Mercator Projected
by East of Eden
- Type: Album
- Released: February 1969
- Label: Deram
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 45:00
- Community rating: 4.35/5 from 5 ratings
Artists on this release: Dave Arbus, Steve York, Dave Dufont, Geoff Nicholson
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Blending searing electric violin with heavy Eastern scales and wildly shifting rhythms, East of Eden delivered a brilliantly chaotic debut of early British prog. 'Mercator Projected' is wonderfully eclectic and fiercely progressive, matching deeply surreal, highly humorous psychedelic rock with remarkably complex jazz-rock improvisation and cryptic fantasy themes.
Genres
Descriptors: progressive, uncommon-time-signatures, fantasy, improvisational, string arrangements
Tracklist
- Northern Hemisphere (5:03)
- Isadora (4:32)
- Waterways (6:49)
- Centaur Woman (7:09)
- Bathers (4:58)
- Communion (4:02)
- Moth (3:54)
- In the Stable of the Sphinx (8:30)
Credits
- East Of Eden - primary artist
- Steve York - bass guitar, harmonica, thumb piano [indian thumb piano], written-by
- Decca Publicity Art Department - design [sleeve design by]
- Dave Arbus - electric violin, flute, bagpipes [bagpipe], recorder [recorders], saxophone [two saxophones at once], performer [lavatory], written-by
- Adrian Martins - engineer [assistant recording engineer]
- Derek Varnals - engineer [recording engineer]
- Geoff Nicholson - guitar, vocals, written-by
- W - lacquer cut by
- Dave Dufont - percussion
- David Wedgbury - photography by [cover photograph]
- Noel Walker - producer [produced by]
- Ron Caines - soprano saxophone [acoustic and amplified], alto saxophone [acoustic and amplified], organ, written-by, vocals