Pentateuch of the Cosmogony Patrick Woodroffe Dave Greenslade 2LP 1979 prog
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Pentateuch of the Cosmogony Patrick Woodroffe Dave Greenslade 2LP 1979 prog sci-fi
Original UK pressing on EMI
The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony is a concept album and multimedia project by Patrick Woodroffe and Dave Greenslade, released in 1979. The project combines a hardback book (conceived, written and illustrated by Woodroffe) and a double vinyl album of music (written and performed by Greenslade). The title means, approximately, 'the first five books (pentateuch) of the creation (cosmogony)'.
The story and artwork within 'Pentateuch' concerns the discovery of an abandoned spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter, and the project to decipher the ideograms in the pentateuch 'document' discovered within. Most of the book is a retelling of the document, in much the same way as a modern translator might retell the contents of a Babylonian tablet or Egyptian papyrus scroll. Particularly remarkable is the combinatorial ideographic script created by Woodroffe and used throughout the artwork.
Greenslade contributes the 74 minutes of music as his second solo project, enlisting Phil Collins amongst others to help.
A CD reissue was released in 1994, achieving the awkward transfer of Woodroffe's 12" x 12" book into a 5" square booklet with some success, though the impact of some of the artwork is lost, and the end of one track is faded out early.
A1 Introit 4:05
A2 Moondance 3:07
A3 Beltempest 2:41
A4 Glass 3:02
A5 Three Brides 5:53
B1 Birds & Bats & Dragonflies 3:47
B2 Nursery Hymn 3:32
B3 The Minstrel 2:42
B4 Fresco
B5 Kashrinn
B6 Barcarole 3:51
B7 Dry Land 3:50
C1 Forest Kingdom 3:50
C2 Vivat Regina 3:41
C3 Scream But Not Heard 2:53
C4 Mischief 5:36
C5 War 3:02
D1 Lament For The Sea 3:06
D2 Miasma Generator 5:20
D3 Exile 2:29
D4 Jubilate 2:56
D5 The Tiger And The Dove 5:35
PACKED WEIGHT = 1.25 kg
CONDITION:
SLEEVE / BOOK: EX++ Has some light foxing (brown mildew) on pages (see pic)
RECORDS: NM+
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