Album: When We Changed You
Artist: XNA
2013 Megalodon Multimedia/Cleopatra Recordings
CD
Adam Malin: keyboards
David Hussey: vocals, additional keyboards, flute, violin, classical
guitar
Danny Bryle: guitar
Scott Connor: drums
Billy Sherwood: bass, additional guitars
with Tonilyn Hornung: voice of the well (5)
Produced, recorded and mixed by Sherwood at CIRCA: HQ Studios
Additional recording at Chalice Well, Glastonbury, UK (fountain
SFX), Sand Canyon Studios, The Waiting Room, No Name
Mastered by Maor Appelbaum
Original paintings by JC Hussey; compass illustration by Judy
Merrell
Design & layout by Wombat Films, Inc.
Photography by
the band, Michi Sherwood, Andre Torng, Ellen Caranasos, Colin
Shields, Elisabeth Reinstrom
Manufactured by Megalodon Manufacturing
Tracks:
1. "At Childhood's Beginning (Overture)" [Malin/Hussey] (2:01)
2. "When We Changed You" [Malin/Hussey] (7:19)
3. "Banner of the Whyte Boar" [Hussey/Malin] (15:03)
4. "The Flying Dutchman" [Malin/Hussey/Connor] (9:28)
5. "The Vale of Avalon (For Chalice Well)" [Hussey/Malin] (7:08)
6. "Annapurna" [Malin/Hussey] (8:29)
7. "At Childhood's End" [Malin/Hussey] (16:06)
Arranged by XNA
Notes: This is the debut album from new band, XNA (initially
announced under the name Breathe), founded by David Hussey
(ex-Genesis tribute band Gabble Ratchet, ex-Yes tribute band Closer
to the Edge) and Adam Malin (ex-Psycle, ex-Sheltered Lives), with
Hussey's colleague from Gabble Ratchet, Scott Connor. Connor is
better known for joining Yoso and CIRCA: with Billy Sherwood. In
late 2013, the live band consisted of Hussey, Malin, Connor, John
Thomas (worked with Toni Childs, Vixen, Graham Bonnet; guitar)
and Jeff Bird (Magnolia, ex-Yes tribute band Roundabout; bass).
The album, initially announced under the name Paranormal, is
a science fiction concept album. Malin is the composer/author of
several solo sci-fi rock operas and co-founded Creation
Entertainment, the company responsible for the original Star Trek
Convention. Promo for the album included praise from William Shatner
(working at the time with Sherwood and Connor) and Leonard Nimoy.
The album was some years in the making. Sherwood talked on Facebook
of mixing the album from Jul 2011 to Jun 2012, but then new bass and
drums recordings were done (with Sherwood coming in on bass,
replacing, I think, Jim Wilson). A new mix was done in Oct 2012. The
album was released in the US 22 Oct 2013. (HP, 22 Dec 13)
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