The Alchemist

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The Alchemist cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: July 1973
  • Label: CBS
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Community rating: 3.55/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: Mick Stubbs, Cliff Williams, John Anthony, Jimmy Anderson, Laurie Wisefield, HOmE, Mick Cook

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Boasting intricate conceptual storytelling penned by pub-rock legend David Skylar and complex arrangements by guitarist Laurie Wisefield, this album is a highly ambitious attempt at a cohesive progressive rock opus. The dual-sided narrative is supported by a robust mixture of soaring Mellotron passages, intricate acoustic interplay, and heavy, harmonized guitar lines. Although they failed to achieve the superstar status of their contemporaries, the recording remains a beautifully crafted hidden gem of British symphonic rock.

Genres

Descriptors: conceptual, progressive

Tracklist

  1. Schooldays
  2. The Old Man Dying
  3. Time Passes By
  4. The Old Man Calling (Save The People)
  5. The Disaster
  6. The Sun鈥檚 Revenge
  7. A Secret To Keep
  8. The Brass Band Played
  9. Rejoicing
  10. The Disaster Returns (Devastation)
  11. The Death Of The Alchemist
  12. The Alchemist

Credits

  • HOmE - primary artist
  • Cliff Williams - bass guitar, vocals, music by
  • Mick Cook - drums, percussion [various], music by
  • William Rankin - illustration
  • Laurie Wisefield - lead guitar, acoustic guitar, steel guitar, vocals, music by
  • Mick Stubbs - lead vocals, guitar, piano, music by, words by [story]
  • Jimmy Anderson - piano, organ, mellotron, synthesizer, vocals, arranged by [all keyboard]
  • Hundred Percent Studio - typography

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