Artist:  Utopia

Title:  RA

Date:  1977

Label:  Bearsville Records BR 6965

Album Package Concept: Utopia  

Front an Back Cover Photography: Ron Slenzak

Pyramid Insert Photography: Norman Seeff

Calligrapher: Hal Fiedler

Notes:  Getting bigger in sound and grander in scale the music on this record is just built for large venues. I remember seeing this tour (the Stone Pony perhaps?) in New Jersey back in the day and it was very well received. A dnese sound at times, the record seems to follow a sort of conceptual path ending with a final cut weighing in at around 18 minutes in length. Not a Todd album, but a true group sound on this one. The "in character" outfits on the back cover and the "Do It Yourself Pyramid Kit" included with the record hints at a small measure of satire may be in the works here, but we don't care as long as the music keeps playing.

Line Up:

Todd Rundgren: guitar and vocals
Roger powell: keyboards, synthesizer, vocals
Kasim Sulton: bass and vocals
John "Willie" Wilcox: drums, percussion, vocals

Track Listing

Side 1

Overture: Mountaintop and Sunrise
Communion With the Sun
Magic Dragon Theatre
Jealousy
Eternal Love
Sunburst Finish

Side 2

Hiroshima
Singring And The Glass Guitar (An Electrified Fairytale)