Sefronia is the eighth album by singer-songwriter Tim Buckley, released in September 1973.
Production The album was produced by Denny Randell. It was recorded at Paramount Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California. Other tracks were recorded at Record Plant, in New York, and at Devonshire Sound Studios in North Hollywood.
Critical reception AllMusic wrote that Buckley's "voice isn't as stunning as usual on his next-to-last album, but the bigger problem is the material, which is usually forced and pedestrian." Trouser Press wrote: "Denny Randell’s anachronistic-on-impact LA white-soul production, which pours syrupy strings over several numbers, is hardest to digest on poorly chosen middle-of-the-road love songs that didn’t suit Buckley at all." NME declared that the album is "widely agreed to be Buckley’s most over-produced and underwhelming effort."
Track listing
Side One "Dolphins" (Fred Neil) – 3:10 "Honey Man" (Larry Beckett, Tim Buckley) – 4:10 "Because of You" (Beckett, Buckley) – 4:25 "Peanut Man" (Fred Freeman, Harry Nehls) – 2:52 "Martha" (Tom Waits) – 3:10
Side Two "Quicksand" (Buckley) – 3:22 "I Know I'd Recognize Your Face" (Letty Jo Baron, Denny Randell) – 3:58 "Stone in Love" (Buckley) – 3:27 "Sefronia: After Asklepiades, After Kafka" (Beckett, Buckley) – 3:15 "Sefronia: The King's Chain" (Beckett, Buckley) – 2:23 "Sally, Go 'Round the Roses" (Lona Stevens, Zell Sanders) – 3:43
Personnel Tim Buckley – guitar, vocals Lee Underwood – guitar Joe Falsia – guitar Bob Rafkin – guitar Marcia Waldorf, Sharon Beard, Myrna Matthews, Lisa Roberts – backing vocals Bernie Mysior – bass guitar Reinhold Press – bass guitar Mark Tiernan – keyboards Denny Randell – keyboards, producer, arrangements Tom Scott – tenor saxophone Fred Selden – flute Earl Dumler – English horn Larry Bunker – percussion King Errisson – percussion, congas, tambourine Ken Watson – percussion, timpani Buddy Helm – drums David Blumberg – string arrangements Technical Greg Venable, Kerry McNabb, Larry Hirsch, Roger Dollarhide, Roy Cicala – engineers Cal Schenkel – art direction Ed Caraeff – cover photography
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