Tenement Symphony
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Tenement Symphony is an album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by Marc Almond
Marc Almond
Marc Almond is an English singer-songwriter and musician, who originally found fame as half of the seminal synthpop/New Wave duo Soft Cell...

, released in 1991. It reached #39 in the UK Albums Chart
UK Albums Chart
The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...

 and includes the UK top 40 single
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

 "My Hand Over My Heart", top 20 "Jacky
Jacky (Jacques Brel song)
"Jacky" is a song written by Jacques Brel. He recorded the song on 2 November 1965, and it was released on his 1966 album Ces Gens-Là. The song was translated from French into English and retitled as "Jackie"....

",and the top 5 hit "The Days of Pearly Spencer".

Track listing

All tracks composed by Marc Almond; except where indicated
  1. "Meet Me In My Dream" (Almond, David Ball) (4:24)
  2. "Beautiful Brutal Thing" (5:02)
  3. "I've Never Seen Your Face" (Almond, Ball) (5:02)
  4. "Vaudeville and Burlesque" (6:52)
  5. "Champagne" (5:47)

Tenement Symphony


  1. "i. Prelude" (Ball) (0:23)
  2. "ii. Jacky
    Jacky (Jacques Brel song)
    "Jacky" is a song written by Jacques Brel. He recorded the song on 2 November 1965, and it was released on his 1966 album Ces Gens-Là. The song was translated from French into English and retitled as "Jackie"....

    " (Jacques Brel
    Jacques Brel
    Jacques Brel was a Belgian singer-songwriter who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following in France initially, and later throughout the world. He was widely considered a master of the modern chanson...

    , Gérard Jouannest) (4:49)
  3. "iii. What Is Love?" (5:04)
  4. "iv. Trois Chansons de Bilitis - Extract" (Claude Debussy
    Claude Debussy
    Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...

    ) (0:54)
  5. "v. The Days of Pearly Spencer
    The Days of Pearly Spencer
    The Days of Pearly Spencer is an compilation album by The Vietnam Veterans, released in 1988. It was the band's last full-length album before they broke up....

    " (Almond, David McWilliams) (4:22)
  6. "vi. My Hand Over My Heart" (Almond, Ball) (5:15)

Personnel

  • Marc Almond - vocals, arranger
  • Anne Dudley
    Anne Dudley
    Anne Dudley is an English composer and pop musician, and was the first BBC Concert Orchestra's Composer in Association in 2001. She has worked in both the classical and pop genres. She is perhaps best known, however, as one of the core members of the synthpop band Art of Noise and also as a film...

     - keyboards, arranger, orchestration
  • J.J. Belle - guitar
  • Sally Bradshaw - vocals
  • Betsy Cook - vocals
  • Mitch Dalton - guitar
  • Andy Duncan - drums, percussion, percussion programming
  • Trevor Horn
    Trevor Horn
    Trevor Charles Horn CBE is an English pop music record producer, songwriter, musician and singer. He was born in Houghton-le-Spring in north-east England....

     - organ, bass
  • Billy McGee - keyboards, arranger
  • Julian Mendelsohn - mixing
  • Richard Norris - percussion programming
  • Nick Plytas - piano
  • Lynda Richardson - choir master
  • Richard Riley - guitar
  • Philip Todd - soprano & tenor saxophone
  • Tim Weidner
    Tim Weidner
    Tim Weidner is an engineer and producer, best known for his work with Trevor Horn. He produced Yes's album Magnification and for Dead or Alive. He also did a Surround Sound mix for a DVD-A re-release of Yes's Fragile. He has done mixing for artists including Seal, Art of Noise and Captain. He has...

     - bass
  • Bruce Woolley
    Bruce Woolley
    Bruce Woolley is an English writer, performer, record producer and composer.- Early years :Bruce Woolley was born in Loughborough, England on 11 November 1953 and was educated at Loughborough Grammar School where he learned electric guitar, began to write songs and where he met his future wife,...

     - keyboards, vocals
  • Gavyn Wright
    Gavyn Wright
    Gavyn Wright is a British violinist and orchestra leader with the London Session Orchestra and Penguin Cafe Orchestra, best known for his orchestral arrangements on pop productions as well as numerous TV and movie soundtracks Gavyn Wright is a British violinist and orchestra leader with the London...

     - string conductor
  • Nigel Hine - programming
  • Julian Stringle - clarinet
  • Steve Rappaport - artwork
  • Inga Humpe - programming, vocals
  • Eric Caudieux - guitar, keyboards, programming
  • Max Loderbauer - programming
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