Of Queues and Cures
by National Health
- Type: Album
- Released: November 1978
- Label: Charly
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 53:07
- Community rating: 4.21/5 from 6 ratings
Artists on this release: Peter Blegvad, John Greaves, Phil Minton, Phil Miller, Georgie Born, Rick Biddulph, Paul Nieman, Pip Pyle, Keith Thompson, Dave Stewart, Selwyn Baptiste, Jimmy Hastings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Considered a late-era zenith of the Canterbury Scene, National Health's second album is an astonishing display of virtuosic, highly complex progressive jazz-rock. 'Of Queues and Cures' executes incredibly technical improvisations and unconventional time signatures while maintaining a remarkably lush, wonderfully playful warmth and moments of brilliantly manic eccentricity.
Genres
Descriptors: complex, technical, improvisation, uncommon-time-signatures, instrumental
Tracklist
- The Bryden 2-Step (For Amphibians) [Part 1] (8:53)
- The Collapso (6:17)
- Squarer for Maud (11:48)
- Dreams Wide Awake (8:47)
- Binoculars (11:43)
- Phlakaton (0:09)
- The Bryden 2-Step (For Amphibians) [Part 2] (5:28)
Credits
- National Health - primary artist, producer
- John Greaves - bass, piano [innards], written-by, vocals [crooning]
- Jill Mumford - design [sleeve]
- Pip Pyle - drums, percussion [& hand claps], written-by
- Brian Gaylor - engineer
- Mike Dunne - engineer, producer
- Phil Miller - guitar, written-by
- Ray Staff - lacquer cut by
- Dave Stewart - organ, electric piano, piano, written-by, piano, synthesizer [minimoog]
- Brian Rule - photography by [front]
- Laurie Lewis - photography by [group shot]
- Georgie Born - cello
- Paul Nieman - trombone
- Phil Minton - trumpet
- Selwyn Baptiste - steel drums
- Jimmy Hastings - bass clarinet, flute, clarinet
- Keith Thompson - oboe
- Peter Blegvad - voice
- Rick Biddulph - bass [on 6/4 organ solo]