Resolving Contradictions is an album by British musician Andy Mackay

Andy Mackay

Andrew "Andy" Mackay is an English multi-instrumentalist, best known as a founder member of the art-rock group Roxy Music....

, released on Bronze Records

Bronze Records

Bronze Records is an independent English record label set up in 1971 by record producer Gerry Bron, and based in Chalk Farm, London.Bron had been producing Uriah Heep for Vertigo Records, and he set up this new label for future Uriah Heep releases, along with Juicy Lucy, Richard Barnes and Colosseum...

 in 1978.

Andy Mackay

Andy Mackay

Andrew "Andy" Mackay is an English multi-instrumentalist, best known as a founder member of the art-rock group Roxy Music....

 was once Roxy Music

Roxy Music

Roxy Music was a British art rock band formed in 1971 by Bryan Ferry, who became the group's lead vocalist and chief songwriter, and bassist Graham Simpson. The other members are Phil Manzanera , Andy Mackay and Paul Thompson . Former members include Brian Eno , and Eddie Jobson...

's saxophonist, and some members of the group happen to play on this record. This opus is a "concept album" with references to the Chinese culture. The cover, designed by Jane Mackay, figures a sort of post-Cultural Revolution

Cultural Revolution

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, commonly known as the Cultural Revolution , was a socio-political movement that took place in the People's Republic of China from 1966 through 1976...

 scene. And the sound of most of the numbers relates to what a western world audience could "know" about Chinese music.

Track listing

All songs are by Andy Mackay; except "Battersea Rise" by Ray Russell and Andy Mackay

1. "Iron Blossom"
2. "Trumpets on the Mountains Off to Work "Unreal City""
3. "The Loyang Tractor Factory"
4. "Rivers"
5. "Battersea Rise"
6. "Skill and Sweat"
7. "The Ortolan Bunting (A Sparrow's Fall)"
8. "The Inexorable Sequence"
9. "A Song of Friendship (The Renmin Hotel)"
10. "Alloy Blossom Trumpets in the Suburbs"
11. "Green and Gold"

Personnel

• Andy Mackay
  Andy Mackay
  Andrew "Andy" Mackay is an English multi-instrumentalist, best known as a founder member of the art-rock group Roxy Music....
  
   - horns, piano & synthi
• Ray Russell
  Ray Russell (musician)
  Raymond 'Ray' Russell is an English session musician who is primarily a guitarist. He is also renowned as a record producer, composer and session musician....
  
   - guitar
• Mo Foster
  Mo Foster
  Mo Foster is a British session musician, playing primarily jazz, jazz-fusion and rock bass guitar. He is also a music producer and songwriter/composer. In over 40 years as a musician Foster has played on and produced countless albums, singles, and film soundtracks...
  
   - bass
• Tony Stevens
  Tony Stevens
  Tony Stevens is an English musician, best known as the bassist with the bands Foghat and Savoy Brown.- Career :...
  
   - bass
• Paul Thompson
  Paul Thompson
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   - percussions
• Peter van Hooke
  Peter Van Hooke
  Peter Van Hooke was drummer in the English band Mike + The Mechanics as well as having drummed for Cliff Richard, Van Morrison's band, Headstone, and Ezio. During the 1980s he successfully co-produced many of Tanita Tikaram's hits.Van Hooke grew up in Stanmore, Middlesex and attended Mill Hill...
  
   - drums
• Phil Manzanera
  Phil Manzanera
  Phil Manzanera is a musician and record producer. He is the lead guitarist with Roxy Music. In 2006 Manzanera co-produced David Gilmour's album On An Island and played in Gilmour's band for tours in Europe and North America...
  
   - guitar solo on "The Inexorable Sequence"
• Tim Wheater - Chinese reed flute
• Chris Parren - keyboards
• Gavyn Wright
  Gavyn Wright
  Gavyn Wright is a British violinist and orchestra leader with the London Session Orchestra and Penguin Cafe Orchestra, best known for his orchestral arrangements on pop productions as well as numerous TV and movie soundtracks Gavyn Wright is a British violinist and orchestra leader with the London...
  
   - violin solo
• Michael Laird - trumpet