Nomzamo (album)
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Nomzamo is the fourth studio album by British
United Kingdom
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 progressive rock
Progressive rock
Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...

 band IQ
IQ (band)
IQ are a British neo-progressive rock band founded by Mike Holmes and Martin Orford in 1981 following the dissolution of their original band The Lens...

, released in 1987. The album was the first IQ album recorded without lead singer Peter Nicholls
Peter Nicholls (musician)
Peter Nicholls is the lead singer of the progressive rock band IQ. Nicholls left the band briefly in the late 1980s to form the alternative rock band Niadem's Ghost but returned in 1991...

, who left the band in 1986 to return in 1990.

Track listing

  1. "No Love Lost" – 5:57
  2. "Promises (As Years Go By)" – 4:29
  3. "Nomzamo" – 6:58
  4. "Still Life" – 5:55
  5. "Passing Strangers" – 3:47
  6. "Human Nature" – 9:37
  7. "Screaming" – 4:05
  8. "Common Ground" – 6:56

Bonus tracks:

  1. "Colourflow" – 5:26
  2. "No Love Lost" (Piano / Vocal version) – 4:12
  3. "Common Ground" (live) – 6:34
  • All music written by IQ. All lyrics written by P. L. Menel.

Personnel

  • P. L. Menel – 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...

  • Mike Holmes – electric
    Electric guitar
    An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

     and acoustic guitar
    Acoustic guitar
    An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...

    ,
  • Martin Orford – 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...

    , backing vocals
    Backing vocalist
    A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...

  • Tim Esau – bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    , backing vocals
  • Paul Cook – drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....


plus
  • Jules – vocals (Colourflow)
  • Micky Groome
    Micky Groome
    Micky Groome is an English bassist, guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and producer.- Early life and career :...

     – backing vocals
  • Ray Carless – sax
    Saxophone
    The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...

  • Phillip Erb – EMU II programming
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