Album: Trip the Witch
Artist: Trip the Witch
2021 Bandcamp
Digital

Jon Anderson: vocals (1)
Tom Bukovac: electric guitar (1-5, 7-10), acoustic guitar (3, 6), bass (1, 8), keys (5), piano (1, 3, 8), Fender Rhodes (2), Mellotron (8), vibes (3-5), drums (8), vocals (10)
Dean DeLeo: electric guitar (all), acoustic guitar (2, 4, 9, 10), mandolin (1), bass (4, 7, 10), keys (5, 10)
Ian Fitchuk: drums (1, 4, 5, 8)
Steve Mackey: bass (2, 3, 5, 6, 9)
Shannon Forrest: drums (2, 3, 6, 9)
Ryan Williams: B3 (5)
Chris McHugh: drums (7)
Matt Rollings: Wurlitzer (9)
Dave Eggar: cello (9)
Sean Claire: violin (9), viola (9)
Jason Sutter: drums (10)


Produced by Trip The Witch
Mixed by Williams
Engineered by Williams, Forrest, Konrad Snyder, Mills Logan, Paul Moak
Strings recorded and engineered by Mike Stephenson
Mastered by JJ Golden at Golden Mastering
Managed by Jeff Varner & Yunus Church at Revelation Management Group


Tracks:
1. "Saturn We Miss You (feat. Jon Anderson)" (3:32)
2. "Dressed to Kill Myself" (4:07)
3. "Wall of Sound" (4:10)
4. "Fell from the Floor" (3:47)
5. "Planet TD1" (4:56)
6. "Surfside Lounge" (2:57)
7. "We Lived Here" (5:15)
8. "Space Wagon" (3:00)
9. "The Bird Returns" (3:55)
10. "Black Light/Reclaim My Time" (5:49)

String arrangement by Eggar (9)



Notes: No writing credits are given, although it's implied the album is all by Bukovac/DeLeo, except (1) by Bukovac/DeLeo/Anderson. Trip the Witch was a remote collaboration done during a COVID-19 lockdown between Stone Temple Pilots guitarist and songwriter DeLeo and Nashville session player Bukovac. DeLeo saw Bukovac's YouTube channel, while Bukovac was a Ston Temple Pilots fan. The two started talking on the phone, got on and decided to make an album via file sharing videos. Both also describes themselves as Yes fans. In the album description, DeLeo explained, "When Tom showed me 'Saturn We Miss You,' we thought Jon would be the perfect voice for it[.] So I got his email address and sent him the track, and I attached the song title to it." After a few days: "And then one day I opened my email, and he had sent it back – with vocals. I immediately called him and expressed to him the beauty of what he did, and all that he and his music means to Tom and I. He's such a huge part of our musical upbringing." Bukovac added, "What we really didn't expect was that Jon came up with all these lyrics based around the title, too. Instead of just responding, 'Yeah, boys, I'll help you on this track...' he wrote the lyrics, sang them, recorded it, sent it back and said, 'What do you think of this, lads?'"

(1) was released digitally 3 Sep 2021 with no prior warning, with the album released 10 Sep. (HP, 13 Sep 21)

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