Awakening is the second album by indietronica

Indietronica

Indietronica is a music genre that combines indie, electronica, rock and pop music. Typical instruments used in indietronica music are electronic keyboard, synthesizer, sampler and drum machine...

 group Iris, released in 2003. Awakening was the first album to feature Andrew Sega

Andrew Sega

Andrew Gregory Sega , also known by the moniker Necros, is an American musician best known for tracking modules in the 1990s demoscene as well as for composing music for several well-known video games...

, who added guitars and pushed the band's sound into a more experimental electronic direction.

History

After several shows that followed after Disconnect

Disconnect (album)

Disconnect is the first album by electropop group Iris, released in 2000. This album helped Iris win "Best Band" and "Best Album" awards at the American Synthpop Awards in 2000...

, Reagan Jones

Reagan Jones

Reagan Jones is an American singer-songwriter, best known as the lead singer of indietronica band Iris.Reagan Jones formed Iris with Matt Morris in 1993, and has since remained the original vocalist for the band....

 and Matthew Morris started having arguments about their musical direction. Morris was focused on his personal life, and he wasn't interested to go back into the studio for the second album. He met Andrew Sega

Andrew Sega

Andrew Gregory Sega , also known by the moniker Necros, is an American musician best known for tracking modules in the 1990s demoscene as well as for composing music for several well-known video games...

 through the original singer of CTRL Joel Willard in 2001, and told him that Jones was looking for someone new to work with. Sega and Jones started working on some test tracks, the first of which would later become "Unknown". They felt that the chemistry between the two worked out so well that they started working on the new record that would become Awakening.

Versions

In total there are 5 versions of this album.

Country	Year	Label	Number of Tracks	Notes
US	2003	Diffusion Records Diffusion Records Diffusion Records is an American independent record label founded by Andrew Sega in 2001. Initially started as a label for Sega's first Alpha Conspiracy album Cipher, Diffusion Records went on growing into a more full-featured label, so far releasing albums by artists such as Iris, CTRL, Low...	10	Limited edition. Sold out in a couple of weeks.
US	2003	Diffusion Records Diffusion Records Diffusion Records is an American independent record label founded by Andrew Sega in 2001. Initially started as a label for Sega's first Alpha Conspiracy album Cipher, Diffusion Records went on growing into a more full-featured label, so far releasing albums by artists such as Iris, CTRL, Low...	10	Current edition in US
Germany	2003	Infacted Recordings	10 + 3 Remixes	Different track order & 2 mixes by Andrew Sega Andrew Sega Andrew Gregory Sega , also known by the moniker Necros, is an American musician best known for tracking modules in the 1990s demoscene as well as for composing music for several well-known video games...  & 1 mix by Mat Morris
Poland	2003	MusicNet	10 + 1 Remix	1 mix by Mat Morris
Russia	2006	Q-Code Records	10 + 3 Remixes	Same as German version.

Track listing US

Track listing Europe

All European versions have their album artwork tinted magenta.

Personnel

• Reagan Jones
  Reagan Jones
  Reagan Jones is an American singer-songwriter, best known as the lead singer of indietronica band Iris.Reagan Jones formed Iris with Matt Morris in 1993, and has since remained the original vocalist for the band....
  
   - vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  , songwriting
  Songwriter
  A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
  
  , keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  
• Andrew Sega
  Andrew Sega
  Andrew Gregory Sega , also known by the moniker Necros, is an American musician best known for tracking modules in the 1990s demoscene as well as for composing music for several well-known video games...
  
   - keyboards, guitars
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , programming
  Programming (music)
  Programming is a form of music production and performance using electronic devices, often sequencers or computer programs, to generate music. Programming is used in nearly all forms of electronic music and in most hip hop music since the 1990s. It is also frequently used in modern pop and rock...
  
  , production
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
  

External links

• [ Allmusic review]