''Elysian Encounter'' is the second album by the English band

Baker Gurvitz Army Baker Gurvitz Army were an English Rock Music, rock group. Their Baker Gurvitz Army (album), self-titled debut album featured a blend of hard rock laced with Ginger Baker's jazz- and Afrobeat-influenced drumming. The lengthy "Mad Jack" was th ...

, released in 1975.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Adrian Gurvitz; except where noted. #"People" (Ginger Baker, Adrian Gurvitz) – 4:17 #"The Key" (Ginger Baker, Paul Gurvitz) – 6:24 #"Time" – 4:04 #"The Gambler" – 4:23 #"The Dreamer" – 3:41 #"Remember" (Ginger Baker, Adrian Gurvitz) – 5:24 #"The Artist" – 5:12 #"The Hustler" (Ginger Baker, Adrian Gurvitz, Paul Gurvitz) – 6:41

Personnel

;Baker Gurvitz Army * Mr. Snips -

lead vocals The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of the ...

(1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8) * Adrian Gurvitz - guitar, backing and lead (3, 6) vocals * Peter Lemer - keyboards * Paul Gurvitz - bass, backing vocals *

Ginger Baker Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker (19 August 1939 – 6 October 2019) was an English drummer. His work in the 1960s and 1970s earned him the reputation of "rock's first superstar drummer", for a style that melded jazz and Music of Africa, Africa ...

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

, backing vocals,

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

* Anton Matthews - backing vocals, prime engineer Mixed at

Trident Studios Trident Studios was a British recording facility, located at 17 St Anne's Court in London's Soho district between 1968 and 1981. It was constructed in 1967 by Norman Sheffield, drummer of the 1960s group the Hunters, and his brother Barry ...

and

Advision Studios Advision Studios was a recording studio in Fitzrovia, central London, England. Origins Founded in the 1960s by Guy Whetstone and Stephen Appleby, Advision originally provided voiceovers and jingles for television advertisements. The studio wa ...

References

Baker Gurvitz Army albums 1975 albums Vertigo Records albums {{1970s-rock-album-stub