Numbers
by Cat Stevens
- Type: Album
- Released: November 1975
- Label: Island
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 33:25
- Community rating: 2.77/5 from 2 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'Numbers' is a highly esoteric concept album from Cat Stevens, subtitled 'A Pythagorean Theory Tale'. The ambitious narrative follows a fictional planet ruled by mathematics, blending his characteristic folk-pop sensibilities with dense synthesizer textures and complex, spiritually searching lyrical themes.
Genres
Descriptors: conceptual, fantasy
Tracklist
- Whistlestar (3:47)
- Novim's Nightmare (3:52)
- Majik of Majiks (4:31)
- Drywood (4:56)
- Banapple Gas (3:09)
- Land o' Freelove & Goodbye (2:48)
- Jzero (3:47)
- Home (4:13)
- Monad's Anthem (2:17)
Credits
- Gordie Fleming - accordion
- David Sanborn - alto saxophone
- Chico Batera - congas, triangle, waterphone, ganz谩, wind chimes
- Bruce Lynch - double bass, bass [fender precision]
- Gerry Conway - drums [hayman kit, ludwig snares], vocals
- Simon Nicol - guitar [fender stratocaster, rickenbacker 12 string & gibson j200]
- Jean Roussel - organ [yamaha, b3], electric piano [wurlitzer], synthesizer [eminence string synthesizer], harpsichord, piano, vibraphone, arranged by [strings & brass arrangements]
- Alun Davies - twelve-string guitar, acoustic guitar [martin d 41], vocals