🎵 AotW Andy Summers & Robert Fripp - BEWITCHED (SP-5011)

[LPJim]

Andy Summers & Robert Fripp
BEWITCHED
A&M SP-5011

1 Parade 3:01
2 What Kind Of Man Reads PlayboyComposed By – Andy Summers, Robert Fripp 11:12
3 Begin The DayComposed By – Andy Summers, Robert Fripp 3:33
4 Train 4:33
5 Bewitched 3:53
6 TribeComposed By – Andy Summers, Robert Fripp 3:23
7 MaquillageComposed By – Andy Summers, Robert Fripp 2:16
8 Guide 2:34
9 Forgotten Steps 3:57
10 Image And LikenessComposed By – Andy Summers, Robert Fripp 1:30

• Bass – Chris Childs, Sara Lee
• Composed By – Andy Summers (tracks: 1, 4, 5, 8, 9)
• Design [Sleeve], Art Direction – Andy Summers, Michael Ross (3)
• Drums – Paul Beavis
• Engineer – Gary Jones, Tony Arnold
• Mastered By – Ian Cooper
• Mastered By [Us] – Bob Carbone
• Mixed By – Andy Summers, Tony Arnold
• Painting [Cover Painting, "tribe"] – Antoni Tàpies
• Photography By – Andy Summers
• Producer – Andy Summers
• Saxophone – Chris Winter (4)
• Synthesizer [Roland Gr700 & 300, Jupiter 6, Jx 3p], Sequenced By [Msq 700 Sequencer, Tr909 Drum Machine], Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Percussion, Loops, Other [Water Bucket] – Andy Summers, Robert Fripp
• Tabla – Jesse Lota

Tracks 9 and 10 are indexed as one track despite being listed separately on the sleeve.
Recorded in spurts April/May 1984 at Arnie's Shack, England.
Originally mastered at The Townhouse, London.
Mastered in the US at A+M Mastering Studios.
CD is made in Japan (first pressing).

Entered the Billboard Top 200 on October 20. 1984
Charted for 5 weeks and peaked at # 155
Also available as CD 5011


JB

 

[Rudy]

This is one I've been meaning to give another listen to, but haven't gotten around to it. The combination of Fripp and Summers is interesting.

The only Summers album I know well is World Gone Strange. The opening track is almost a clone of the mid to late 80s Pat Metheny Group sound, even down to a piano soloist dialed into the Lyle Mays style. "Bacchante" was the radio hit from this album.

 

[Mr Bill]

This was their second A&M collaboration. I didn't care for it as much as their first, but it's still pretty good. If it wasn't on A&M it could easily have fit into IRS Records NoSpeak series!

--Mr Bill