''Rite Now'' is the eighteenth solo album by

Julian Cope Julian David Cope (born 21 October 1957) is an English musician and author. He was the singer and songwriter in Liverpool post-punk band the Teardrop Explodes and has followed a solo career since 1983 in addition to working on musical side pro ...

, released in 2002. It is also the third album in the ''Rite'' series following the earlier albums ''

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'' (1992) and ''

Rite² ''Rite²'' is an ambient music album by Julian Cope, released in 1997. It is technically Cope's fourteenth solo album, but is also the follow-up to the earlier album '' Rite'' (released in 1992 and credited to "Julian Cope & Donald Ross Skinn ...

'' (1997). Mostly instrumental, the album features four "meditational funk-a-thons", as Cope's website describes them, combining funky

grooves Groove or Grooves may refer to: Music * Groove (music) * Groove (drumming) * The Groove (band), an Australian rock/pop band of the 1960s * The Groove (Sirius XM), a US radio station * Groove 101.7FM, a former Perth, Australia, radio station * ...

and

krautrock Krautrock (also called , German for ) is a broad genre of experimental rock that developed in West Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s among artists who blended elements of psychedelic rock, avant-garde composition, and electronic music, a ...

rhythms with wah-wah guitars and " cosmic" synthesizers."The S.P.A.C.E.R.O.C.K.E.R.’s Guide to Julian Cope"
(Aural Innovations magazine #23, April 2003) Retrieved 27 April 2018.

Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes. Musicians *

– bass, guitar, Mellotron 400, percussion, vocals *Anthony "Doggen" Foster – guitar ''(also performs pseudonymously as "Terry Dobbin" playing guitar and percussion)''"Q&A 2000ce — Cope Musicians & Cohorts"
Headheritage.co.uk. Retrieved 27 April 2018. *

Thighpaulsandra Timothy Lewis – best known by the stage name Thighpaulsandra – is a Welsh experimental musician and multi-instrumentalist, known mostly for performing on synthesizers and keyboards. He began his career working with Julian Cope in the late ...

– ARP 2600, Korg organ, Faerial 5 ''(also performs pseudonymously as "Cliff Cheerio" playing Hammond organ, percussion and Roland 77)''"Thighpaulsandra discography"
Brainwashed.com. Retrieved 27 April 2018. *

Donald Ross Skinner Donald Skinner is a guitarist, songwriter and producer primarily known for his work with Julian Cope. Skinner is commonly known by the name Donald Ross Skinner with the addition of the middle name of ''Ross'' attributed to him by Cope after Gle ...

– percussion, harmonica, organ, bass on "Ephaedra" *Kevin "Kevlar" Bales – drums *Adam Whittaker – digital, cassettes *John-Paul Braddock – digital, crystal machine Technical *Julian Cope – producer, directed by, photography, design *Flora Cocktail – design

References

External links

''Rite Now'' on Discogs.com
Retrieved on 27 April 2018. {{Authority control 2002 albums Julian Cope albums