Chimera

by Duncan Mackay

Chimera cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1974
  • Label: Vertigo
  • Country: South Africa
  • Length: 39:06
  • Community rating: 3.81/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded and released in South Africa before he attained global recognition, the British keyboardist crafted a dazzling, purely instrumental symphonic rock masterwork. Mackay demonstrates extraordinary virtuosity on the Hammond organ and synthesizer, weaving highly complex, shifting time signatures that easily rival the giants of European progressive music.

Genres

Descriptors: progressive, uncommon-time-signatures, complex, synth, virtuosic

Tracklist

  1. Morpheus (11:14)
  2. Twelve Tone Nostalgia (8:10)
  3. Song For Witches (19:42)

Credits

  • Norman Catherine - artwork
  • Anne Marie Mackay - calligraphy
  • Mike Gray - drums
  • Steve Prestage - tape op
  • Roy Clucas - typography
  • Gordon Mackay - violin, electric piano, piano

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