- A Valid Path
Infobox Album |
Name = A Valid Path
Type =Album
Artist =Alan Parsons
Released =August 24 2004
Recorded =
Genre = Progressive
Electronic
Length = 49:16
Label = Artemis
Producer = Alan Parsons
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jsri28gq055a link]
Last album = "The Time Machine"
(1999)
This album = "A Valid Path"
(2004)
Next album =
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = DualDisc Cover
Type =Album
Lower caption = The cover of the 2006 DualDisc reissue"A Valid Path" is the fourth solo album that
Alan Parsons made after the split of his previous groupThe Alan Parsons Project . The gap between this and his previous album, "The Time Machine", was the second greatest period between two consecutive albums, second only to the time between the split of the Project and his first solo work.A Valid Path was released on Audio CD and
DualDisc , with the DualDisc containing the album in 5.1 Surround in both DTS andDolby Digital formats. Other features include a track commentary by the artist and interviews with Parsons and the main collaborators includingDavid Gilmour andThe Crystal Method .Track listing
#"Return to
Tunguska " (instrumental featuringShpongle ) – 8:48
#"More Lost Without You" (lead vocalP.J. Olsson ) – 3:20
#"Mammagamma '04" (instrumental) – 5:06
#"We Play the Game" (lead vocalAlan Parsons ) – 5:33
#"Tijuaniac" (instrumental) – 5:21
#"L'Arc en Ciel" (instrumental) – 5:26
#"A Recurring Dream Within a Dream" (lead vocalAlan Parsons narrationOrson Welles ) – 4:06
#"You Can Run" (lead vocalDavid Pack ) – 3:51
#"Chomolungma" (instrumental, closing wordsJohn Cleese , barking excluded) – 6:35Personnel
*
Alan Parsons – vocals, guitar, keyboards, vocoder
* Jeremy Parsons - guitar
* P.J. Olsson – vocals, programming
*Michele Adamson , Lisa Parsons – vocals
*John Cleese ,Orson Welles – spoken vocals
*David Gilmour - guitar on "Return to Tunguska"
* Alastair Greene – guitar
* Scott Kirkland – keyboards, programming
* Ken Jordan,Simon Posford – programming
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