Illusion

by Isotope

Illusion cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: November 1974
  • Label: Gull
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 41:52
  • Community rating: 3.52/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Guided by guitarist Gary Boyle and featuring former Soft Machine bassist Hugh Hopper, Isotope delivered a highly polished, fiercely energetic sophomore album. The record stands as a definitive document of the British jazz-rock movement, blending the whimsical complexity of the Canterbury Scene with hard-hitting fusion rhythms.

Genres

Descriptors: Fusion, instrumental, uncommon-time-signatures

Tracklist

  1. Illusion (3:55)
  2. Rangoon Creeper (5:59)
  3. Spanish Sun (7:49)
  4. E-Dorian (2:01)
  5. Frog (2:30)
  6. Sliding Dogs / Lion Sandwich (5:59)
  7. Golden Section (5:13)
  8. Marin County Girl (2:06)
  9. Lily Kong (2:32)
  10. Temper Tantrum (3:45)

Credits

  • Isotope - primary artist
  • Langen And Wind - artwork [dye transfer]
  • Hugh Hopper - bass
  • Nigel Morris - drums, percussion
  • Gary Boyle - guitar
  • Laurence Scott - keyboards, synthesizer
  • W - lacquer cut by

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