Resolving Contradictions

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Name = Resolving Contradictions
Type = Album
Artist = Andy Mackay


Released = 1978
Recorded =
Genre = Rock
Length =
Label = Bronze Records
Producer =
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Last album = "In Search of Eddie Riff" (1974)
This album = "Resolving Contradictions" (1978)
Next album =

"Resolving Contradictions" is an album by British musician Andy Mackay, released on Bronze Records in 1978.

Andy Mackay was once Roxy Music's saxophonist, and some members of the group happen to play on this record. This opus is a "concept album" with references to the chinese culture. The cover (designed by Jane Mackay) figures a sort of post Cultural Revolution scene. And the sound of most of the numbers relates to what a western world audience could "know" about chinese music.

Track listing

All songs are by Andy Mackay; except n5, by Ray Russell and Andy Mackay

#"Iron Blossom"
#"Trumpets on the Mountains Off to Work "Unreal City""
#"The Loyang Tractor Factory"
#"Rivers"
#"Battersea Rise"
#"Skill and Sweat"
#"The Ortolan Bunting (A Sparrow's Fall)"
#"The Inexorable Sequence"
#"A Song of Friendship (Teh Renmin Hotel)"
#"Alloy Blossom Trumpets in the Suburbs"
#"Green and Gold"

Personnel

*Andy Mackay, horns, piano & synthi
*Ray Russell, guitar
*Mo Foster, bass
*Tony Stevens, bass
*Paul Thompson, percussions
*Peter van Hooke, drums
*Phil Manzanera, guitar on "The Inexorable Sequence"
*Tim Wheater, flutes
*Chris Parren, keyboards
*Gavyn Wright, violin
*Michael Laird, trumpet