Annotation
Additional credits:
Assistant engineers: Dom Morley, Rico Petrillo, Matt Paul, Rohan Onraet, Will Usher, Iain Gore, Gareth Cobb and Dario Dendi.
Track 2 contains sample from "It's All Over" by Walter Jackson (written by Curtis Mayfield).
Programming: Richard Robson except 'Keys to the World' Richard Robson and Chris Weston, however it is not clear to me whether Robson programmed every single track on the album thus I added it on release level.
Bruce White performed electric viola on track 1. (now as performed viola AR)
The London Metropolitan Orchestra (performed strings): David Juritz, Andrew Haveron, Martin Burgess, Ben Nabarro, Fenella Barton, Laura Mellhuish, Richard George, Matthew Ward, Helen Hathorn, Tom Kemp, Debbie Widdup, Rachel Roberts, Edward Vanderspar, Andy Brown, oel Hunter, Nick Cooper, Chris Vanderspar, Cathy Giles, Jonathan Tunnell, Chris Fish and Nick Holland.
"The Big Bang" painting by Sonny Ashcroft (could be Richard's son, he was however born on 2000 and would be 6 at the time of this album's release)
Tracklist
| CD 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Title | Rating | Length |
| 1 | Why Not Nothing?
| 4:09 | |
| 2 | Music Is Power
| 3:58 | |
| 3 | Break the Night With Colour
| 3:57 | |
| 4 | Words Just Get in the Way
| 4:54 | |
| 5 | Keys to the World
| 4:43 | |
| 6 | Sweet Brother Malcolm
| 4:52 | |
| 7 | Cry Til the Morning
| 5:05 | |
| 8 | Why Do Lovers?
| 4:46 | |
| 9 | Simple Song
| 4:06 | |
| 10 | World Keeps Turning
| 3:55 | |
Credits
Release
| design/illustration: | Richard Ashcroft Traffic (graphic design agency) |
|---|---|
| photography: | Max Dodson |
| mixer: | Chris Potter (UK producer/mixer, Z Management, worked with The Verve and Richard Ashcroft) |
| additional engineer: | Gareth Cobb Dario Dendi Iain Gore Dom Morley Rohan Onraet Matt Paul Rico Petrillo Will Usher |
| recording engineer: | Chris Potter (UK producer/mixer, Z Management, worked with The Verve and Richard Ashcroft) Chris West (UK studio personnel) |
| programming: | Richard Robson |
| editor: | Andy Baldwin (of Metropolis Mastering) Dan Massey |
| strings arranger: | Julian Kershaw |
| viola arranger: | Richard Ashcroft |
| mastering: | Tony Cousins (mastering engineer) |
| bass: | Martyn Campbell John Giblin Arnie Somogyi |
| bass, guitar family and mandolin: | Terry Britten |
| cello: | Nick Cooper (UK cellist) |
| guitar and keyboard: | Richard Ashcroft |
| membranophone: | Gerry Conway Peter Salisbury (English drummer and co-founder of The Verve) Steve Sidelnyk |
| piano: | Martin Slattery |
| strings: | London Metropolitan Orchestra |
| vocals: | Richard Ashcroft |
| Discogs: | https://www.discogs.com/release/885825 [info] |
|---|---|
| ASIN: | UK: B000CBVMH2 [info] |
Release group
| associated singles/EPs: | Break the Night With Colour |
|---|
| Wikipedia: | en: Keys to the World [info] |
|---|---|
| Discogs: | https://www.discogs.com/master/78601 [info] |
| reviews: | https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/94dp [info] |
| Wikidata: | Q781428 [info] |
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