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The Flower Kings: Flower Power

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On November 16, 1999, “InsideOut” label released “Flower Power”, the fourth  Flower Kings (The) studio album. It was recorded November 1998 – June 1999, and was produced by Don Azzaro.

Personnel:

  • Roine Stolt- vocals, guitars, keyboards, bass guitar
  • Tomas Bodin- keyboards
  • Michael Stolt- bass guitar
  • Jaime Salazar- drums
  • Hasse Bruniusson- percussion
  • Hasse Fröberg- vocals
  • Ulf Wallander- soprano saxophone
  • Tomas Bodin – assistant engineer, mixing assistant
  • Tomas Eriksson – pre-mastering engineer
  • Dexter Frank Jr. – engineer
  • Stefan Bodin – photography
  • Lilian Forsberg – photography
  • Per Nordin – photography
  • Roine Stolt – photography

Track listing:

Disc One

Garden of Dreams – Tomas Bodin, Roine Stolt

  1. Dawn
  2. Simple Song
  3. Business Vamp
  4. All You Can Save
  5. Attack of the Monster Briefcase
  6. Hope Goes to Wall Street
  7. Did I Tell You?
  8. Garden of Dreams
  9. Don’t Let the d’Evil In
  10. Love is the Word
  11. There’s No Such Night
  12. The Mean Machine
  13. Dungeon of the Deep
  14. Indian Summer
  15. Sunny Lane
  16. Gardens Revisited
  17. Shadowland
  18. The Final Deal

Disc two

  1. Deaf, Numb & Blind
  2. Stupid Girl
  3. Corruption
  4. Power of Kindness – Tomas Bodin
  5. Psychedelic Postcard
  6. Hudson River Sirens Call 1998
  7. Magic Pie – Hasse Fröberg
  8. Painter
  9. Calling Home
  10. Afterlife – Tomas Bodin, Roine Stolt
  11. End of a Century – bonus track

Richard Ashcroft: Keys To The World

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On January 23, 2006, “Parlaphone” label released “Keys to the World”, the third Richard Ashcroft studio album. It was recorded in 2005, at the “State of the Ark”, and was produced by Chris Potter and Richard Ashcroft.

Personnel:

  • Richard Ashcroft – vocals, guitar, keyboards, design
  • Terry Britten – guitar, mandolin, bass
  • Martin Slattery – piano
  • Arnie Somogyi, John Giblin, Martin Campbell – bass
  • Gerry Conway, Pete Salisbury, Steve Sidelnyk – drums
  • Jon Hunt – saxophone, flute
  • Nick Cooper – cello
  • Andrew Haveron, Andy Brown, Ben Nabarro, Cathy Giles, Chris Fish, Chris Vanderspar, David Juritz, Debbie Widdup, Edward Vanderspar, Fenella Barton, Helen Hathorn, Joel Hunter, Jonathan Tunnell, Laura Mellhuish, Martin Burgess, Matthew Ward, Nick Holland, Nick Cooper, Rachel Roberts, Richard George, Tom Kemp – strings
  • Julian Kershaw – string arrangements
  • Chris West – programming, recording
  • Dario Dendi, Dom Morley, Gareth Cobb, Iain Gore, Matt Paul, Rico Petrillo, Rohan Onraet, Will Usher – engineer
  • Andy Baldwin, Dan Massey – editing
  • Chris Potter – programming, recording, mixing
  • Tony Cousins – mastering
  • Sonny Ashcroft – painting
  • Max Dodson – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Richard Ashcroft, except where noted.

  1. Why Not Nothing?
  2. Music Is Power – Richard Ashcroft, Curtis Mayfield
  3. Break the Night with Colour
  4. Words Just Get in the Way
  5. Keys to the World
  6. Sweet Brother Malcolm
  7. Cry Til the Morning
  8. Why Do Lovers?
  9. Simple Song
  10. World Keeps Turning