Camouflage (Sonny Condell album)

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Camouflage
Album Camouflage-Condell-frontcover.png
Original cover designed by Sonny Condell. The photo was taken by Michael Fitzgerald.
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 1977 (1977-06)
RecordedJanuary 1977 (1977-01), [1]
Studio Lombard Sound, Dublin [2]
Genre Folk
Length42:43
LanguageEnglish
Label Mulligan
Producer Shaun Davey
Sonny Condell chronology
Camouflage
(1977)
Someone to Dance With
(1994)
Singles from Camouflage
  1. "Down in the City"
    Released: 1977

Camouflage is the debut solo album by Irish musician Sonny Condell. It was released in June 1977 in Ireland by Mulligan Music. [1]

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Sonny Condell. All arrangements by Condell, Jolyon Jackson and Greg Boland

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Camouflage"6:40
2."Moon Dust"3:35
3."Red Sail"4:28
4."Down in the City"6:59
Total length:21:42
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Movie of You"5:47
2."Why Do We Fight?"4:05
3."Leaders of Men"7:00
4."Backwaterawhile"4:09
Total length:21:01

Personnel

Production

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
Ireland1977 Mulligan stereo LP LUN 010
Ireland2004MulliganCDLUNCD 010

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References

  1. 1 2 Album: Camouflage, Release Date: 1977, Recording Date: January 1977, allmusic.com, retrieved 1 May 2011
  2. Camouflage LP notes