Skeleton in Armour

by Fusion Orchestra

Skeleton in Armour cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 2 November 1973
  • Label: EMI
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 42:26
  • Community rating: 3.88/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Fronted by the immensely powerful and theatrical vocals of Jill Saward, the group's sole studio offering is a blisteringly complex slab of heavy progressive rock. Packed with frantic time signature changes, intense flute solos, and driving guitar riffs, it failed to find a wide audience but remains a deeply revered obscurity among prog aficionados.

Genres

Descriptors: progressive, uncommon-time-signatures, rhythmic, technical

Tracklist

  1. Fanfairy Suite for 1000 Trampits (Pt. One) (0:15)
  2. Sonata in Z (11:46)
  3. Have I Left the Gas On? (8:38)
  4. OK Boys, Now's Our Big Chance (0:47)
  5. Skeleton in Armour (5:12)
  6. When My Mamma's Not at Home (3:28)
  7. Don't Be Silly, Jilly (0:08)
  8. Talk to the Man in the Sky (11:55)
  9. Fanfairy Suite for 1000 Trampits (Pt. Two) (0:14)

Credits

  • Fusion Orchestra - primary artist
  • Colin Dawson - artwork [inside lettering], lead guitar, synthesizer [hammond bass pedals], written-by
  • Stan Land - guitar [2nd], slide guitar, steel guitar [hawaiian], synthesizer, harmonica, written-by
  • Hans Holbein - illustration
  • Jill Saward - vocals, flute, piano, electric piano, celesta, synthesizer, harmonium, percussion, organ [hammond], 12-string acoustic guitar, written-by

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