Resolving Contradictions

Album by Andy Mackay

Resolving Contradictions is Andy Mackay’s second solo album, released in 1978, conceived as a concept piece inspired by Chinese history and culture. It blends art rock and progressive instrumental music with extensive orchestration and synthesisers.
First released: 1978

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Iron Blossom
    1:46
  2. 2.
    Trumpets on the Mountains / Off to Work / “Unreal City”
    3:50
  3. 3.
    The Loyang Tractor Factory
    4:14
  4. 4.
    Rivers
    7:34
  5. 5.
    Battersea Rise
    4:11
  6. 6.
    Skill and Sweat
    3:28
  7. 7.
    The Ortolan Bunting (A Sparrow’s Fall)
    3:47
  8. 8.
    The Inexorable Sequence – Guitar (solo) – Phil Manzanera
    7:18
  9. 9.
    A Song for Friendship (The Renmin Hotel)
    3:14
  10. 10.
    Alloy Blossom – Trumpets in the Suburbs
    4:05
  11. 11.
    Green and Gold
    2:26