gatefold cover in vg+ condition.storage wear, edge e pics. Quad remix done at Sound Techniques Studios, London by Victor Gamm, Morgan Robin Black, Roger Quested, AIR Alan Harris except for "Bad Penny" and "Music" done at A&M Studios, Hollywood by Marv Bornstein and engineered by Bart Chiate. this is the lp record cat stevens - buddha and the chocolate box. Like Foreigner, Buddha and the Chocolate Box is one of the only Cat Stevens albums to boast a genuine discrete quad mix, and it's also notable for being the only known (at time of writing) non-Jethro Tull quad mix credited to Robin Black. Like its predecessor, Buddha and the Chocolate Box reached #3 in the US charts, but did better on the singles charts, yielding the #10 single Oh Very Young and the top-40 single Ready. It also saw him return to the more concise pop-folk structure of his earlier work, while at the same time pointing toward the increased influence that spirituality would play in his life in the years to come. After the brass heavy 'Foreigner' released one year earlier in 1973, 'Buddha and the Chocolate Box' seems like an attempt to return to Cat Stevens previous style but not quite as folky as 'Catch Bull at Four'. He’s not folk, he’s not rock, he’s not pop and that’s how I base my writing. What I love about him is the fact that he’s not pigeon-holed. I grew up listening to Cat Stevens my mum used to play it all the time. Released in March, 1974, Buddha and the Chocolate Box saw Cat Stevens reuniting with producer Paul Samwell-Smith after self-producing Foreigner. 'Buddha and the Chocolate Box' is very heavy on electric keyboard and angelic female back up voices. Buddha AND the Chocolate Box is a Cat Stevens’ album, released in 1974.
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