page_title: Journey (Kingdom Come album)
section_title: Songs
hierarchical_section_title: Journey (Kingdom Come album) / Music and production / Songs
caption_attribution_description: Picture of a Triangle and beater
context_page_description: Journey is the third and final studio album by British experimental rock band Kingdom Come. After the band featured drastically different styles on their first two albums, and after several line-up changes, band leader Arthur Brown worked the band towards a new direction for Journey. The album was the first album in history to use a drum machine responsible for all the percussive sounds on the album. The drum machine in question was the Bentley Rhythm Ace, manufactured by Ace Tone. Although the band had commented the album was entirely based on the drum machine, the band attempted to, in rock and electronic terms, create an album that was the closest they could get "to a string quartet". The album features other experimental techniques, including using a triangle to guide guitar playing and extensive use of Mellotron and synthesizers from new member Victor Peranio, who replaced Michael "Goodge" Harris early on production.
  The album was recorded in November 1972 in Rockfield Studios and released in 1973 by Polydor Records. The album was not a popular release, although has gone on to be regarded as a groundbreaking and innovative album that was ahead of its time.
context_section_description: The album begins with "Time Captives", which begins with a 4/4 slow drum machine beat. According to Head Heritage, "although electronic, the tone gives it a curiously pagan feel – like the (slightly) speeded up death-march of the damned familiar to many Third ear band tracks. Bass and deep washes of white noise quiver underneath as the speed picks up." They called it a "space rock" "The Chain" because "the beat is joined by wa-guitar and funky-but-ominous sounding synthesiser. Everything goes crazy for a second until it gradually settles down into a great motorik groove, and a hugely base riff of warbling notes of moog and bubbling VSC3." Brown's vocals on the song refer to Time Captains, "synthesising the rays powering your brain...lone protons [and] cosmos cold socks." "Triangles" is a slower piece that has been compared to 1974-era Cluster "twilight stroll", with a "ploddingly simple drum machine groove and toy-town flickering synthesisers and guitars," wobbling through "a number of increasingly intense key changes before lurching to a stop." Brown used an actual triangle to guide the guitar playing on the track. Head Heritage, considering it to have predated similar krautrock music, said that, "recorded at the end of 1972, this could easy have come off Ralf and Florian or Zuckerzeit." According to Unterberger said that "Triangles" contains "serene swoops". "Gypsy" makes extensive use of the Mellotron and is "smothered in strings and flutes."
  Side two begins with the three-part suite "Superficial Roadblocks" contains a "celestial quasi-choral tone of sections." One reviewer said it "soars in with brass and choir providing the main chordal backdrop. This track has to be one of the most Mellotron-heavy ever, with an unaccompanied choir section on Corpora Supercelestia." Another said it was "gorgeous, ethereal; indeed, its some of the best choral ‘tron this side of Aguirre, joined as it is by rolling timpani." “Conception” crawls into "earshot fantastically, with a deadbeat dole-queue flanged bass," whilst “Spirit of Joy” is "features that rarest of M400 sounds, the Mellotron Hammond (along with some strings), only distinguishable when Peraino attempts some organ 'chops'." "Come Alive" is "an 8 minute space-prog epic. Clipped bass, fat fizzing synthesiser, and a blues riff that they bring down into the depths, betraying their 60s psych roots, as Arthur riffs on some semi-improvised poetry which he lays over the top." The song, "earthier" and riff-driven, was the album's only attempt to create a "proper song", as Goode at referred to it; Goodge suggested the song before his departure and created the start of the development of the song.
caption: Brown conducted the guitar playing on "Triangles" using a triangle instrument.
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