''Exile and the Kingdom'' (2006) is the debut solo album from Canadian singer/songwriter
Jeff Martin Jeff Martin may refer to:
* Jeff Martin (American musician) (born 1957), lead vocalist for the bands Surgical Steel and Racer X; drummer for Badlands
*Jeff Martin (Canadian musician) (born 1969), guitarist, singer, and songwriter for the Tea Party
...
. The title is derived from the 1957 book of the same name by
Albert Camus.
Track listing
All songs are written by Jeff Martin, except track 1 by Jeff Martin,
Michael Lee and Ritesh Das
#"World is Calling" – 5:24
#"Butterfly" – 3:31
#"Where Do We Go from Here" – 3:37
#"Daystar" – 3:59
#"Lament" – 4:34
#"Angeldust" – 4:51
#"Black Snake Blues" – 3:32
#"Stay inside of Me" – 3:40
#"The Kingdom" – 6:22
#"Good Time Song" – 3:18
Personnel
Recording personnel
*Produced by Jeff Martin
*Executive Producer
Michael Lee Jackson
*Associate Executive producers: Dr. Michael Virro, Perry Tapanainen
*Recorded & engineered by Nick Blagona
*Assistant engineers: Evan Ritchie, Barry Nolan
*Mixed by: Nick Blagona & Jeff Martin
*Assistant mix engineer: Luke Fountain
*All songs recorded at Caroline Studios, Durrus, County Cork, Ireland
*All songs mixed at Metalworks Recording Studio,
Mississauga
Mississauga ( ), historically known as Toronto Township, is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is situated on the shores of Lake Ontario in the Regional Municipality of Peel, adjoining the western border of Toronto. With a popul ...
,
Ontario,
Canada
*Mastered by Nick Blagona at Metalworks Recording Studios
*Published by JMartin Music (SOCAN)
Musicians
*"World is Calling":
:Jeff Martin –
vocals,
electric guitars,
bass guitar, emulator
synthesizer
A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and ...
,
dumbek
:Ritesh Das –
tabla,
chant
A chant (from French ', from Latin ', "to sing") is the iterative speaking or singing of words or sounds, often primarily on one or two main pitches called reciting tones. Chants may range from a simple melody involving a limited set of notes ...
.
:Michael Lee –
drums
A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...
.
:Marc Oulette –
String
String or strings may refer to:
*String (structure), a long flexible structure made from threads twisted together, which is used to tie, bind, or hang other objects
Arts, entertainment, and media Films
* ''Strings'' (1991 film), a Canadian anim ...
arrangement
In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition. Differences from the original composition may include reharmonization, melodic paraphrasing, orchestration, or formal development. Arranging differs from orches ...
& composition
*"Butterfly":
:Jeff Martin – vocals,
acoustic guitars
An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...
, electric guitars, bass guitar,
Fender Telecaster B-bender,
Hammond
Hammond may refer to:
People
* Hammond Innes (1913–1998), English novelist
* Hammond (surname)
* Justice Hammond (disambiguation)
Places Antarctica
* Hammond Glacier, Antarctica
Australia
*Hammond, South Australia, a small settlement in South ...
B3
:Ritesh Das –
udu
:Michael Lee – drums
*"Daystar":
:Jeff Martin – vocals, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, bass guitar,
sitar,
sarod,
tanpura,
hurdy-gurdy,
piano
:Ritesh Das – tabla,
dholak
The ''dholak'' is a two-headed hand drum, a folk percussion instrument. The instrument is about 45 cm in length and 27 cm in breadth and is widely used in ''qawwali'', '' kirtan'', '' lavani'' and '' bhangra''. The drum has two differ ...
,
dunun, udu
:Michael Lee – Drums
*"Lament":
:Jeff Martin – vocals,
Ellis 7 string resonator guitar, electric guitars, bass guitar,
E-bow, emulator synth
:Ritesh Das – tabla,
dunun
:Michael Lee – Drums
:Evan Ritchie –
manjira
*"Angeldust":
:Jeff Martin – vocals, acoustic guitars,
esraj emulator synth
:Nick Blagona – shakers,
hand drum A hand drum is any type of drum that is typically played with the bare hand rather than a stick, mallet, hammer, or other type of beater.
Types
The following descriptions allude to traditional versions of the drums. Modern synthetic versions are ...
*"Black Snake Blues":
:Jeff Martin – vocals,
Ellis 7-string resonator guitar, bass guitar,
banjo
The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...
:Michael Lee – Drums
:New Beginning Choral Ensenble
:Rodney Appleby –
choir vocal arrangement & conducting
*"Stay inside of Me":
:Jeff Martin – vocals, acoustic guitars,
mandolin
A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...
, emulator synth
:Jenny Laws – Vocals
*"The Kingdom":
:Jeff Martin – vocals, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, bass guitar, mandolin, piano, Hammond B3, emulator synth
:Ritesh Das – tabla, manjira
:Michael Lee – Drums
:Marc Oulette – string arrangement & composition
:New Beginning Choral Ensemble
:Rodney Appleby – choral vocal arrangement & conducting
:Nick Blagona –
tambourine
*"Good Time Song":
:Jeff Martin – vocals, acoustic guitars,
Ellis 7 string resonator guitar
:Ritesh Das –
table (yes, "table")
:Larsen Liebig – double bass
:Terry Scott –
spoons
Charts
References
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2006 albums
Jeff Martin (Canadian musician) albums
Shock Records albums