Nurses Song With Elephants

by David Bedford

Nurses Song With Elephants cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1972
  • Label: Dandelion
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 41:42
  • Community rating: 3.48/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Fusing classical training with unhinged experimentalism, 'Nurses Song With Elephants' is a notoriously challenging entry within the extended Canterbury Scene lineage. The composer directs varying ensembles through abstract, dissonant free improvisations that utilize unconventional instrumentation. It serves as a fascinating, chaotic testament to the avant-garde collisions happening on the fringes of British progressive rock.

Genres

Descriptors: progressive, dissonant, noisy, improvisation, experimental, orchestral, avant-garde, conceptual, instrumental

Tracklist

  1. It's Easier Than It Looks (3:10)
  2. Nurses Song With Elephants (15:54)
  3. Some Bright Stars for Queen's College (3:26)
  4. Trona (11:53)
  5. Sad and Lonely Faces (7:18)

Credits

  • Adrian Boot - cover
  • Mike Oldfield - bass guitar
  • Gilbert Biberian - conductor
  • The Omega Players - guitar
  • William Blake - words by
  • The Queens College Girls Choir - vocals
  • Sebastian Bell Ensemble - ensemble
  • Kevin Ayers - narrator, vocals

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