Red Queen to Gryphon Three
by Gryphon
- Type: Album
- Released: November 1974
- Label: Transatlantic
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 38:11
- Community rating: 3.85/5 from 8 ratings
Artists on this release: Richard Harvey, Ernest Hart, Brian Gulland, Philip Nestor, Pete Redding, Dave Oberl茅
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Structuring the album loosely around a conceptual game of chess, Gryphon expanded their acoustic renaissance instrumentation into a fully electric progressive rock suite. 'Red Queen to Gryphon Three' is a wonderfully playful, remarkably technical instrumental triumph, weaving highly complex bassoons and crumhorns into a profoundly uplifting, intensely medieval pastoral symphony.
Genres
Descriptors: progressive, medieval, complex, instrumental, technical, conceptual, ensemble
Tracklist
- Opening Move (9:47)
- Second Spasm (8:21)
- Lament (10:14)
- Checkmate (9:47)
Credits
- Gryphon - primary artist, arranged by, producer
- Pete Redding - acoustic bass
- Ann Sullivan - art direction
- Vanessa East - art direction
- Philip Nestor - bass guitar, written-by
- Brian Gulland - bassoon, crumhorn [krumhorn], written-by
- Dave Grinsted - co-producer, engineer
- Dave Oberl茅 - drums, percussion, timpani [tymps], written-by
- Graeme Taylor - guitar [guitars], written-by
- Dan Pearce - illustration, design [cover design]
- Richard Harvey - keyboards, recorder, crumhorn [krumhorn], written-by
- Beefy - lacquer cut by
- Ernest Hart - organ
- Robert Ellis - photography by
- Roger Perry - photography by