''The Robe'' is the third studio album released by English

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. It was the third and last album produced by Mike Stone. The Robe / Bonus Collection containing 2 discs and 23 songs was released in 1999.

Track listing

All songs written by Gary Hughes except where noted. # "The Robe" – 9:04 # "Bright On the Blade" – 4:51 # "Standing On the Edge of Time" – 5:03 (Gary Hughes, Vinny Burns) # "Virtual Reality" – 5:49 # "Arcadia" – 7:34 # "Battlelines" – 4:18 # "You're In My Heart" – 6:38 # "Fly Like an Eagle" – 7:13 # "Ten Fathoms Deep" – 7:10 # "Someday" – 7:58 (Gary Hughes, Vinny Burns) 2016 japanese SHM-CD remaster (AVALON MICP-11296) bonus track: #

"If Only For A Day" - 8:12

Personnel

* Gary Hughes –

vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

and programming * Vinny Burns – Lead

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

s and programming *John Halliwell – Rhythm guitars *Ged Rylands – keyboards *Greg Morgan –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

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percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

*Andrew Webb –

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 ...

*Jason Thanos –

backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are us ...

*Ray Brophy – backing vocals and programming *Ed Collins –

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...

and

flugelhorn The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet, but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B♭, though ...

*Dru Baker –

tenor A tenor is a type of male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types. It is the highest male chest voice type. Composers typically write music for this voice in the range from the second B below m ...

and

alto saxophone The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgians, Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in the key of E♭ ( ...

*Dave Chadwick – Voiceovers

Production

*Mixing – Mike Stone *Engineer – Ray Brophy *Additional Engineering – Audu Obaje, Tim Baxter and Royston Hollyer

Concepts

*The song "The Robe" depicts the quest of the escaping Christian Knights after the siege of Jerusalem, who were trying to find a safe hiding place for the robe used to wrap Christ's body following the Crucifixion. '' The Robe'' is also a novel about the Crucifixion written by Lloyd C. Douglas, from which several concepts and ideas were used.

References

External links

Heavy Harmonies page
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