''Angels and Daemons at Play'' is the sixth full-length studio

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by the Norwegian

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. The album was originally released as three EP's; "Babyscooter" (released January 27), "Have Spacesuit Will Travel" (February 3) and "Lovelight" (February 10). Only 500 copies were pressed of each. It was later also released as a single CD and on

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, the latter featuring the two bonus tracks "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel" (from the EP of the same name), and "Back to Source" (to be released on the ''Ozone'' EP the following year). The cover art was made by

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. It was in the Norwegian charts for 5 weeks, reaching a peak of #2.

Track listings

Single CD version

Double LP version

Side 1

Side 2

Side 3

Side 4

The original EPs

Babyscooter # "Sideway Spiral" – 2:33 # "Walking on the Water" – 4:19 # "Heartattack Mac" – 7:41 # "Pills Powders + Passion Plays" – 3:24 # "In the Family" – 5:24 Have Spacesuit Will Travel # "Un Chien d'Espace" – 13:40 # "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel" – 13:51 # "Ohm's Concerto for Alto and Soprano Saw" – 1:38 Lovelight # "Sideway Spiral II" – 3:21 # "Like Always" – 3:39 # "Stalemate" – 4:55 # "Starmelt/Lovelight" – 3:30 # "Timothy's Monster" – 4:16 # "Atlantis Swing" - 1:08

Songwriters

"Ohm's Concerto for Alto and Soprano Saw" – O.H. Moe;
"Sideway Spiral I", "Like Always", "Back to Source" – Ryan/Sæther;
"Walking on the Water", "Pills, Powders + Passion Plays", "In the Family", "Stalemate" – Sæther;
"Heartattack Mac", "Sideway Spiral II", "Starmelt/Lovelight", "Timothy's Monster", "Un Chien D'espace" – Gebhardt/Ryan/Sæther;
"Have Spacesuit, Will Travel" – Gebhardt/Ryan/Sæther/Henlein
"Atlantis Swing" – unknown, but possibly Gebhardt/Ryan/Sæther/Fagervik

Performers

Bent Sæther Bent Sæther (born 18 February 1969 in Oslo, Norway) is the bass guitarist and lead vocalist of the Norwegian psychedelic rock band Motorpsycho from the start in 1989. Background Sæther grew up in an apartment complex in Ammerud before mov ...

— vocals, bass, electric & acoustic guitars, piano, mellotron, rhodes, moog taurus, percussion; drum solo on "Sideway Spiral I" *

Hans Magnus Ryan Hans Magnus Ryan, alias "Snah", (born 31 December 1969 in Trondheim, Norway) is a Norwegian rock musician (guitar & vocals), known as front figure of the band Motorpsycho. Career In 1989 Ryan and bassist Bent Sæther together with drummer ...

— vocals, electric & acoustic guitars, bass, double bass, piano, organ, vibraphone, moog taurus, percussion; drums on "Atlantic Swing" *

Håkon Gebhardt Håkon Gebhardt (born 21 June 1969 in Trondheim, Norway) is a Norwegian musician, multi-instrumentalist and record producer living in Trondheim. Career Gebhardt developed his musical interests when he attended the Music program at Kongsba ...

— drums, percussion, banjo, piano, vocals *Ole Henrik Moe — alto + soprano saw, piano, violin *

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— oscillators, echoplex, reverators, ring modulators *Morten Fagervik — guitar on "Atlantis Swing"

References

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