''Mogul Thrash'' is the sole album by English
progressive rock
Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog; sometimes conflated with art rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s. In ...
band
Mogul Thrash
Mogul Thrash were an English progressive rock band, active in the early 1970s.
Biography
British jazz-rock band Mogul Thrash evolved from James Litherland's Brotherhood, which in addition to guitarist Litherland (an alumnus of Colosseum who ...
, released in 1971 by
RCA Records
RCA Records is an American record label currently owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. It is one of Sony Music's four flagship labels, alongside RCA's former long-time rival Columbia Records; also A ...
.
Track listing
Side One
# "Something Sad" (Roger Ball) 7:36
# "Elegy" (James Litherland) 9:36
# "Dreams of Glass & Sand" (James Litherland,
Pete Brown) 5:09
Side Two
# "Going North, Going West" (James Litherland, Pete Brown) 12:01
# "St. Peter" (
Alan Gorrie, John Wetton) 3:39
# "What's This I Hear" (James Litherland, Michael Rosen) 7:13
* "Sleeping in the Kitchen" (James Litherland, Roger Ball, Pete Brown) (2:45) released as a single, included on the 1999 reissue.
Personnel
;Mogul Thrash
*
James Litherland – guitar, vocals
*
John Wetton
John Kenneth Wetton (12 June 1949 – 31 January 2017) was an English musician, singer, and songwriter. Known for his dexterous bass playing and booming baritone voice, Wetton first gained fame in the early 1970s.
Wetton was the singer and p ...
– bass, vocals, guitar
*
Malcolm Duncan –
tenor saxophone
The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while ...
* Michael Rosen – trumpet,
mellophone, guitar
*
Roger Ball –
soprano,
alto and
baritone saxophones, brass arrangements
* Bill Harrison – drums
;Additional personnel
*
Brian Auger
Brian Albert Gordon Auger (born 18 July 1939) is an English jazz rock and rock music keyboardist who specialises in the Hammond organ.
Auger has worked with Rod Stewart, Tony Williams, Jimi Hendrix, John McLaughlin, Sonny Boy Williamson, a ...
– piano (2–2)
;Technical
*
Eddy Offord
Eddy Offord (born 20 February 1943) is a retired English record producer and audio engineer who gained prominence in the 1970s for his work on albums by the progressive rock bands Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Yes.
Life and career
Offord studied phys ...
– engineer
*Graham McCallum – sleeve design
References
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* RCA (''Mogul Thrash'')
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Mogul Thrash albums
1971 debut albums
RCA Records albums