Boxes (Icehouse album)

Infobox Album | Name = Boxes
Type = soundtrack
Artist = Icehouse


Released = Start date|1985|11|1
Recorded = Trash Studios, Sydney, Australia
Genre = synthpop/New Wave
Length =
Label = Festival/Chrysalis
Producer = Iva Davies
Bob Kretschmer
Last album = "Sidewalk"
(1984)
This album = "Boxes"
(1985)
Next album = "Measure for Measure"
(1986)
Misc = Singles
Name = Boxes
Type = single
Single 1 = No Promises
Single 1 date = Start date|1985|11|1
Single 2 =
Single 2 date =
Single 3 =
Single 3 date =

"Boxes" is a soundtrack album by Australian band, Icehouse released by Festival Records / Chrysalis Records in November 1985. The work was originally conceived by its composers, Iva Davies and Robert Kretschmer, in collaboration with choreographer Graeme Murphy of the Sydney Dance Company for performance as the ballet "Boxes". The first live performance of "Boxes" was given by the Sydney Dance Company together with Davies and Kretschmer of Icehouse and guest percussionist Masaki Tanazawa in the Opera Theatre of the Sydney Opera House on 7 November 1985.cite book |title=Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop |url=http://web.archive.org/web/20030517224039/www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=937 |format=doc |last=McFarlane |first=Ian |authorlink= Ian McFarlane |publisher=Allen & Unwin |year=1999 |isbn=1-86448-768-2 |accessdate=2008-06-11] "Boxes" was released in the US under the name Icehouse and Sydney Dance Company.cite web |url=http://musicbrainz.org/show/artist/?artistid=303886&ex=431025&short=1&compact=0#al431025 |title=Icehouse & Sydney Dance Company |publisher=MusicBrainz |accessdate=2008-07-02 ] The single "No Promises" was released as a 12" in November and a cassingle in December on Regular Records for Australian and New Zealand markets, it contained other tracks from "Boxes"; two tracks from "Boxes" were later released on their next studio album "Measure for Measure" in April 1986.

Track listing

# "Early Images" - 3:48
# "Terra Incognita" - 1:47 ^
# "Solitaire" - 4:22
# "A Break in the Clouds" - 4:15
# "Love Dance" - 2:57
# "No Promises" - 6:03 ^ &&
# "The Tempest - Part 1" - 2:21 ^
# "The Tempest - Part 2" - 2:27 ^
# "Gravity" - 1:41 ^
# "Indian Summer" - 3:46
# "Russian Dolls" - 5:14
# "Regular Boys" - 2:38
# "Familiar Winds" - 2:02
# "The Walker" - 1:25
# "No Promises" (reprise) - 1:22
# "Surgery" - 2:36
# "Regular Boys" (reprise) - 3:17 &&
# "Labyrinth - Part 1" - 1:21
# "Labyrinth - Part 2" - 1:00
# "Liberation - Part 1" - 1:24
# "Liberation - Part 2" - 1:55^ tracks also on "No Promises" 12" single in 1985
&& tracks, different versions, also on "Measure for Measure" in 1986

Personnel

*Music:Iva Davies, Bob Kretschmer, Masaki Tanazawa
*Studio/s: Trash Studios, Sydney, Australia
*Mix: Warne Livesey @ Crescent Studios, Bath, England.
*Producer/s: Iva Davies and Bob Kretschmer

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