Isles of Langerhan

Isles of Langerhan
Studio album by
The Late Bronze Age
Released1982
Recorded1982
StudioEddy Offord Studio, East Point, Georgia
GenreExperimental rock
Length45:20
LabelLandslide Records
LD-1006
ProducerEddy Offord, The Late Bronze Age
The Late Bronze Age chronology
Outside Looking Out
(1980) 		Isles of Langerhan
(1982)
Bruce Hampton chronology
Outside Looking Out
(1980) 		Isles of Langerhan
(1982) 		Arkansas
(1987)

Isles of Langerhan is the second and final album by The Late Bronze Age, a collaboration between musicians Bruce Hampton and Billy McPherson. It was recorded in 1982, and was released on LP later that year by Landslide Records. In 2002, the album was reissued on CD by Terminus Records.[1][2][3]

On the album, Hampton appears as "Hampton B. Coles (Ret.)," and McPherson is listed as "Ben 'Pops' Thornton." Additional musicians are bassist Ricky Keller, listed as "Lincoln Metcalfe," and drummer Jerry Fields, listed as "Bubba Phreon."[3] The album was produced by Eddy Offord, best known for his work on albums by Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Yes.[4] Cover art is credited to James Flournoy Holmes, and is based on the artist's "vision of having a girl throw water in the air and catching it on film."[4][5]

The album title is a misspelled reference to the regions of the pancreas known as islets of Langerhans. The song of the same name includes a line that reads "I'd rather be in the Isles of Langerhan."[6]

  1. ^ Grillo, Jerry (2021). The Music and Mythocracy of Col. Bruce Hampton: A Basically True Biography. University of Georgia Press. p. 179.
  2. ^ "Isles of Langerhan: Col. Bruce Hampton: Releases". AllMusic. Retrieved August 2, 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Col. Bruce Hampton". Landslide Records. Retrieved August 2, 2022.
  4. ^ a b "Isles of Langerhan: Col. Bruce Hampton: Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved August 2, 2022.
  5. ^ Emerson, Bo (March 1, 2010). "Flournoy Holmes channels music into vision". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved August 2, 2022.
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