Egg

Tracklist

Side One

1. Bulb (Gallen) (0.09)
2. While Growing My Hair (Campbell, Stewart,Brooks) (3.53)
3. I Will Be Absorbed(Campbell, Stewart, Brooks) (5.10)
4. Fugue in D Minor (Bach,arr Egg) (2.46)
5. They Laughed When I Sat Down At The Piano . .. (Campbell, Stewart, Brooks) (1.17)
6. The Song of McGillicudie the Pusillanimous(or Don't worry James, Your Socks Are Hanging in the Coal Cellar withThomas) (Campbell, Stewart, Brooks) (5.07)
7. Boilk(Campbell, Stewart, Brooks) (1.00)

Side Two

• SYMPHONY NO. 2 (Campbell, Stewart, Brooks) (24.00)
  1. Movement 1 (5.47)
  2. Movement 2(6.20)
  3. Blane (5.28)
  4. [Omitted - see below] (3.14)

  5. Movement 4 (4.51)

"While Growing My Hair exploits some of the rhythmicpossibilities of the traditional 6/8, including the properties of syncopationwhich has made it a stock jazz rhythm.
I Will Be Absorbed hasvaried moods; the peacefully secure rhythms and harmonies in 9/4 and 7/4contrast with the heavier, more neurotic 13/8 middle section with its chordalbuild-ups and anticlimaxes. The subject is the unattainable; the ideal,mysterious music that all true musicians seek.
Fugue. Some ofthe famous Toccata & Fugue in D Minor (adapted).
McGillicudie the Pusillanimous etc is a fast-movingimprovisation song in 5.8 constructed on the chord of F Minor.
Symphony 2
Movement 1 is a vehicle for organimprovisation in different rhythms and harmonic bases, one of them theHall of the Mountain King by Greig set off by a rhythmic/melodicfigure in 9/4.
Movement 2 is concerned with the treatment of atheme basically in 5/4 including drum 'solo' interludes and an improvisation onthe tone generator.
Movement 3 has had to be omitted from thisrecord due to copyright difficulties.
The last Movement is a framework fordrum + bass solo with an atonal theme.
Sleeve Note

Lyrics

while growing my hair

while
growing my hair
they
heard a strange air
played
on a frenchhorn
all shaven and shorn
blow your thing do your mind
come on inwaters fine
freak and shout laugh about
make sure youre not left out
thats what you have to do
if you want to be one of the few
when
just out of school
i
felt such a fool
did
i do it wrong
some
didn't belong
blow your thing etc
while
covered in ink
i
had time to think
daub
here for a time
but
beclandestine
blow your thing etc

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i will be absorbed

half of the time ispend thinking alone
while im working out songs or just
lying in thesun
the magical sound that i long to express
always just out of reachof my
groping hands
like the wanton muse
beckoning to me
vanishes before
i can see her face
how many times has a transientdawns
beauty faded away before you understand
and a woman whose smileis a
lingering song
bringing tears to your eyes though you dont know
why
like a fragrant light moves before your eyes
a million milesaway
never to return
wafting past from my childhood
hazy thoughtsand sensations
these must hold the key to my life
i always find thoseindefinite things
if i manage to touch them they
turn into stone
and the quality that kept me following them is
only a sound that i
knew all the time
if i ever find
what im looking for
i will beabsorbed and
never write again

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the song of mcgillicudie the pusillanimous or dontworry james your socks are hanging in the coal cellar with thomas

where should igo what should i do now that i know i cant get away from youeveryone has something to hide from themselves now its too late to go back goright on i feel so alone
what should i say where should i look isnt itgreat now everythings gone black perfectly safe feel quite well why dont youjust go to hell back where you came from

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