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National Health

The debut album, five long pieces by Stewart and Gowen.
National Health, 1978

Phil Miller played guitar, Stewart acoustic and electric piano, organ and clavinet, Pip Pyle drums and Neil Murray fretless bass, with guests Gowen (piano and Moog), Jimmy Hastings (flute and clarinets), John Mitchell on percussion and Amanda Parsons singing wordless vocals on four tracks. The intro to "Elephants" was recorded live in Tiel, Holland. AllMusic gave it four stars, and the Billboard Guide to Progressive Music judged it easily the best of the band's three releases. The Audiophile Man heard Gowen's pieces as more jazz-inflected and improvised and Stewart's as more structured.

Track listing

  1. Tenemos Roads14:43
  2. Brujo10:19
  3. Borogoves (Excerpt from Part Two)4:16
  4. Borogoves (Part One)6:37
  5. Elephants14:37

More from National Health

Of Queues and Cures (1978), D.S. Al Coda (1982), Missing Pieces (1996), Playtime (2001)

Sources

  1. National Health (album), Wikipedia
  2. National Health, The Audiophile Man (2015-12-23)