Cat Stevens, Numbers. Vinyl, LP

A$ 26

$ 17

A$ 26 Sold For

Oct 31, 2021 Sold Date

Oct 24, 2021 Start Date

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Australia Country Of Seller

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Description

Cat Stevens, Numbers. Vinyl, LP.

Original pressing.

Unusual cut out windowin cover.

Complete withillustrated story booklet and printed inner sleeve.

Catalogue # L 35670

Postage

I'm happy to combinepostage if you purchase more than one Record. Two records can be posted for thesame price as one and the price only goes up by a couple of dollars per record.

I'm not interested inmaking money on postage and will only charge what it costs.

The album Numbers, subtitled "A Pythagorean Theory Tale," was based on a fictional planet in a far-off galaxy named Polygor. The album included a booklet with excerpts from a planned book of the same name written by Chris Bryant and Allan Scott. The booklet features pen-and-ink illustrations drawn by Stevens.

The concept of the album is a fantastic spiritual musical which is set on the planet Polygor. In the story there is a castle with a number machine. This machine exists to fulfill the sole purpose of the planet – to disperse numbers to the rest of the universe: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 (but notably not 0). The nine inhabitants of Polygor, the Polygons, are Monad, Dupey, Trezlar, Cubis, Qizlo, Hexidor, Septo, Octav, and Novim. As the last lines of the book say, they "followed a life of routine that had existed for as long as any could remember. ... It was, therefore, all the more shocking when on an ordinary day things first started to go wrong." The change takes the form of Jzero, who comes from nowhere as a slave and eventually confuses everybody with his simple truth.

Track listing

All the tracks were written by Cat Stevens. The original LP broke with tradition and called the second side "Side 0", a reference to Jzero.[original research?]