Erik SatieFeaturing: Camarata Contemporary Chamber Orchestra
Through A Looking Glass (LP)
FormatLPLabelDeram, London RecordsGenreComposition
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In the early seventies Erik Satie turned into a cult figure for the counterculture, and Tutti Camarata, a veteran arranger who had worked for Disney, built two records around him for Deram. This is the second, after The Velvet Gentleman: the Gymnopédies, Gnossiennes, Sarabandes, the Rosicrucian preludes and a complete Parade, arranged for a chamber group of London's top session players, including Alan Civil on horn and William Bennett on flute, with a touch of electric guitar.
The result is halfway between chamber music and soft psychedelia, a period piece that took Satie into record shops where he had never been seen. Issued in 1971 by London Records in the US, in the original silver foil sleeve.
Release notes
Issued with a silver foil cover Runouts etched No accents are used within most of the tracklisting. Total duration of track A1 is 5:51, of A3 is 5:35.
| A1.a | Gymnopedies # 1 | ||
| Deux Preludes Posthumes | |||
| A1.b | Fete Donnee Par Les Chevaliers Normands En L'Honneur D'Une Jeune Demoiselle (11th Century) | ||
| A1.c | Premier Prelude Du Nazareen | ||
| Gnossiennes | |||
| A2.a | Quartrième | ||
| A2.b | Cinquième | ||
| A2.c | Sixième | ||
| A3.a | Le Fils Des Etoiles | ||
| A3.b | Prelude Du Premier Acte | ||
| A3.c | Prelude De La Porte Heroique Du Ciel | ||
| Sarabandes | |||
| A4.a | Deuxième | ||
| A4.b | Troisième | ||
| B1 | Through A Looking Glass | 5:30 | |
| B2 | Parade (Ballet Réaliste) | 13:50 | |
- Camarata
- Arranged By
- Vincent Biondi
- Art Direction
- Tom Kelley
- Clarinet
- Erik Satie
- Composed By
- Sidney Sax
- Concertmaster
- Arthur Lilley
- Engineer [Recording]
- William L Robinson
- Engineer [Reduction]
- Chris Taylor
- Flute
- William Bennett
- Flute
- Roland Marker
- Guitar
- Alan Civel
- Horn [1st]
- Susan Obrant
- Illustration
- Derek Wickens
- Oboe
- Les Pearson
- Piano
- Tony D'Amato
- Producer
- John Wilbraham
- Trumpet
