Nigor Mortis is an album by Sananda Maitreya

Sananda Maitreya

Sananda Francesco Maitreya , better known by his former stage name Terence Trent D'Arby, is an American singer-songwriter who came to fame with his album Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby, released in July 1987, which included the singles "Wishing Well" and "Sign Your Name"...

 (tafka Terence Trent D'Arby). It is available as MP3

MP3

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 files and on CD format, exclusively from his on-line web store. The CD version is housed in a DVD keep case

Keep case

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 with an enclosed 8 page photo booklet.

The project was recorded in Milan

Milan

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, Italy

Italy

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, where the artist has lived since 2002, over the course of five studio sessions.

All songs are written, arranged, produced and performed by Sananda Maitreya. Two songs (With A Girl Like You and Angel (Not A Saint)) have the participation of Lucio Fabbri on fiddle

Fiddle

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 and banjo

Banjo

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. Maitreya plays the four basic instruments of rock music

Rock music

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: drums, bass, guitar and keyboards.

The name "Nigor Mortis" represents the state between rigor mortis

Rigor mortis

Rigor mortis is one of the recognizable signs of death that is caused by a chemical change in the muscles after death, causing the limbs of the corpse to become stiff and difficult to move or manipulate...

and "vigor mortis", from the stiffness of a corpse to the vitality of life.

An instrumental version of the album is also available, on MP3 only.

Track listing

1. "O Lovely Gwenita" - 3:18
2. "This Town" - 3:37
3. "With a Girl Like You" - 3:44
4. "I Never Knew How Much" - 3:39
5. "At the Crossroads" - 5:35
6. "A Wife Knows" - 3:27
7. "These Stones" - 2:51
8. "If I Just Stay With You" - 3:39
9. "Has It Been Too Quiet?" - 3:27
10. "Free Me" - 3:21
11. "I Don't Give a Fuck About You" - 2:57
12. "Mrs. Gupta" - 4:19
13. "Ooh Carolina" - 3:02
14. "Family Reunion" - 1:55
15. "Where Did the Money Go?" - 1:50
16. "Because You've Changed" - 3:18
17. "Superstar" - 3:03
18. "December in the Rain" - 3:05
19. "Angel (Not a Saint)" - 3:00
20. "What Would You Like?" - 3:44
21. "Cowboys & Injuries" - 2:03
22. "Priscilla" - 2:27
23. "The Lost Highway" - 3:47