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A1	Iron Blossom	1:46
A2	Trumpets On The Mountains / Off To Work / "Unreal City"	3:50
A3	The Loyang Tractor Factory	4:14
A4	Rivers	7:34
A5	Battersea Rise Written-By [Co-Written] – Ray Russell	4:11
B1	Skill And Sweat	3:28
B2	The Ortolan Bunting (A Sparrow's Fall)	3:47
B3	The Inexorable Sequence Guitar [Solo] – Phil Manzanera	7:18
B4	A Song For Friendship (The Renmin Hotel)	3:14
B5	Alloy Blossom - Trumpets In The Suburbs	4:05
B6	Green And Gold	2:26

Credits

• Arranged By [Strings & Brass], Conductor – Ray Russell
• Bass – Mo Foster, Tony Stevens
• Drums – Peter Van Hooke
• Drums, Timpani, Gong – Paul Thompson
• Engineer [Assistant At Roundhouse] – John Gallen
• Engineer, Producer [Assistant] – Phill Brown
• Flute, Flute [Chinese Reed Flute] – Tim Wheater
• Guitar – Ray Russell
• Mastered By – John Dent
• Painting – Eric Scott
• Photography By – Theo Bergstrom
• Photography By [CD Reissue] – Sandro Hyams
• Photography By [Graphics] – Martin Poole
• Producer – Andy Mackay
• Producer [Assistant], Artwork By [Cover] – Jane Mackay
• Saxophone, Oboe, Cor Anglais, Tin Whistle, Flageolet, Piano, Synthesizer – Andy Mackay
• Synthesizer, Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes] – Chris Parren
• Trumpet [D Trumpet] – Michael Laird
• Violin [Solo] – Gavin Wright*
• Written-By – Andy Mackay

Notes

Recorded at Basing Street and Sawmills Recording Studios, March - July 1978
Mixed at Roundhouse Studios, 1978

Record under licence with Mercury

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Side A): MIP-9321 A 2
• Matrix / Runout (Side B): MIP-9321 B 2

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
26 448 XOT	Andy Mackay	Resolving Contradictions ‎(LP, Album)	Bronze	26 448 XOT	Netherlands	1978
26 448 XOT	Andy Mackay	Resolving Contradictions ‎(LP, Album)	Bronze	26 448 XOT	France	1978
26 448 XOT	Andy Mackay	Resolving Contradictions ‎(LP, Album)	Bronze	26 448 XOT	Germany	1978
EXPAL 5	Andy Mackay	Resolving Contradictions ‎(LP, Album, RE)	Expression Records	EXPAL 5	UK	1990
VICP-70	Andy Mackay	Resolving Contradictions ‎(CD, Album)	Victor	VICP-70	Japan	1990