The Snake

by Harvey Mandel

The Snake cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: April 1972
  • Label: Janus
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 29:57
  • Community rating: 3.61/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Boasting an extraordinary backing band that included Don 'Sugarcane' Harris and members of the Resan collective, the virtuosic guitarist delivered a profoundly funky, instrumental blues-rock masterpiece. The heavily syncopated, polyrhythmic grooves perfectly frame his highly distinctive, sustain-heavy guitar phrasing, resulting in one of the era's premier psychedelic jazz-funk explorations.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, uncommon-time-signatures, improvisation

Tracklist

  1. The Divining Rod (3:01)
  2. Pegasus (3:26)
  3. Lynda Love (2:30)
  4. Peruvian Flake (3:27)
  5. The Snake (3:04)
  6. Uno Ino (2:33)
  7. Ode to the Owl (2:31)
  8. Levitation (5:11)
  9. Bite the Electric Eel (4:10)

Credits

  • Bob Scerbo - supervised by [production supervision]
  • Victor Conte - bass, written-by
  • Paul Lagos - drums, written-by
  • Randy Resnick - rhythm guitar, written-by
  • Chuck Domanico - bass
  • Earl Palmer - drums
  • Jim Taylor - piano, written-by
  • Don "Sugarcane" Harris - strings, violin, written-by

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