The Gardeners
Cliff Morgan: Vocals, Keyboards, Harmonica, Tambourine, Piano
Gregor Stevens: Guitars, Mandolin, Background vocals, Vocals
Mike Gradas: Bass, Guitars
Pat Rudford: Drums, Percussion, Eletric Percussion
Guests Musicians:
Brad Stevens: Bass on 'Sound of Me', 'The Pirro's Victory', 'Fallen Angel', 'Neuronic'
Dave Clark: Slide Guitar on 'Infortuite Hope'
Simon Davis: Harpsichord on 'Harpha Gregorius'
Jason Phillips: Organ on 'Sound of Me', 'Harpha Gregorius', 'Mystic Light'
Drew Arnott: Mellotron on 'Beyond From Imagination'
Nigel Taylor: Sax on 'Fallen Angel' and 'Infortuite Hope'
Greg McLian: Trumpet on 'Fallen Angel' and 'Infortuite Hope'
Bob Vermont: Cello on 'Singin' Stopless'
Brit kids coral on 'Singin' Stopless'
Strings arrangement by Gary Brodan, Gregor Stevens and Cliff Morgan
Produced by Gary Brodan
Engineered and mixed by Kenny Gullicher
Assistant Engineers: Neil Hardman, Bruce Seldom and Steph King
Recorded and mixed at Savvey Road Studios
Mastered by James Guthrie at Producers Workshop
Executive Producer:Jeff Hughes
Art Direction & Design by Samuel Levin
Photography by Suzie Brandom
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Released in the half of 2003, THE HUMAN OBICICLITY IS SAME TO TRANSCIDING OF THE NESTERY represents the largest quality jump in The Gardeners's work. The pompous title - that certain time Cliff Morgan was said to be a chinese proverb - it is simply an effect sentence that was said in Gregor Stevens school in the adolescence. As well as the title, THE HUMAN shows the Welwyn Garden City quartet in a grandiose moment exploring several tendencies and turning a top band. Until today the disc is considered cult by fans spread around the world but mainly in the USA where The Gardeners began. What does THE HUMAN OBICICLITY IS SAME TO TRANSCIDING OF THE NESTERY such special it is to radical change promoted by group in its musical conception. Looking for a way to differentiate them than it came being made until then, Morgan, Stevens, Gradas and Rudford seek for new experiences so much in the personal plan as in the musical. It contributes to the musical growth the largest interaction and change of information with other musicians and some of them participate in the disc, the interest of Cliff for other kinds of music as greek and indian and the purpose of Gregor in learning other instruments. On the personal side a trip to visit Stonehenge and a more intense incursion of double Morgan/Stevens for the drugs ends up contemplating in the spirit state surrounds this CD. Although the critic used adjectives as 'experimental', 'psicodelic' or 'progressive' to label this work the fact is that The Gardeners got to join these and other characteristics without losing the authenticity and selling 5 million copies approximately thwarting another received label that THE HUMAN was 'anti-commercial'. Definitively demolishing this thesis songs as 'Strange Sentences', 'Three Princesses On the Heaven' and 'Singin' Stopless' reached the success charts without any difficulty. The funny 'Three Princesses On the Heaven' (a ballad folk composed by Gregor�s old partners in the high school age) it led charts of Europe by 6 weeks and as well as the album it received indications of prizes for the whole continent. Besides there are novelties as Gregor Stevens presence in the vocal of the transcendental 'Harpha Gregorius' (written by himself) and Mike Gradas composed-song ' The Pirro's Victory', considered one of the best songs of the album (what would have provoked a certain envy in Cliff). Other tracks accompany the most commercial line. The heavy and psicotic 'Neuronic' (perhaps only reference in relation to the previous disc MIGRAINE BOY) and the epic 'Singin' Stopless' with its 11 minutes. Even so it is the experimental sound that dominates this work. Cliff and Gregor admit the influence of groups as Pink Floyd and The Doors. To the style of the english band come tracks as 'Sound of Me' and 'The Life is Coming to Take Me' in that Cliff exercises his suicidal tendencies while to the Los Angeles quartet appear the evangelic 'Mystic Light', 'Fallen Angel' or the blues 'Infortuite Hope'. Other curiosities regarding THE HUMAN are the appearance of a Gregor brother, Brad Stevens, playing bass in 4 tracks and more seven invited musicians and an infantile coral at the end of 'Singin' Stopless' as well as a small polemic with the Catholic Church on the "scientific" cover of the album.
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