Artist: Patrick Woodroffe / Dave Greenslade
Title: The Pentateuch Of The Cosmogony
First Released: 1979
Year of this Pressing: 1979
Label: EMI
Catalog Number: EMSP 332
Country of Origin: UK
Barcode/UPC: None
Condition of Vinyl, Visual Inspection: EXC
Play graded: N/A
Condition of Cover: Book is EXC, very minor edge wear, no writing or bent pages, very nice condition
Inner Sleeve/Inserts: Original black inner sleeves
Genre/Style: New Age, Prog Rock, 47 pages of illustrations and text!
Description/Notes: This is a wild book.
Discogs says "A hardback book and double vinyl album 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. "
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