''If 2'' is the second release by the English Jazz rock band If. It was released in 1970 on the

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label in the UK and

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in the US. The album features the early use of Innovex Reed Sound Modulators for the saxophones. The single from the album was "Your City Is Falling"."Special Merit Spotlight" ''Billboard'', March 13, 1971
''

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''. Retrieved 22 April 2013. It was re-issued as a CD first in 1996 by an obscure label (OSA), then in 1997 by Island and finally in 2012 on Repertoire Records with liner notes by UK music critic Chris Welch and containing a bonus DVD of four songs recorded live at the Mountford Hall, Liverpool University, 1 July 1971.

Track listing

Side one

# "Your City Is Falling" (

Dave Quincy David Quincy (born 13 September 1939, Battle, Sussex), better known as Dave Quincy (and also billed as Dave Quincey), is an English saxophonist and composer who was a founder-member of British jazz-rock bands If and Zzebra. Before joining If ...

) – 5:04 # "Sunday Sad" (

Dick Morrissey Richard Edwin Morrissey (9 May 1940 – 8 November 2000) was a British jazz musician and composer. He played the tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone and flute. Biography Background He was born in Horley, Surrey, England. Dick Morrissey emerg ...

) – 8:18 # "Tarmac T. Pirate and the Lonesome Nymphomaniac" (

Margaret Busby Margaret Yvonne Busby, , Hon. FRSL (born 1944), also known as Nana Akua Ackon, is a Ghanaian-born publisher, editor, writer and broadcaster, resident in the UK. She was Britain's youngest and first black female book publisherJazzmine Breary"Let' ...

, Lionel Grigson) – 4:24 # "Song for Elsa, Three Days Before Her 25th Birthday" (

J. W. Hodkinson John William Hodkinson (29 December 1942 – 9 June 2013), also known as J.W. Hodkinson or J.W. Hodgkinson, was a British rock vocalist. Hodkinson was born in Leigh, Lancashire, now in Greater Manchester, England. After performing as Johnny Go ...

) – 5:11 ;''Bonus DVD'': # "Your City Is Falling (Live)" # "Sunday Sad (Live)" # "I Couldn't Write And Tell You (Live)" # "Forgotten Roads (Live)"

Personnel

–

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, percussion *

– tenor and

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saxophone,

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– tenor and

alto The musical term alto, meaning "high" in Italian (Latin: ''altus''), historically refers to the contrapuntal part higher than the tenor and its associated vocal range. In 4-part voice leading alto is the second-highest part, sung in choruses by ...

saxophones, flute * Terry Smith – guitar *

John Mealing John Mealing (born 5 April 1942 in Yeovil, Somerset) is a British keyboardist, composer and arranger. After leaving the Don Rendell-Ian Carr Quintet in the late sixties,organ Organ may refer to: Biology * Organ (biology), a part of an organism Musical instruments * Organ (music), a family of keyboard musical instruments characterized by sustained tone ** Electronic organ, an electronic keyboard instrument ** Hammond ...

, backing vocals,

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Jim Richardson James Anthony Richardson (born 16 February 1941, Tottenham, London) is an English jazz and rock bassist and session musician. He was a member of the progressive rock band If. Career An original member of pioneering British jazz-rock band, If ...

–

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* Dennis Elliott –

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Production

* engineer – Frank Owen, Jon Child * producer –

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References

External links

* {{Authority control 1970 albums If (band) albums Island Records albums Capitol Records albums