''Ship of Fools'' is the fifth studio album by American
post-punk
Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad genre of punk music that emerged in the late 1970s as musicians departed from punk's traditional elements and raw simplicity, instead adopting a variety of avant-garde sensibilities and non-roc ...
band
Tuxedomoon, released in 1986 by
Cramboy.
Track listing
Personnel
Adapted from the ''Ship of Fools'' liner notes.
;Tuxedomoon
*
Steven Brown Stephen or Steven Brown may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Stephen Brown (athlete) (born 1969), Trinidadian hurdler
* Stephen Brown (composer) (born 1948), Canadian composer
* Stephen Brown (film producer) (born 1961), American film producer, ...
– lead vocals
(1–3, 8),
soprano saxophone
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(1–3), piano
(5–7), keyboards
(3), clarinet
(8)
*
Peter Dachert
Tuxedomoon is an experimental, post-punk, new wave band from San Francisco, California, United States. The band formed in the late 1970s at the beginning of the punk rock movement. Pulling influence from punk and electronic music, the group, ori ...
(as Peter Principle) – bass guitar
(1, 3, 5, 6, 8), guitar
(1, 2, 6), percussion
(1–3),
EBow (6)
*
Ivan Georgiev – organ
(1), synthesizer
(1, 3), bass guitar
(2), piano
(8)
* Luc Van Lieshout – trumpet
(1, 3, 7),
flugelhorn
The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B, though some ...
(1, 5, 8), synthesizer
(2, 8),organ
(2), harmonica
(3), percussion
(6)
;Additional musicians
* Marcia Barcellos – backing vocals
(2)
*
Bruce Geduldig
Tuxedomoon is an experimental, post-punk, new wave band from San Francisco, California, United States. The band formed in the late 1970s at the beginning of the punk rock movement. Pulling influence from punk and electronic music, the group, ori ...
– lead vocals
(3)
* Thierry Szyfer – drums
(8)
;Production and additional personnel
* Jean-Marie Jacobs – photography
* Daniel Leon –
recording (8)
* Gilles Martin – production, recording
*
Tuxedomoon – production, arrangement
Release history
References
External links
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1986 albums
Tuxedomoon albums
Crammed Discs albums
Restless Records albums
Virgin Records albums