Primordial Lovers
Primordial Lovers | ||||
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Released | 1970 | |||
Recorded | 1969 | |||
Studio | Elektra Sound Recorders, Los Angeles; Pacific High Recording Studios, San Francisco | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Language | English | |||
Label | Rhino Handmade | |||
Producer | Frazier Mohawk | |||
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Allmusic | [1] |
Primordial Lovers, Reprise 6377, is a 1970 rock album by Essra Mohawk. In 2000 the album was re-released by Rhino Handmade as a 22 track collection, combining the original album with a non-album single, "Jabberwock Song", and the 1974 follow-up album, Essra Mohawk.
The original 1970 Reprise issue of the album included a 20-page booklet with the album's song lyrics. In 2010 the original album was reissued by Collector's Choice with five extra tracks.
Track listing of original album[]
All tracks composed by Essra Mohawk
- "I Am the Breeze"
- "Spiral"
- "I'll Give It to You Anyway"
- "I Have Been Here Before"
- "Looking Forward to the Dawn"
- "Thunder in the Morning"
- "Lion on the Wing"
- "It's Up to Me"
- "It's Been a Beautiful Day"
Additional tracks[]
- "Jabberwock Song"
- "Image of You"
- "New Skins for Old"
- "Openin' My Love Doors"
- "Full Fledged Woman"
- "You're Finally Here"
- "Summertime"
- "Back in the Spirit"
- "You Make Me Come to Pieces"
- "I Cannot Forget"
- "Song to an Unborn Soul"
- "If I'm Going to Go Crazy With Someone, It Might As Well Be You"
- "Magic Pen" [2]
Personnel[]
- Essra Mohawk – piano, vocals, arrangements
- Jerry Hahn - guitars (tracks: A2, B4, B5)
- Lee Underwood - guitar on "I Have Been Here Before"
- Doug Hastings - guitar (tracks: A3, B2)
- Dallas Taylor - drums (tracks: A3, B2)
- George Marsh - drums (tracks: A2, B4, B5)
- James Zitro - drums on "I Have Been Here Before"
- Mel Graves - bass (tracks: A2, B4, B5)
- Jerry Penrod - bass (tracks: A3, B2)
- Bruce Cale, Kenneth Jenkins - bass on "I Have Been Here Before"
- Mike Cohen - organ on "I Have Been Here Before"
- Joe Keefe - vibraphone, finger cymbals on "I Have Been Here Before"
- Bert Wilson - tenor saxophone on "I Have Been Here Before"
- Al Aarons, Warren Gale - trumpet on "I Have Been Here Before"
- Kenny Shroyer - trombone on "I Have Been Here Before"
- Phil Teele - bass trombone on "I Have Been Here Before"
- Gale Robinson - French horn on "I Have Been Here Before"
- George St. John - oboe (tracks: A1, B4)
- Peter Pilafian - violin on "Lion On the Wing"
- John Meyers, Mike Dubkin - flute on " It's Up To Me"
- Technical
- Brian Ross-Myring, Phil Sawyer, Fritz Richmond, Leonard Roberts - engineer
- John Haeny - mixing
- Ed Thrasher - art direction
- Barry Feinstein - photography
References[]
Categories:
- 1970 albums
- Essra Mohawk albums
- Rhino Handmade albums
- 1970s rock album stubs