Headstrong, Headlong
B3	Towards Tranqility

Companies, etc.

• Record Company – The Decca Record Company Limited
• Printed By – Robert Stace
• Recorded At – Morgan Studios
• Published By – Misty River Music
• Mastered At – Utopia Studios
• Pressed By – Decca Record Co. Ltd., Pressing Plant, UK.

Credits

• Art Direction – Storm Thorgerson
• Artwork – Richard Manning
• Bass Guitar – Bill Kristian
• Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone – Tony Coe
• Drums, Percussion – Richard Burgess*
• Electric Piano, Piano [Acoustic], Synthesizer [Minimoog] – Geoff Castle
• Engineer – Martin Levan
• Engineer [Assistant] – Mark Freegard
• Flute, Soprano Saxophone – Barbara Thompson
• Percussion – Trevor Tomkins
• Photography By – Alex Henderson
• Piano – Geoff Castle
• Producer – Martin Levan, Neil Ardley
• Rhythm Guitar [Electric], Lead Guitar [Electric] – John Martyn
• Synthesizer [Arp Odyssey, Omni] – Neil Ardley
• Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Ian Carr
• Voice [Voices] – Norma Winstone, Pepi Lemer
• Written-By – Neil Ardley

Notes

Recorded at Morgan Studios, London, from July to September 1978.

℗ © 1979, The Decca Record Company Limited, London

John Martyn appears courtesy of Island Records; Barbara Thompson by courtesy of MCA Records; Ian Carr by courtesy of Capitol Records and Richard Burgess by courtesy of Event Horizon Records.

Special thanks to Bruce May for great encouragement, and to Gordon Clark of the Abbotsholme Arts Society, who first commissioned the music in association with Bass Charrington.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Label A): ZAL 16086
• Matrix / Runout (Label B): ZAL 16087
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, stamped): ZAL-16086.P-1 C 1 Ʊ [lyre symbol]
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, stamped): ZAL-16087.P-1G 2 D

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
TXS-3153	Neil Ardley	Harmony Of The Spheres (Armonía De Las Esferas) ‎(LP, Album, Promo)	Decca	TXS-3153	Spain	1979
POCJ-2838	Neil Ardley	Harmony Of The Spheres ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Decca	POCJ-2838	Japan	2000
GXH-2021	Neil Ardley	Harmony Of The Spheres ‎(LP, Album, RE)	London Records	GXH-2021	Japan	1980
6.23985 AS	Neil Ardley	Harmony Of The Spheres ‎(LP, Album)	Decca	6.23985 AS	Germany	1979
ECLEC 2096	Neil Ardley	Harmony Of The Spheres ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM)	Esoteric Recordings	ECLEC 2096	UK	2008

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