Migration of the Snails
by Melodic Energy Commission
- Type: Album
- Released: 1980
- Label: Energy
- Country: Canada
- Length: 34:56
- Community rating: 3.63/5 from 3 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Hailing from Vancouver, the Melodic Energy Commission crafted a highly eccentric, deeply psychedelic instrumental journey with 'Migration of the Snails'. The album prominently features the theremin alongside cosmic guitar wanderings and complex progressive rock percussion. It stands as a unique, heavily improvised artifact of the Canadian avant-garde space rock scene.
Genres
Descriptors: experimental, acoustic, traditional, lo-fi, improvisation
Tracklist
- Plight Of The Dodo (2:58)
- Galloop (2:13)
- Perriwinkle St (2:12)
- Rider From Nempnett Thrubwell (2:40)
- Migration Of The Snails (6:11)
- Escargot (4:01)
- Off On A Current (2:50)
- Gastropods In Transit (3:58)
- Doorway Into Summer (7:53)
Credits
- Melodic Energy Commission - primary artist, written-by, performer [performed by the]
- Mark Franklin - concept by, guitar, bass, written-by, bass harmonica, written-by, bass, clarinet, written-by, bass, strings
- Tim Hammell - illustration
- Otter - vocals [words of warning], vocals, flute [arago the vegetable flute]
- Gordon Tipper-Hooves - backing vocals [back voice]
- John Murray - guitar, written-by, written-by, performer [sheets of glass], chorus [choral]
- Kathleen Yearwood - written-by
- Ramona - other [eye witness]