Resolving Contradictions

Resolving Contradictions is an album by British musician Andy Mackay, released on Bronze Records in 1978.

Resolving Contradictions
Studio album by Andy Mackay
Released	1978
Recorded	March–July 1978
Studio	Basing Street Studios, London; Sawmills Recording Studios, Cornwall
Genre	Rock
Label	Bronze
Producer	Andy Mackay
Andy Mackay chronology
In Search of Eddie Riff (1974) Resolving Contradictions (1978)

Andy Mackay was once Roxy Music'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 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 - saxophone, oboe, cor Anglais, piano, synthesizer
• Ray Russell - guitar, string and brass arrangements
• Mo Foster - bass
• Tony Stevens - bass
• Paul Thompson - drums, timpani, gong
• Peter van Hooke - drums
• Phil Manzanera - guitar solo on "The Inexorable Sequence"
• Tim Wheater - Chinese reed flute
• Chris Parren - keyboards
• Gavyn Wright - violin solo
• Michael Laird - trumpet

Technical

• Phill Brown - assistant producer, engineer
• Jane Mackay - assistant producer, cover
• Eric Scott - cover painting