Lady Lake (album)

Lady Lake
Studio album by Gnidrolog
Released	1972
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	38:31
Label	RCA, Disques Rue Bis, Gnidrolog Records, BMG Japan
Producer	Dick Parkinson
Gnidrolog chronology
In Spite of Harry's Toenail (1972) Lady Lake (1972) Live 1972 (1999)

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Lady Lake is the second studio album of the British progressive rock band, Gnidrolog. The album was recorded in the London Morgan Studios in 1972 and released that same year. The album was re-issued in the UK in 1999 and in Japan in 2009. The band retains its uniqueness by not using keyboards and using the piano only on "Same Dreams". The use of the flute is dominant in tracks such as "I could never be a soldier" and is as distinctive as Ian Anderson's flute in Jethro Tull. The songs in the album deal with a variety of concepts varying from pacifism in "I could never be a soldier", which is almost an intimate conversation between the artists and soldier, to pilgrimage with "Ship" and Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake with the title track, Lady Lake. The album cover seems to associate the title with Swan Lake. Shortly after the album was released, the band has broken up for 27 years, due to a lack of commercial success. The band would reunite to record another album only in 1999.

Track listing

1. "I Could Never Be A Soldier" (Colin Goldring) - 11:36
2. "Ship" (Colin Goldring) - 6:44
3. "A Dog With No Collar " (Stewart Goldring) - 2:09
4. "Lady Lake" (Peter "Mars" Cowling, Stewart Goldring) - 8:53
5. "Same Dreams" (Colin Goldring) - 2:49
6. "Social Embarrassment" (Peter "Mars" Cowling, Colin Goldring) - 6:30

Personnel

• Colin Goldring - rhythm guitar, vocals, recorder, tenor horn
• Stewart Goldring - lead guitar
• Peter "Mars" Cowling - bass guitar, cello
• Nigel Pegrum - percussion, flute, oboe
• John Earle - soprano, tenor and baritone saxes, flute, lead vocal on "Social Embarrassment"
• Charlotte Fendrich - piano on "Same Dreams"