Moroccan Roll

Moroccan Roll
Studio album by Brand X
Released	April 1977
Recorded	December 1976–January 1977 at Trident Studios, London
Genre	Jazz fusion
Length	49:30
Label	Charisma (UK) Passport (USA)
Producer	Dennis MacKay
Brand X chronology
Unorthodox Behaviour (1976) Moroccan Roll (1977) Livestock (1977)

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Allmusic	[1]

Moroccan Roll (1977) is the second studio album by British jazz fusion group Brand X. The title is a pun referring to this being their second album: "more rock and roll", however, Moroccan Roll is not a step toward the rock & roll side of the fusion equation, but rather an experiment with Eastern sounds and softer textures.^[2] The album is mostly instrumental; only "Sun in the Night" is sung by Phil Collins, with lyrics in Sanskrit.

Track listing

Side one

1. "Sun in the Night" (Goodsall) – 4:25
2. "Why Should I Lend You Mine (When You've Broken Yours Off Already)..." (Collins) – 11:16
3. "...Maybe I'll Lend You Mine after All" (Collins) – 2:10
4. "Hate Zone" (Goodsall) – 4:41
5. "Collapsar" (Lumley) – 1:33

Side two

1. "Disco Suicide" (Lumley) – 7:55
2. "Orbits" (Jones) – 1:38
3. "Malaga Virgen" (Jones) – 8:28
4. "Macrocosm" (Goodsall) – 7:24

Personnel

• John Goodsall – guitar, bass, vocals (1), sitar, echo
• Robin Lumley – keyboards, piano, Fender Rhodes electric piano, Moog synthesizer, Clavinet, vocals
• Percy Jones – bass, autoharp (7), marimba (8)
• Phil Collins – drums, vocals (1,3), piano (3)
• Morris Pert – percussion and a vast number of bits and things that he hit while the tape was running, including: The QE2, Idi Amin, and undiscovered parts of Scotland

Production

• Produced by Dennis MacKay
• Engineered and mixed by 'Perdurabo' Stephen W. Tayler
• Mastered by Ray Staff
• Album artwork by Hipgnosis

Charts

Year	Chart	Position
1977	UK Album Chart	37[3]

References

1. Connolly, Dave. "Moroccan Roll - Brand X | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 18 June 2011.
2. http://aolradio.slacker.com/?aolid=
3. "Chart Stats - Brand X - Moroccan Roll". www.chartstats.com. Archived from the original on 2012-07-29. Retrieved 2010-01-09.

External links

• "Brand X (3) - Moroccan Roll at Discogs". www.discogs.com. Retrieved 2010-01-09.