Author: Patrick Woodroffe
Title: The Pentateuch Of The Cosmogony
Category: Electronic, Rock
Style: New Age, Prog Rock
Year: 1979
Notes: A hardback book and double vinyl album Date of released in 1979, conceived, written and illustrated by Patrick Woodroffe, with music written and performed by Dave Greenslade. The title means, approximately, 'the first five books (pentateuch) of the creation (cosmogony)'.

The story and artwork within 'Pentateuch' concerns the discovery of an abandoned spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter, and the project to decipher the ideograms in the pentateuch 'document' discovered within. Most of the book is a retelling of the document, in much the same way as a modern translator might retell the contents of a Babylonian tablet or Egyptian papyrus scroll. Particularly remarkable is the combinatorial ideographic script created by Woodroffe and used throughout the artwork.

Greenslade contributes the 74 minutes of music as his second solo project, enlisting Phil Collins amongst others to help.

A CD reissue was Date of released in 1994, achieving the awkward transfer of Woodroffe's 12" x 12" book into a 5" square booklet with some success, though the impact of some of the artwork is lost, and the end of one track is faded out early. Rating: 3.9
Format: MOD VOC XM RA VQF TTA DXD FLAC MP3
MP3 album RAR size: 1351 mb | FLAC album RAR size: 1453 mb

Tracklist

Introit	4:05
Moondance	3:07
Beltempest	2:41
Glass	3:02
Three Brides	5:53
Birds & Bats & Dragonflies	3:47
Nursery Hymn	3:32
The Minstrel	2:42
Fresco
Kashrinn
Barcarole	3:51
Dry Land	3:50
Forest Kingdom	3:50
Vivat Regina	3:41
Scream But Not Heard	2:53
Mischief	5:36
War	3:02
Lament For The Sea	3:06
Miasma Generator	5:20
Exile	2:29
Jubilate	2:56
The Tiger And The Dove	5:35

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
EMSP 332	Patrick Woodroffe / Dave Greenslade	Patrick Woodroffe / Dave Greenslade - The Pentateuch Of The Cosmogony ‎(2xLP, Album, Boo)	EMI	EMSP 332	UK	1979
TC2-EMSP 332	Patrick Woodroffe / Dave Greenslade	Patrick Woodroffe / Dave Greenslade - The Pentateuch Of The Cosmogony ‎(Cass, Album)	EMI	TC2-EMSP 332	UK	1979
BGOCD170	Patrick Woodroffe / Dave Greenslade	Patrick Woodroffe / Dave Greenslade - The Pentateuch Of The Cosmogony ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM)	BGO Records	BGOCD170	UK	1994
STRESS0106263	Patrick Woodroffe / Dave Greenslade	Patrick Woodroffe / Dave Greenslade - The Pentateuch Of The Cosmogony ‎(CD, Album, Unofficial)	Stress Records	STRESS0106263	Russia	1994

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