Tales of Acid Ice Cream

Infobox Album | Name = Tales of Acid Ice Cream
Type = Album
Artist = Awaken (band)


Released = 1996
Recorded = 1995
Genre = pop, disco| Length = 70 minutes
Label =
Producer = Gilles Snowcat, Fred Scalliet
Reviews = * [http://www.ghpg.net/ctc/issues/ctc_017.txt Coast To Coast]
* [http://www.sefronia.com/album/Tales-of-acid-ice-cream.html Sefronia Magazine]
* [http://www.mygale.org/05/kultmag/us.htm Kult Magazine]
* [http://fp.nightfall.fr/index_1255_awaken-tales-acid.html Forces Paralleles]
Last album =
This album = "Tales of Acid Ice Cream"
(1996)
Next album = "Party In Lyceum's Toilets"
(2001)

Tales of Acid Ice Cream is the first album of music project Awaken, released in 1996.

History

Tales Of Acid Ice Cream has been done in two times : the keyboard sequences first, then in studio for the real instruments and voices. Most of the songs had a previous version on demo tapes, that had been completely re-recorded for the album. [ [http://home.scarlet.be/~ping9712/awaken-demos-engl.htm Demo tapes of Awaken & Nekokawa: love music ‾ magnetic soul ] ]

Controversy

*The booklet says Awaken is a quintet with two guests, but the main group doesn't play together in any of the tracks. The guitarist appears on two songs only, while the bassist on a single one. Every musician has played on previous demo tapes though, except guest Philippe Tasquin.
*The word "acid" of the title doesn't refer to drug but to citric acid, and used as a metaphor to depict the melancholic mood of the lyrics.

Trivia

*Thanks to the cover of Al Stewart's "Last Days Of The Century", Gilles Snowcat was invited to jam with Stewart in 1999. See site : [http://home.scarlet.be/~ping9712/awaken-alstu99-engl.htm Al Stewart and Awaken pics] .
*The two guest musicians, Vincent Trouble and Philippe Tasquin, existed as a duo on the Belgian scene in the early 90's : Tasquin Contre Trouble. Ironically, the don't appear together on any song of "Tales Of Acid Ice Cream".

Track listing

#Nursery Nymph
#Tunefully Misused
#1000 Days of Yesterdays -intro- (cover from Captain Beyond) / Last Days of the Century (cover from Al Stewart)
#Sleep Position # 68
#Requiem for a Golden Destiny
#Numbness of Highlights
#Memories of a Teenage Cat
#Doom Entry
#I Am Love (cover from Jackson Five) / Rescue (cover from Manfred Mann's Earth Band)
#Welcome to the 'House X' / Nostalgic Noom
#Blurping the Blurp
#Spirits of 1983
#This Time Around / Blind / Owed to 'G' (covers from Deep Purple)
#A Simple Love
#The Tale of the Magic Thursday
#Zlurp
#Nothing Could Be Good (cover from Bee Gees)
#Thin Crash Virus
#Winter Dancer Tale
#Still Alive (cover from Patrick Juvet)
#Wednesday Mayday

Musicians

*P'tit Bout : vocals
*Yves Larivierre : guitar
*Gina Mainardi : vocals
*Cedric Mattys : bass
*Gilles Snowcat : keyboards, programming, vocals
*Aurélia Thirion : vocals, add. keyboards

Guest musicians

*Vincent Trouble : accordion
*Philippe Tasquin : violin

Design

Caroline Redondo, Marie Bruwier, Laetitia Van Canneyt, Gilles Snowcat, Peter Clasen.

Availability

Collector. Catalog number : awalp-001

Outtakes

No outtake had been recorded. The original tapes being nowhere to be found, remastering the album became impossible.

ome reviews and references

* [http://www.ghpg.net/ctc/issues/ctc_017.txt Coast To Coast]
* [http://www.sefronia.com/album/Tales-of-acid-ice-cream.html Sefronia Magazine]
* [http://www.mygale.org/05/kultmag/us.htm Kult Magazine]
* [http://fp.nightfall.fr/index_1255_awaken-tales-acid.html Forces Paralleles]
* [http://www.beegees-world.com/cov0_0.html Bee Gees World] : mention of AWAKEN's covers of the Bee Gees' "Nothing Could Be Good".

External links

* [http://www.awaken.be AWAKEN] 's official site.

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