''Kings of Sleep'' is the second solo album released by bassist

Stuart Hamm Stuart Hamm (born February 8, 1960) is an American bass guitar player, known for his session and live work with numerous artists as well as for his unconventional playing style and solo recordings. Career Born in New Orleans, Hamm spent his chil ...

. It was released on June 19, 1989 on

Relativity Records Relativity Records was an American record label founded by Barry Kobrin at the site of his company, Important Record Distributors (IRD) in metro New York. Relativity released music that covers a wide variety of musical genres. When it entered in ...

. The title of the album and many of the songs were inspired by the novels and short stories of

William Gibson William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as ''cyberpunk''. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his ...

, including

Neuromancer ''Neuromancer'' is a 1984 science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson. Considered one of the earliest and best-known works in the cyberpunk genre, it is the only novel to win the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and ...

("Black Ice" and "Terminal Beach" are both references from that novel),

Count Zero ''Count Zero'' is a science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson, originally published in 1986. It is the second volume of the Sprawl trilogy, which begins with ''Neuromancer'' and concludes with ''Mona Lisa Overdrive'', and is ...

(referring to the name of the novel as well as the hacker handle of one of the protagonists), and the short story

The Winter Market "The Winter Market" is a science fiction short story written by William Gibson and published as part of his ''Burning Chrome'' short story collection. The story was commissioned in 1985 by ''Vancouver Magazine'', who stipulated that Gibson – who ...

(''Kings of Sleep'' is the name of a fictional stim-album in that story).

Track listing

All songs written by Stuart Hamm, except where noted. # "Black Ice" – 4:23 # "Surely the Best" – 5:19 # "Call of the Wild" – 4:41 # "Terminal Beach" – 3:57 # "Count Zero" – 4:13 # "I Want to Know" – 5:39 # "Prelude in C" (

J.S. Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late baroque music, Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the ''Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suite ...

) – 2:30 # "Kings of Sleep" (Kim Bullard &

) – 8:23

Personnel

- Bass guitar * Harry Cody - Electric Guitar on "Surely the Best", "Call of the Wild", "Count Zero" and "Kings of Sleep" *

Buzzy Feiten Howard "Buzz" Feiten (born November 4, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, session musician, and luthier. He is best known as a lead and rhythm guitarist and for having patented a tuning system for guitars and similar instrument ...

- Electric Guitar on "Black Ice" and "I Want to Know" *

Jonathan Mover Jonathan Mover a.k.a. "Mover" is an American drummer, engineer and producer. He is a former member of the bands Marillion and GTR. Early life and career Mover was raised in the Boston area and began playing drums at age thirteen. Primarily s ...

- Drums * Amy Knoles - Percussion * Scott Collard - Keyboards * Dick Zimmerman - Photography * David Bett - Art Direction *

- Producer

References

{{Authority control Stuart Hamm albums 1989 albums