Direct to Disc (Crossfire album)

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Direct to Disc
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Studio album by
Released1978 (1978)
Genre Jazz fusion
Label Trafalgar Records
Crossfire chronology
Crossfire
(1975)
Direct to Disc
(1978)
East of Where
(1980)

Direct to Disc is the second studio album by Australian jazz-fusion band Crossfire released on the Trafalgar Records label and distributed by Warner Music in 1978. [1] It was recorded using the direct to disc recording method, hence the title of the record.

Contents

Track listing

  1. It Coitainly Was
  2. On the Wings of Albatrocity
  3. Fahannokookin'
  4. Oddball
  5. Satie-ated

Personnel

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References

  1. "Crossfire - Direct to Disc" [Discogs] Retrieved 4 April 2014.