''Light Blue Sun'' is the second album by

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

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vocalist 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 ...

Lili Haydn Lili Haydn (born December 25, 1969) is a Canadian-born rock violinist, vocalist, actress, and composer. As a child, she pursued a career as an actress; at age eight she discovered the violin and began to focus on classical music. By the time Hay ...

. It was released in 2003 by

BMG Music Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) was a division of a German media company Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Sony Corporation of America on 1 October 2008. Although it was established in 1987, the music com ...

Track listing

# Light Blue Sun (Prelude) (Lili Haydn, Corky James) 2:44 # Come Here (Haydn,

Rick Boston Richard Wallie Boston is a Canadian musician, composer and producer based in Los Angeles. He is known for his roles in Low Pop Suicide and for producing Rickie Lee Jones' album, '' Ghostyhead''. Early life and education Richard Wallie Boston wa ...

) 5:34 # Anything (Haydn, Peter Rafelson) 6:08 # Wounded Dove (Haydn) 6:55 # The Longing (Albinoni; add. music by Haydn) 5:08 # Denied (Lotus Weinstock) 5:42 # The Chinese Song (add. music by Haydn) 6:26 # Sweetness (Haydn, Jez Colin) 4:26 # Seek (Haydn, Siri Ved K. Khalsa) 8:13 # Home (Haydn, Tony McAnany) 6:47 # The Promised Land (Weinstock, Haydn, Steve Nalepa) 10:23 # Anything (radio edit) 3:39

Musicians

and vocals on all tracks; keyboard/programming on 4, 7, 9 and 10 * Bill Laswell:

bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in the bass range: ** Bass (instrument), including: ** Acoustic bass gui ...

on 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 12 *Corky James:

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 ...

on 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 12 *Steve Nalepa (DJ Sherlock):

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/ ambience on 1, 4, 9, 10, 11; keyboard bass on 10; programming on 3, 9 and 12 *

Karsh Kale Karsh Kale (pronounced ''Kursh Kah-lay'', ''कर्ष काळे'' in Marathi; born 1 November 1974) is an Indian-American musician born in England. Known primarily for his experimental tabla playing within electronic music contexts, Kale' ...

: beat construction and additional production on 1, 5, 7;

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on 2, 4, 5 and

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s on 5, 7 *Jez Colin: programming/keyboards/ambiance on 4, 8, 10 *Satnam Singh Ramgotra: tablas on 2, 4, 7 *Goffrey Moore: guitar on 8, 10 *

Pharoah Sanders Pharoah Sanders (born Ferrell Lee Sanders; October 13, 1940 – September 24, 2022) was an American jazz saxophonist. Known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of "sheets of sound", San ...

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while th ...

on 11 * George Clinton:

spoken word Spoken word refers to an oral poetic performance art that is based mainly on the poem as well as the performer's aesthetic qualities. It is a late 20th century continuation of an ancient oral artistic tradition that focuses on the aesthetics of ...

on 11 * Alice Coltrane:

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 ...

on 6 *Teo Castro: programming on 3, 12 *Bahar: Qawali vocal on 1 *Gerri Sutyak:

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...

on 3, 4 and 12 *Vanessa Freebairn-Smith: cello on 3, 4 and 12 *Alma Fernandez:

viola The viola ( , also , ) is a string instrument that is bow (music), bowed, plucked, or played with varying techniques. Slightly larger than a violin, it has a lower and deeper sound. Since the 18th century, it has been the middle or alto voice of ...

on 3, 4 and 12 *Julianna Klopotic: violin on 6 *Ron Lawrence: viola on 6 *Tara Chambers: cello on 6 *Marius DeVries: bass and programming on 2 *Carmen Rizzo: keyboards, programming and sound design on 2 *Chris Bruce: guitar on 2 *Produced by Bill Laswell and Lili Haydn 2003 albums Lili Haydn albums Albums produced by Bill Laswell {{2000s-classical-album-stub