Nothing Is Written

by Galahad

Nothing Is Written cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: June 1991
  • Label: Self-Released
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:07:34
  • Community rating: 2.88/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Stephen Darrell Smith, Mark Andrews, pedalboard, Stuart Nicholson, Tim Ashton

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Financed and produced independently by the band, this debut full-length captures the Dorset quintet at the forefront of the 1990s neo-progressive rock underground. 'Nothing Is Written' intertwines lush keyboard textures with complex, socially conscious songwriting that echoes the ambitious structures of 1970s symphonic rock.

Genres

Descriptors: progressive, conscious, political, uncommon-time-signatures

Tracklist

  1. Face to the Sun (7:59)
  2. Chamber of Horrors (5:23)
  3. Evaporation (5:56)
  4. Motherland (6:44)
  5. Room 801 (7:05)
  6. Aqaba ( A Matter of Going!) (5:37)
  7. Bark in D Minor (0:42)
  8. Legacy (4:07)
  9. The Automaton (4:36)
  10. Don't Lose Control (5:31)
  11. Richelieus Prayer (8:13)
  12. There Must Be A way (5:35)

Credits

  • Galahad - primary artist, written-by, arranged by, performer
  • Tim Ashton - bass [bass collection and rickenbacker 4001, fretless basses, aria 4-string and musicman 5-string fretless basses], effects [boss effects], electronics [laney amps], music by
  • Spencer Luckman - drums [pearl acoustic drums], percussion [zildjan, sabian, paiste and zanki cymbals], music by
  • Roy Keyworth - electric guitar [gibson les paul], acoustic guitar [clarissa acoustic guitars], effects [boss and electro-harmonix effects pedals], electronics [fender and peavey amps], music by
  • Mark Andrews - keyboards [roland d-50, s-10, jx-3p, u-220, sh-101 keyboards, korg m1 and mono/poly keayboards], mellotron, organ [hammond c3], synthesizer [akai s900 sampler, kawai k1m and minimoog synthesisers], pedalboard [taurus bass pedals], upright piano [upright acoustic piano thingy], software instrument [atari 104st running smpte track sequencing software], programmed by [alesis hr16 programming], music by, written-by, arranged by, performer
  • Stuart Nicholson - lyrics by, music by, vocals, backing vocals, tambourine [because he's the only one that thinks it's a real instrument]

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