D.S. Al Coda is the third and final album by the progressive rock and jazz fusion group National Health. It is a tribute to former member Alan Gowen, who died of leukaemia in May 1981, and consists solely of compositions written by him. Most of these had not been recorded in the studio before, although "TNTFX" and "Arriving Twice" both appeared earlier on albums by Gowen's other band Gilgamesh.

D.S. Al Coda
Studio album by
Released1982
RecordedOctober–November, 1981
GenreJazz fusion, progressive rock, Canterbury scene
Length46:14
LabelBlueprint Records / Floating World
ProducerNational Health, Nick Bradford
National Health chronology
Of Queues and Cures
(1978)
D.S. Al Coda
(1982)

Track listing

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All tracks are written by Alan Gowen

No.TitleLength
1."Portrait Of A Shrinking Man"5:35
2."TNTFX"3:12
3."Black Hat"4:52
4."I Feel A Night Coming On"6:37
5."Arriving Twice"2:22
6."Shining Water"8:52
7."Tales Of A Damson Knight"1:56
8."Flanagan's People"5:18
9."Toad Of Toad Hall"7:30

Personnel

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National Health

Additional musicians

References

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