Visionary (Gordon Giltrap album)

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Visionary
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Studio album by
Released1976 (1976)
RecordedOctober 1975 – June 1976
StudioSound Associates Studio
Genre Folk, progressive rock
Length52:57
Label The Electric Record Company (UK)
Producer Jon Miller, Rod Edwards, Roger Hand
Gordon Giltrap chronology
A Testament of Time
(1971)
Visionary
(1976)
Perilous Journey
(1977)

Visionary is a 1976 studio album by guitarist Gordon Giltrap.

Contents

The music is inspired by the words of poet William Blake. Side one by the illustration "The Day of Judgement" and the poem "The Last Judgement". Side two by the poems and illustrations as titled.

Track listing

All music composed by Gordon Giltrap

Side one

  1. "Awakening"  – 3:01
  2. "Robes and Crowns"  – 1:23
  3. "From The Four Winds"  – 3:30
  4. "Lucifer's Cage"  – 4:07
  5. "Revelation"  – 3:45

Side two

  1. "The Price of Experience"  – 2:22
  2. "The Dance of Albion"  – 1:57
  3. "The Tyger"  – 2:00
  4. "The Echoing Green"  – 2:02
  5. "London"  – 3:01
  6. "Night"  – 3:52

bonus tracks for Voiceprint 1999CD

  1. "On Wings of Hope"  – 3:10
  2. "Jerusalem"  – 3:28
  3. "Visionary" (original version)  – 15:19

Personnel

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