''X-communication'' is the seventh studio album by
jazz fusion
Jazz fusion (also known as jazz rock, jazz-rock fusion, or simply fusion) is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric gui ...
band
Brand X
Brand X were a British jazz rock band formed in London in 1974. They were initially active until 1980, followed by reformations between 1992–1999 and 2016–2021.
Despite sometimes being considered to be a Phil Collins side project (due t ...
, released in 1992.
It was the band's first studio release in more than a decade.
Track listing
All tracks written by
John Goodsall
John Goodsall (15 February 1953 – 10 November 2021As far as the exact date of death is concerned, numerous false statements are circulating on the internet. The only reliable reference is the photocopy of the death certificate provided by John ...
, except where noted.
#"Xanax Taxi" – 5:57
#"Liquid Time" – 4:39
#"Kluzinski Period"
( Percy Jones) – 7:00
#"Healing Dream" – 3:51
#"Mental Floss" – 3:17
#"Strangeness"
(Jones) – 3:23
#"A Duck Exploding"
(Goodsall, Jones) – 6:47
#"Message to You" – 0:25
#"Church of Hype"
(Jones) – 5:54
#"Kluzinski Reprise"
(Goodsall, Jones) – 4:25
Personnel
*
John Goodsall
John Goodsall (15 February 1953 – 10 November 2021As far as the exact date of death is concerned, numerous false statements are circulating on the internet. The only reliable reference is the photocopy of the death certificate provided by John ...
– guitars,
MIDI guitar
*
Percy Jones –
fretless bass
A fretless bass is an electric bass guitar whose neck lacks frets and thus is smooth like traditional string instruments, and like the neck of an acoustic double bass. While the fretless bass is played in all styles of music, it is most common in ...
, keyboards (6)
* Frank Katz – drums
Additional personnel
* Danny Wilding –
flute
The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...
(3, 10)
Production
* Gilad Amarillo – executive producer
* Doran Scarf – executive producer
* John Goodsall – producer
* Percy Jones – producer
* Mick Cantarella – engineer (1, 2, 3, 5-10), mixing
* Franz Pusch – engineer (4)
* Keith Lewis – second engineer (4)
* Jim Shelton – mastering at Europadisk (New York, NY)
* Laurence Horvitz – art direction, design
* Naomi Kaneda – cover photography
* Isaac Silman – design, inside and back photography
References
1992 albums
Brand X albums
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