The Complex

Infobox Album | Name = The Complex
Type = studio
Artist = Blue Man Group


Released = April 22, 2003
Recorded =
Genre = Experimental rock
Length = 58:41
Label = Lava/Atlantic
Producer = Todd Perlmutter, Matt Goldman, Phil Stanton, Chris Wink
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:prom96bokep6~T1 link]
Last album = "Audio"
(1999)
This album = "The Complex"
(2003)
Next album = "Las Vegas 4 Song Sampler"
(2005)
Misc = Singles
Name = The Complex
Type = studio
single 1 = The Current
single 1 date = July 28, 2003
single 2 = I Feel Love
single 2 date = July 11, 2004

"The Complex" is the second full-length album by Blue Man Group, released in 2003. The album produced two singles, and debuted at #60 on the Billboard charts.

Track listing

#"Above" (Dyas, Goldman, Heinemann, Pai, Perlmutter, Stanton, Wink) – 2:46
#"Time to Start" (Dyas, Goldman, Stanton, Wink) – 3:43
#"Sing Along" (Dyas, Goldman, Stanton, Wink) – 3:25
#*featuring Dave Matthews
#"Up to the Roof" (Dyas, Gleitsman, Goldman, Heinemann, Perlmutter, Stanton, Wink) – 3:51
#*featuring Tracy Bonham
#"Your Attention" (Dyas, Goldman, Heinemann, Pai, Perlmutter, Stanton, Wink) – 4:09
#"Persona" (Dyas, Gleitsman, Goldman, Stanton, Wink) – 4:30
#*featuring Josh Haden
#"Piano Smasher" (Dyas, Golden, Goldman, Perlmutter, Stanton, Wink) – 3:00
#"White Rabbit" (Grace Slick) – 2:54
#*featuring Esthero
#"The Current" (Dyas, Gleitsman, Goldman, Stanton, Wink) – 3:48
#*featuring Gavin Rossdale
#"Shadows, Pt. 2" (Dyas, Gleitsman, Goldman, Perlmutter, Stanton, Wink) – 2:56
#*featuring Tracy Bonham and Rob Swift
#"What Is Rock" (Dyas, Gleitsman, Goldman, Stanton, Wink) – 3:11
#*featuring Arone Dyer and Peter Moore
#"The Complex" (Dyas, Gleitsman, Goldman, Heinemann, Stanton, Wink) – 6:25
#*featuring Peter Moore
#"I Feel Love" (Bellotte, Moroder, Summer) – 5:13
#*featuring Annette Strean of Venus Hum
#"Exhibit 13" (Banks, Dyas, Goldman, Heinemann, Parrulli, Stanton, Wink) – 8:51
#*Actual length is – 4:01
#*Includes a hidden track - "Mandelbrot No.4", length: – 4:19

Concept

"The Complex" is a concept album that takes place in two separate worlds, a world of rock as in the song "Time to Start," and the urban isolation world, as in the songs "Sing Along," "The Current", and "The Complex." Both worlds are then tied together in the song "What Is Rock," which combines the ideals of the rock concert with the ideals of urban isolation.

Personnel

*Dave Anania - percussion, drums
*Tracy Bonham - vocals
*Chris Bowen - drums, voiceover, tubulum
*Nels Cline - guitar
*Wendy Day - drums
*Christian Dyas - guitar, harpsichord, zither, e-bow, baritone guitar
*Arone Dyer - vocals
*Byron Estep - dobro
*Esthero - vocals
*Avram Gleitsman
*Matt Goldman
*Spalding Gray - spoken word
*Josh Haden - vocals
*Larry Heinemann - bass, guitar, zither, Chapman Stick
*Dave Matthews - vocals
*Josh Matthews - drums
*Peter Moore - keyboards, vocals
*Ian Pai - percussion, drums
*Todd Perlmutter - percussion, drums, narrator
*Jeff Quay - percussion, drums
*Crag Rodriguez - drums
*Gavin Rossdale - vocals
*Brian Scott - tubulum
*Peter Simpson - drums
*Phil Stanton
*Dave Steele - guitar, zither
*Annette Strean - vocals
*Rob Swift - turntables
*Jeff Tortora - drums
*Chris Traynor - guitar
*Jeff Turlik - guitar, zither
*Chris Wink

Production

*Producers: Todd Perlmutter, Matt Goldman, Phil Stanton, Chris Wink
*Executive producer: Jeff Skillen
*Engineers: Bill Bookheim, Joe Hogan, Joe O'Connell, Todd Perlmutter, Andrew Schneider
*Mixing: Rich Costey, Andrew Schneider
*Mastering: Bob Ludwig
*Production supervisor: Jeff Levison
*Production coordination: Jaime Ramírez
*Product development: Michael Quinn, Jeni Ardizzone West
*Programming: Dan the Automator, Todd Perlmutter
*Computer engineering: Larry Heinemann
*Vocal producers: Kip Kubin, Tony Miracle, Venus Hum
*Sampling: Kid Koala
*Arrangers: Peter Moore, Ian Pai, Dave Steele, Jeff Turlik
*Studio assistant: Mike Napolitano
*Art consultant: Dan the Automator
*Technician: Mike Napolitano
*Drum technician: Carl Plaster
*Art direction: Marcus Miller, Charles Tyler Ensemble
*Design: Jen Graffam Wink
*Artwork: David Bell
*Cover

Charts

Album

ongs

External links

*MusicBrainz album|id=19553e96-ebae-4b3e-a5f9-57f2148c4e11|name=The Complex