''Circa 2007'' (stylized as ''CIRCA: 2007'') is the debut album by
Circa, a
progressive rock
Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog; sometimes conflated with art rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s. In ...
band consisting of then former
Yes members
Billy Sherwood (bass, vocals),
Tony Kaye (keyboards) and
Alan White (drums), as well as
Jimmy Haun (guitar), who had worked with Yes as a session musician. Billy's elder brother
Michael Sherwood also appears. Two tracks are based on material Billy Sherwood and
Trevor Rabin
Trevor Charles Rabin (; born ) is a South African rock musician and composer. Born into a musical family and raised in Johannesburg, Rabin took up the piano and guitar at an early age and became a session musician, playing and producing with a va ...
were developing in the mid-1990s.
The album was released independently on 30 July 2007.
Tracks listing
Personnel
;CIRCA
*
Billy Sherwood -
bass,
lead vocals
*
Jimmy Haun -
electric
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&
acoustic guitars,
backing vocals
A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are ...
*
Tony Kaye -
keyboards
*
Alan White -
drums,
percussion
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, backing vocals
;Additional musicians
* Cole Coleman -
laúd on track 3
*
Michael Sherwood -
vocoder
A vocoder (, a portmanteau of ''voice'' and ''encoder'') is a category of speech coding that analyzes and synthesizes the human voice signal for audio data compression, multiplexing, voice encryption or voice transformation.
The vocoder was ...
; Production
*Arranged & Produced By Circa
*Recorded, Engineered & Mixed By Billy Sherwood
*Studio techs: Ric Luxembourg, Mark Ferguson, John Cox, Scott Walton and everybody at Uncle Studios
*Mastered By Joe Gastwirt
References
External links
Yescography entry
{{Authority control
2007 debut albums
Self-released albums