The Spirit of Autumn Past is the 2nd album by rock band Mostly Autumn

Mostly Autumn

Mostly Autumn is a British band, producing music heavily influenced by classic 1970s rock. The group formed in 1996, and have built their reputation through constant touring, never signing to a major label. The group's early influences were Genesis, Renaissance and Pink Floyd, and folk music...

. It is the only Mostly Autumn

Mostly Autumn

Mostly Autumn is a British band, producing music heavily influenced by classic 1970s rock. The group formed in 1996, and have built their reputation through constant touring, never signing to a major label. The group's early influences were Genesis, Renaissance and Pink Floyd, and folk music...

 album to feature drummer Rob McNeil. It is the last album to feature violinist Bob Faulds and bassist Stuart Carver but the first to feature Angela Goldthorpe as a full member of the band. Also, this is the first Mostly Autumn

Mostly Autumn

Mostly Autumn is a British band, producing music heavily influenced by classic 1970s rock. The group formed in 1996, and have built their reputation through constant touring, never signing to a major label. The group's early influences were Genesis, Renaissance and Pink Floyd, and folk music...

 album to feature multi-instrumentalist Troy Donockley

Troy Donockley

Troy Donockley is an English composer and multi-instrumentalist most known for his playing of uillean pipes.- Early life and career :...

. He has guested on many of their albums since.

Track listing

1. "Winter Mountain" (B Josh/R Josh) – 6:55
2. "This Great Blue Pearl" (Josh) – 5:41
3. "Pieces of Love" (Josh) – 4:15
4. "Please" (Findlay/Josh/Jennings) – 6:10
5. "Evergreen" (Findlay/Josh) – 8:00
6. "Styhead Tarn" (Josh) – 3:32
7. "Shindig" (Faulds) – 3:07
8. "Blakey Ridge/When Waters Meet" (Josh/Faulds) – 2:12
9. "Underneath the Ice (Troubled Dreams)" (Josh) – 3:49
10. "Through the Window" (Josh) – 4:41
11. "The Spirit of Autumn Past - Part 1" (Jennings) – 2:43
12. "The Spirit of Autumn Past - Part 2" (Findlay/Josh/Jennings) – 6:30
13. "The Gap Is Too Wide" (Jennings) – 11:37

Credits (directly from sleeve notes)

• Bryan Josh
  Bryan Josh
  Bryan Josh is a multi-instrumentalist who is the founder of British progressive rock band Mostly Autumn. While primarily being the band's lead singer and lead guitarist, he has performed on many other instruments in the studio, which include the bass guitar, piano and keyboards...
  
   – lead and backing vocals, lead,rhythm,acoustic,12 string guitars, E-Bow
  E-Bow
  The EBow or ebow is a hand-held, battery-powered electronic device for playing the electric guitar, invented by Greg Heet in 1969...
  
  
• Heather Findlay – lead and backing vocals, Acoustic/12 String Guitars, bodhrán
  Bodhrán
  The bodhrán is an Irish frame drum ranging from 25 to 65 cm in diameter, with most drums measuring 35 to 45 cm . The sides of the drum are 9 to 20 cm deep. A goatskin head is tacked to one side...
  
  , tambourine
  Tambourine
  The tambourine or marine is a musical instrument of the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though some variants may not have a head at all....
  
  
• Iain Jennings
  Iain Jennings
  Iain Jennings is a keyboard player, known for being a member of the progressive rock band's Mostly Autumn and Breathing Space .-Breathing Space:*Coming Up for Air...
  
   – keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  , Hammond organ
  Hammond organ
  The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s it became a standard keyboard...
  
  , backing vocals
• Angela Goldthorpe – flute
  Flute
  The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
  
  , high and low whistles
• Liam Davison – rhythm, acoustic, 12 string guitars, slide guitar
  Slide guitar
  Slide guitar or bottleneck guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar. The term slide refers to the motion of the slide against the strings, while bottleneck refers to the original material of choice for such slides: the necks of glass bottles...
  
  s, backing vocals
• Bob Faulds – violin
  Violin
  The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
  
  s; 5 string ZETA violin
• Stuart Carver – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Rob McNeil – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  

With:

• Troy Donockley
  Troy Donockley
  Troy Donockley is an English composer and multi-instrumentalist most known for his playing of uillean pipes.- Early life and career :...
  
   - Uillean pipes (Track 13)
• Marissa Claugh - cello
  Cello
  The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
  
  (10 and 13)