''One Armed Bandit'' is the second studio album by the Belgian rock band
Zornik
Zornik is a Belgian rock music, rock band. It was formed in 1999 by singer and guitarist Koen Buyse, drummer Marijn Horemans and bass guitarist Kristof Vanduren.
History
The band made it in 1999 to the finals of HUMO's Rock Rally rock contest, u ...
. It was released in 2004 via
Parlophone
Parlophone Records Limited (also known as Parlophone Records and Parlophone) is a record label founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon. The British branch of the label was founded on 8 August 1923 as the Parloph ...
. Recording sessions took place at Temple Studios in
Malta
Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea, between Sicily and North Africa. It consists of an archipelago south of Italy, east of Tunisia, and north of Libya. The two ...
. Production was handled by Phil Vinall with Koen Buyse serving as co-producer.
The album repeated the success of the previous album, ''
The Place Where You Will Find Us'', climbing to first place in the Belgian
Ultratop
Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium. Ultratop is a non-profit organization, created in 1995 on the initiative of the Belgian Entertainment Association (BEA), the Belgian member organiz ...
hit parade in the
Flanders
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region. The remixed version of off the album's second single, "Scared of Yourself" done by
Peter Luts, reached number three on the Ultratop 50 Singles (Flemish chart).
Track listing
Personnel
*Koen Buyse – songwriter, vocals,
guitar
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,
keyboards,
arranger
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, co-producer
*Bas Remans –
bass guitar
The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...
*Davy Deckmijn –
drums
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,
percussion
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*Alison Galea – backing vocals
(track 5)
*Joanne Aquila –
violin
The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...
(tracks: 1, 2, 4, 12)
*Jean Pierre Micallef-Grimaud – violin
(tracks: 1, 2, 4, 12)
*Paul Micallef-Grimaud –
cello
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(tracks: 1, 2, 4, 12)
*Phil Vinall – producer, mixing
*Guiseppe Fellegara – engineering
*Chris Blair –
mastering
*Koen Bauters – photography
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
External links
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2004 albums
Zornik albums
Parlophone albums