''Shine'' is the fourth solo studio album from

Trey Anastasio Ernest Joseph "Trey" Anastasio III (born September 30, 1964) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Phish, which he co-founded in 1983. He is credited by name as composer of 152 Phish o ...

, and his first release since the breakup of Phish in August 2004. Included in this release is new material written by Anastasio in late 2004 and early '05. The album also marks the first release by Anastasio apart from Elektra Records, as he has signed on with Columbia Records for this album. ''Shine'' was released on November 1, 2005, and was followed by a nationwide tour beginning in

Minneapolis Minneapolis () is the largest city in Minnesota, United States, and the county seat of Hennepin County. The city is abundant in water, with thirteen lakes, wetlands, the Mississippi River, creeks and waterfalls. Minneapolis has its origins ...

and ending in

Los Angeles Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, largest city in the U.S. state, state of California and the List of United States cities by population, sec ...

. It was also released in the

DualDisc The DualDisc is a type of double-sided optical disc product developed by a group of record companies including Michael Jackson, MJJ Productions Inc., EMI, EMI Music, Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, ...

format. The title track was Anastasio's most successful solo single on the ''Billboard'' Adult Alternative Songs chart, reaching #4 in December 2005.

Track listing

#" Shine" (

Brendan O'Brien Brendan O'Brien may refer to: *Brendan O'Brien (bishop) (born 1943), Roman Catholic archbishop of Kingston, Ontario, Canada *Brendan O'Brien (cricketer) (born 1942), Irish former cricketer *Brendan O'Brien (journalist), senior Irish journalist on R ...

) - 3:08 #"

Tuesday Tuesday is the day of the week between Monday and Wednesday. According to international standard ISO 8601, Monday is the first day of the week; thus, Tuesday is the second day of the week. According to some commonly used calendars, however ...

" (Anastasio) - 3:43 #"Invisible" (Anastasio, O'Brien) - 3:53 #"Come as Melody" (Anastasio) - 4:28 #"Air Said to Me" (Anastasio) - 3:50 #"Wherever You Find It" (Anastasio, O'Brien) - 5:54 #"Sweet Dreams Melinda" (Anastasio, Lawton, Markellis) - 3:36 #"Love Is Freedom" (Anastasio) - 3:55 #"Sleep Again" (Anastasio, O'Brien) - 5:01 #"Spin" (Anastasio, O'Brien) - 4:52 #"Black" (Anastasio) - 4:32 #"Love That Breaks All Lines" (Anastasio) - 3:50

Personnel

* Drums -

Kenny Aronoff Kenny Aronoff (born March 7, 1953) is an American session drummer. Early life Aronoff grew up in Stockbridge, Massachusetts He developed an interest in music at an early age and gravitated to the drums as "drumming was one hundred percent ener ...

Bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

, keyboards, drums,

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 ...

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. Ex ...

Cyro Baptista Cyro Baptista (born December 23, 1950) is a Brazilian percussionist in jazz and world music. He creates many of the percussion instruments he plays. Career Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Baptista arrived in the U.S. in 1980 with a scholarship to C ...

*Bass guitar - Peter Chwazik *Keyboards - Karl Egsieker, Ray Paczkowski

Extended copy protection

The CD was originally released with

Extended Copy Protection Extended Copy Protection (XCP) is a software package developed by the British company First 4 Internet (which on 20 November 2006, changed its name to Fortium Technologies Ltd) and sold as a copy protection or digital rights management (DRM) schem ...

, a

rootkit A rootkit is a collection of computer software, typically malicious, designed to enable access to a computer or an area of its software that is not otherwise allowed (for example, to an unauthorized user) and often masks its existence or the exis ...

based form of

copy protection Copy protection, also known as content protection, copy prevention and copy restriction, describes measures to enforce copyright by preventing the reproduction of software, films, music, and other media. Copy protection is most commonly found o ...

by Sony BMG, who owns Columbia Records, ironic given Phish's lax views on filesharing and concert taping. After the Sony BMG CD copy prevention scandal, the album was reissued without the copy protection software.

References

External links

Trey Anastasio's Official WebsitePhish's Official Website
{{Authority control 2005 albums Trey Anastasio albums Albums produced by Brendan O'Brien (record producer) Columbia Records albums