Carla Bley - Tropic Appetites
Genre: Jazz
Singer: Carla Bley
Title: Tropic Appetites
Short-info: Label: WATT Works ‎– WATT/1, ECM Records ‎– 2313 101
Type: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
Country: Germany
Date of released: 1978
Category: Jazz
Style: Contemporary Jazz
MP3 album size .rar: 1432 mb
APE album size .rar: 1338 mb
Digital formats: MP3 FLAC ADX AC3 VQF AA WAV VOC MPC

Tracklist

A1 What Will Be Left Between Us And The Moon Tonight? 11:00
A2 In India 1:10
A3 Enormous Tots 6:00
A4 Caucasian Bird Riffles 5:05
B1 Funnybird Song 1:15
B2 Indonesian Dock Sucking Supreme 8:55
B3 Song Of The Jungle Stream 10:15
B4 Nothing 3:35

Companies, etc.

  • Marketed By – ECM Records
  • Marketed By – ECM Records GmbH
  • Manufactured By – ECM Records
  • Phonographic Copyright (p) – Watt Works, Inc.
  • Copyright (c) – Watt Works, Inc.
  • Published By – Alrac Music
  • Recorded At – Blue Rock Studio
  • Recorded At – Island Studios
  • Mixed At – Blue Rock Studio

Credits

  • Cello, Acoustic Bass, Bass Guitar – David Holland*
  • Design [Album Design] – Paul McDonough
  • Drums, Percussion – Paul Motian
  • Engineer – Eddie Korvin, Frank Owen
  • Engineer [Special Assistance] – Richard Elen
  • Photography By [Photographs Used In Collage] – Paul Haines
  • Photography By [Photographs] – Gregory Reeve
  • Tenor Saxophone, Percussion – Gato Barbieri
  • Trumpet, Valve Trombone, Producer [Produced By] – Michael Mantler
  • Violin, Viola – Toni Marcus
  • Voice – Julie Tippetts
  • Voice, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone [Soprano Sax], Baritone Saxophone [Baritone Sax], Bass Saxophone [Bass Sax], Tuba [Tubas] – Howard Johnson
  • Voice, Recorder [Recorders], Piano, Electric Piano, Clavinet, Organ, Marimba, Celesta [Celeste], Percussion, Music By, Producer [Produced By] – Carla Bley
  • Words By – Paul Haines

Notes

What Will Be Left Between Us And The Moon Tonight? - for Japan
In India - to Irene
Enormous Tots - to People's Music Works
Caucasian Bird Riffles - for Sheila
Funnybird Song - to Swallow
Indonesian Dock Sucking Supreme - to Peking Widow
Song Of The Jungle Stream - to Besha and to Tadd Dameron
Nothing - for WATT

recorded September 1973 through February 1974
engineer: Eddie Korvin
Blue Rock Studio, New York

Julie Tippetts recorded November 1973
engineer: Frank Owen
Island Studios, London
special assistance: Richard Elen

mixed February and March 1974
engineer: Eddie Korvin
Blue Rock Studios, New York

publisher: Alrac Music (BMI)
Copyright ℗ 1974 by Watt Works, Inc., 6 West 95th Street New York, N. Y. 10025
Manufactured and marketed by ECM Records, Gleichmannstraße 10, München 60
Printed in W. Germany
[on back cover]

Marketed by ECM Records GmbH
[on labels]

Gatefold cover

Red labels, with sightly different design to other german ECM pressing.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Matrix / Runout (Runout side A): ST WATT 1-A1
  • Matrix / Runout (Runout side B): ST WATT 1-B
  • Rights Society: GEMA
  • Rights Society (Alrac Music): BMI
  • Label Code: LC 4438

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
WATT/ 1 Carla Bley Tropic Appetites ‎(LP, Album) WATT Works, Virgin WATT/ 1 UK 1974
WATT/ 1 Carla Bley V.I.P.-Jazz 27 ‎(LP, Album, Ltd) WATT Works WATT/ 1 Austria Unknown
L 35253 Carla Bley Tropic Appetites ‎(LP, Album, gat) Virgin L 35253 Australia 1974
WATT/1, 557 480-2 Carla Bley Tropic Appetites ‎(CD, Album, RE) WATT Works, ECM Records WATT/1, 557 480-2 Germany 1998
WATT/ 1 Carla Bley Tropic Appetites ‎(LP, Album) WATT Works WATT/ 1 US 1974


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