Infos
Credits for first album and the three original demos:
Recorded at Sound Techniques Studios
Engineer - Vic Gamm
Assistant engineer - Steve Mayberry
Produced by David Hitchcock of Gruggy Woof Productions
Original album design and art direction by ROC advertising
Cover illustration by Anne Marie Anderson
Thanks to Fran Ashcroft for remastering
Reissue sleeve by Dale Simpson
Original album: copyright Cherry Red Records
Tony Durant - acoustic and electric guitar
Madeleine Bland - cello, piano, harmonium, backing vocals
Vanessa Hall-Smith - violin, backing vocals
Janet Rogers - violin, backing vocals
Mick Day - bass
Michael Gregory - drums, percussion
"Somnambulist"
Dylan Quinlan - vielle
Susan Kim - cello
Tony Durant - guitars, keys, vocals
"Rocks And Books"
Lucy Kong - backing vocals
Tony Durant - guitars, keys, vocals
"Fuchsia Song" - acousic version
Lidia Bara - violin
Emily Dufille - cello
Tony Durant - guitars, vocals, percussion
Isabel Durant - backing vocals
"The Band (Me And My Kites Vesion)"
Johan Svedmyr - drums
David Svedmyr - guitars, keys
Reine Fiske - guitar
Tony Durant - vocals
With: Lisa Isaksson, Kerin Engqvist, Oona Libens, Simon Svedmyr, Anna Myrsten, Mikael Lennholm, Joel Ohlund, Jennie Stabis, Billie Lindahl, Mattias Gustavsson & Maria Arnqvist
Originally released by Fruits de Mer Records (Regal Crabomophone winkel 12)
"The Waves"
Lidia Bara - violin
Emily Dufill - cello
Tony Durant - guitars, keys, vocals
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The full package comprises:
- a double LP - the original album, which was released on the Pegasus label in the UK and Kingdom in France, plus a second disc of early demos and new recordings of old songs, including a 15 minute demo recorded by the band before they signed to Pegasus that only exists on a slightly-worn acetate!
- a 15 minute DVD with Tony Durant talking about the album and what happened to him and Fuchsia after the initial release
- a 60" square fold-out poster of the original album cover, which was drawn by Anne Marie Anderson (who also designed Caravan's 'Land Of Grey And Pink')
- a 24pp A4 magazine, with Richard Morton Jack's comprehensive 'Flashback' feature and a reproduction of Tony's handwritten lyrics from the time
- a gatefold sleeve, with new sleevenotes written by Tony, including his desription of each track on the bonus album
- heavyweight colour vinyl
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Record label Fruits de Mer Records only credited on hype sticker on front
EAN-Nr. von Aufkleber
Pressed by Record Industry (Netherlands) → 22538 1A
Matrix:
(Side A): 22538 1A CRUSTACEAN 86
(Side B): 22538 1B CRUSTACEAN 86
(Side C): 22538 1C CRUSTACEAN 86
(Side D): 22538 1D CRUSTACEAN 86