Jade Warrior - Kites (1976) (2010)

Artist: Jade Warrior
Title Of Album Kites
Year Of Release: 1976/2010
Label (Catalog#) : Esoteric [ECLEC2199]
Country: UK
Genre: Prog Rock
Quality: FLAC (*tracks + .cue,log,scans)
Bitrate: Lossless
Total Time: 36:27
Total Size: 207Mb

Kites is the sixth studio album by British progressive/experimental rock band Jade Warrior released in 1976 by Island Records. Kites, more layered and complex than Waves, the duo's previous outing, took nine months to record
Kites presented the band "at their most musically abstract and progressive", featuring a larger number of guest musicians than any previous album. Each side here is a long concept piece: side A – Jon Field's side (partly inspired by abstract artist Paul Klee's painting "The Kingdom of the Air", otherwise meaning to convey the sounds of a kite drifting through skies), on side B, driven by Tony Duhig, the wandering Zen boat monk Teh Ch'eng in 9th century China provided a conceptual focus.

Tracks:
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1. Songs Of The Forest (3:30)
2. Wind Song (3:25)
3. The Emperor Kite (2:21)
4. Wind Borne (7:32)
5. Kite Song (2:20)
6. Land Of The Warrior (3:29)
7. Quietly By The River Bank (4:35)
8. Arrival Of The Emporer: "What Does The Venerable Sir Do?" (2:27)
9. Teh Ch'eng: "Do You Understand This?" (1:08)
10. Arrival Of Chia Shan: Discourse And Liberation (0:53)
11. Towards The Mountains (2:04)
12. The Last Question (2:37)

Personnel:
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Tony Duhig / composer, performer & producer
Jon Field / composer, performer & producer
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Clodagh Simonds / chorus vocals (1,2)
Roger Bryson / piano (3,7)
Geoff Westley / electric piano (4)
Debbie Hall / violins (2,3)
Fred Frith / violins (9)
Joe O'Donnell / violins (10)
String Quartet (3,7)
Peter Gibson / brass (1,4)
Coleridge Goode / bass (4)
William Murray / snare & bass drum (1)
Graham Morgan / drums (3), snare (7)

All thanks to original releaser