''Falling Up'' is the thirteenth studio album by

Kevin Ayers Kevin Ayers (16 August 1944 – 18 February 2013) was an English singer-songwriter who was active in the English psychedelic music movement. Ayers was a founding member of the psychedelic band Soft Machine in the mid-1960s, and was closely assoc ...

, released on

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in 1988. The song "Flying Start" was first released on the

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album ''Islands'' in September 1987.

Track listing

# "(Another) Saturday Night (In Deya)" (Kevin Ayers, Peter Halsall) – 4:02 # " Flying Start" (

) – 3:38 # "The Best We Have" (Ayers, Halsall) – 3:29 # "Another Rolling Stone" (Ayers, Marvin Siau) – 5:17 # "Do You Believe" (Ayers) – 5:54 # "That's What We Did (Today)" (Ayers, Halsall) – 3:44 # "Night Fighters" (Ayers, Halsall) – 4:58 # "Am I Really Marcel?" (Ayers) – 5:59 In the songwriting credits, Ollie Halsall's real name, Peter, is used.

Personnel

Musicians

* Kevin Ayers –

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica inclu ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

Ollie Halsall Peter John "Ollie" Halsall (14 March 1949 – 29 May 1992) was an English guitarist best known for his role in the Rutles, the bands Timebox, Patto and Boxer, and for his contribution to the music of Kevin Ayers. He is also notable as one of t ...

– guitar,

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, bass,

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 use ...

* Luis Dulzaides –

congas The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba. Congas are staved like barrels and classified into three types: quinto (lead drum, highest), tres dos or tres golpes (middle), and tumba or salidor (lowest) ...

* Marcelo Fuentes – bass * Javier Paxariño –

soprano saxophone The soprano saxophone is a higher-register variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument invented in the 1840s. The soprano is the third-smallest member of the saxophone family, which consists (from smallest to largest) of the soprillo, sop ...

* Ñete (Antonio Martín-Caruana) – drums * Tony Vázquez – drums,

bongos Bongos ( es, bongó) are an Afro-Cuban percussion instrument consisting of a pair of small open bottomed hand drums of different sizes. They are struck with both hands, most commonly in an eight-stroke pattern called ''martillo'' (hammer). The ...

* Pablo Salinas –

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

* Miguel Herrero – guitars * El Reverendo –

Hammond organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated s ...

* Charles J. Beale, Chuck "C' Note" Brown, Patrick Patterson, Andrea Bronston, Mary Jamison – backing vocals

Technical

* Colin Fairley – producer * Eugenio Muñoz –

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* David De La Torre – assistant engineer *Oscar Mariné - artwork *Jordi Socías - photography

References

*Original LP sleevenotes {{Authority control 1988 albums Kevin Ayers albums Virgin Records albums