Track listing

1. FLEMING BARRAS (1645 - ????) [The Year Of Wonders] (09:49)
2. JORGEN BARRAS (1834 - 1900) [Revelation Road] (05:11)
3. AMY QUARTERMAINE (1862 - 1916) [A Perfect Childhood] (17:05)
4. HARRIET HORDEN (1912 - 1955) [A Night At The Savoy, 1933] (05:05)
5. JAMES FAIRFAX (1922 - 1945) [An Average Man] (06:31)
6. AMELIA FAIRFAX (1926 - 2010) [Black Silk Sheets Of Cairo] (07:58)
7. DAVID LOGAN (1967 - 2022) [The Southern Waves] (08:47)

Personnel

• Guy Manning
  Guy Manning
  Guy Manning is an English multi-instrumentalist and singer, best known for his own album work and for his membership of progressive rock bands Parallel or 90 Degrees, The Tangent and his own, Manning.-Biography:...
  
  : Acoustic 6,12 & Classical and Electric Guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  s, Drums, Keyboards
  Musical keyboard
  A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the...
  
  , Bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , Bouzouki
  Bouzouki
  The bouzouki , is a musical instrument with Greek origin in the lute family. A mainstay of modern Greek music, the front of the body is flat and is usually heavily inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The instrument is played with a plectrum and has a sharp metallic sound, reminiscent of a mandolin but...
  
  , Mandolin
  Mandolin
  A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
  
   and Vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  

• Chris Catling: Electric Guitar
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
   and Vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  
• Kev Currie: Electric Guitar and Vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  
• Steve Dundon (Courtesy of Molly Bloom): Flute
  Flute
  The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
  
  
• Kris Hudson-Lee
  Kris Hudson-Lee
  Kris Hudson-Lee is the bassist with progressive rock singer-songwriter Guy Manning, and was a director of the Classic Rock Society...
  
  : Bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Julie King: Vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
   (Lead vocal on "A Night at the Savoy, 1933")
• Tim Leadbeater: Grand Piano (4,7), Electric piano solo (1)

Guests

• John Kennard: Vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  , Darbuka and Drum program consultancy
• Marek Arnold: Soprano Sax
  Soprano
  A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...
  
  , Alto Sax
  Alto
  Alto is a musical term, derived from the Latin word altus, meaning "high" in Italian, that has several possible interpretations.When designating instruments, "alto" frequently refers to a member of an instrumental family that has the second highest range, below that of the treble or soprano. Hence,...
  
  , Tenor Sax
  Saxophone
  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
   and Clarinet (Courtesy of 'Toxic Smile')
• Ian 'Walter' Fairbairn
  Ian 'Walter' Fairbairn
  Ian 'Walter' Fairbairn is an English folk musician, who was raised in the North East of England. He developed his musical talent whilst still at school, inspired by his contemporaries Dave Richardson and the concertina player Alistair Anderson...
  
  : Fiddle
  Violin
  The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
  
  
• Kathy Hampson: Cello
  Cello
  The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
  
  
• Leon Camfield (Courtesy of 'Tinyfish
  Tinyfish
  Tinyfish is an English progressive rock band, founded in 2004. The band members are Simon Godfrey , Jim Sanders , Paul Worwood , Robert Ramsay and Leon Camfield .-Formation:Tinyfish was formed in September 2004.Simon Godfrey, Jim Sanders and Paul Worwood, friends since their...
  
  '): Assorted percussion
• Mark Woodward: Additional Violin
• Phideaux
  Phideaux Xavier
  Phideaux Xavier is an American TV director and composer of modern technological music that he describes as "psychedelic progressive gothic rock", who grew up in New York City but now lives in Los Angeles.-Life and work:...
  
  (As the 'MC at the Savoy')

External links

• Margaret's Children at Guy Manning website
• Album Reviews listed at Guy Manning website
• Related Interviews listed at Guy Manning website