Snafu
by East of Eden
- Type: Album
- Released: 27 February 1970
- Label: Deram
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 1:17:31
- Community rating: 4.12/5 from 5 ratings
Artists on this release: Dave Arbus, Geoff Britton, Richard Gottehrer, Geoff Nicholson, David Hitchcock, Andy Sneddon
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Heavily reliant on Dave Arbus's electric violin and flute playing, the British band's sophomore effort is a spectacularly chaotic collision of free jazz, psychedelia, and world music motifs. Incorporating ska rhythms and avant-garde noise, the intensely complex and bizarrely structured tracks set them apart as one of the most adventurous acts on the Deram roster.
Genres
Descriptors: progressive, fusion, jam, experimental, folk
Tracklist
- Have To Whack It Up (2:16)
- Leaping Beauties For Ruby, Marcus (7:02)
- Xhorkom, Ramadhan, In The Snow Fo (8:05)
- Uno Transito Clapori (2:26)
- Gum Arabic, Confucius (8:16)
- Nymphenburger (6:14)
- Habibi Baby, Beast Of Sweden, Boe (6:17)
- Traditional- Arranged By East Of (1:32)
- Jig-a-Jig (3:44)
- Petite Fille (3:53)
- Biffin Bridge (5:49)
- Blue Boar Blues (7:11)
- Nymphenburger (First Take) (5:13)
- Marcus Junior (Single Edit) (5:10)
- Jig-a-Jig (Take Nine) (4:17)
Credits
- Andy Sneddon - bass guitar, strings
- Geoff Britton - drums, claves, drum [african hand drum], percussion
- Geoff Nicholson - guitar, harmonica [harp], guitar [both], vocals, strings, piano, strings
- Charles Mingus - written-by
- Traditional - written-by
- Ron Caines - alto saxophone [electric], vocals, soprano saxophone, piano, vocals, soprano saxophone, vocals, alto saxophone [electric and acoustic], synthesizer [stylophone], tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
- Dave Arbus - violin, tenor saxophone, tenor saxophone, electric violin, flute, trumpet, tenor saxophone, flute, bells [indian], bagpipes [bagpipe chanter], flute, electric violin, violin [six violins], flute, violin