Lost In Paradise (X-Perience Album)

Lost in Paradise is the 4th album by German band X-Perience.
The album includes ten new tracks and three remakes of their greatest hits, "A Neverending Dream", " Circles of Love" and " Magic Fields". "Return to Paradise" was the first single, released in October 2006. The second single was "Personal Heaven", a duet with Midge Ure. With the last single "I Feel Like You", singer Claudia Uhle decided to leave the band.

Lost in Paradise was released after a break of six years since their previous album, ''Journey of Life''. After touring and promoting the last album, Polydor/Universal released the promotional single "It's a Sin", a cover of the Pet Shop Boys song (2003). The band took some time off and Claudia released a solo-album under the name Angelzoom in 2005.

The album entered the German Album Charts on No. 78.

Track listing

# "I Feel Safe" – 3:55
# "Return to Paradise" – 3:36
# " Personal Heaven" Duet with Midge Ure lbum Version/small> – 4:01
# "Let Me Show You" – 3:47
# " I Feel Like You" lbum Version/small> – 3:30
# "Dream of Love" – 3:34
# "Million Miles" – 4:09
# "Poison Kiss" – 3:48
# "Heart of Mine" – 3:34
# "Deeper Than Deep" – 3:55

Bonustracks

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" Circles of Love" Alvarez Album Edit – 3:42
# "A Neverending Dream" Alvarez Album Edit – 3:37
# " Magic Fields" Alvarez Album Edit – 3:38

Album credits

Writers

*Track 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13: Written & composed by Matthias Uhle and Alex Kaiser
*Track 2: Written & composed by Matthias Uhle, Alex Kaiser, Hardy Krech, Mark Nissen
*Track 3: Written & composed by Midge Ure and Glenn Gregory
*Track 9: Written & composed by Torben Nielsson and D-Insomniac

Production

*Track 1, 2, 3, 6 produced and mixed by Elephant Music
*Track 4, 5, 7, 10 produced and mixed by Hayo Lewerentz & Graham Laybourne at Triggertrax and Boogiepark Studios
*Track 8 produced and mixed by Koerba for K16 Music at K16 Studio
*Track 9 produced and mixed by Elephant Music in cooperation with Tone-Kind
*Track 11, 12, 13 produced and mixed by José Alvarez Brill for www.pleasurepark-studios.com

Personnel

*Vocals: Claudia Uhle
*Track 3: Vocals by Claudia Uhle and Midge Ure
*Track 1, 3, 9: Guitars by Mark Nissen
*Track 10: Guitars by Graham Laybourne
*Track 11, 12, 13: Additional keyboard/production by Henning Verlage
*Track 13: Additional guitar by José Alvarez Brill

B-sides, rarities & outtakes

B-sides

* "Fireworks" – released as b-side on single " Personal Heaven"
* "Step Into the Light" – released as b-side on single " I Feel Like You"
* "Lay Down Your Guns" – outtake of album Journey Of Life, recorded 1999, released as b-side on single " I Feel Like You"

Rarities & outtakes

There exist plenty of demo and alternate versions of the album tracks. Many songs were edited and/or re-written during the three years of creating the album. Some of these versions were released on x-perience.de.

For a limited time, these songs were free downloads:
* "Deeper Than Deep (Alternative Mix with Piano Interlude)"
* "Let Me Show You (Alternate Demo Mix)"
* "Million Miles (Digital Dream Demo Mix)"
* "Million Miles (K16 Dream Dance Mix)"
* "Poison Kiss (Demo Version)"

"Dream to Me" is the name of a demo version of '' I Feel Like You''.
The song ''Joining Together'' is based on the same melody as ''Million Miles''. ''Joining Together'' was limited released as Image-song for Böllhoff, a provider of fastening, assembly and systems technology. ''Dragonfly'' is an unreleased song which was only played live during concerts 2003–2005. This song was finally released in a new version on their sixth album ''We Travel The World'' in 2023.

In 2003, there were plans to include cover-versions of ''It's A Sin'' (originally by Pet Shop Boys) and ''Moonlight Shadow'' (originally by Mike Oldfield and Maggie Reilly) because they already played these songs live but this was scrapped.

References

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2006 albums
X-Perience albums