The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage

Single sleeve, lyrics inner sleeve and large Mad Hatter labels. From back cover: Marketed by B&C Records, 37 Soho Sq., London, W.1. Printed & made by the E.J.Day Group, London & Bedford From printed inner sleeve: Recorded at Sofa Sound, Sussex (A1,A2,B2) and Rockfield Studios, Monmouthsire (A3,A4,B3) in September+October, 1973. Vox+mellotrons on A1 & A2 were dubbed onto Sofa backing tracks at Rockfield. The whole thing was mixed at Trident Studios, London in October 1973. B1 recorded at Island Studios, London, April 1973. Gordianisation: Troeller! Grateful acknowledgements/random information dept:- Run-ups: (Sofa) The Judge (Foel)-(Rockfield) Capt. Banana or whatever Initial integration location: Clearwell Cuisine: (Rockfield+Sofa) Alice, (Clearwell) Frogs+Toads, "Smoky" O.S.A. Truck+Hump: J. Buonuomo + the other 2 (sorry, but names lost in the ensuing madness) Sofa bass presence: Red Max Hutchinson R.S. Film crew: Sparkes, Jeept, Overload Transatlantic co-ordination: Chris Konsczcs?? Comedy team: Dylan + Laddie Others (in order of disappearance): Dave Anderson+reveried components, Pancho, Bjorn Ovid, the Big Girl, D.D., Tap-bat, picture-darts, golfwinks, Jean-Pierre Bumdrop, Meringue, All Wards, "N" Down+the fly circus, several taxi drivers in search of Mr. Feltham, Sue Jaxon, Sebastian ----- Peter Hammill, Dec'73/Jan'74 Lyrics included. Modern (cities) / Wilhelmina (children) / The Lie (Bernini's St. Theresa) (religion/sex) / Forsaken Gardens (loss+hope) / Red Shift (scientific alienation) / Rubicon (choice) / A Louse Is Not A Home (search....I?) Label matrices are in parentheses. Runouts are stamped.