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Adrian Belew Robert Steven "Adrian" Belew (born December 23, 1949) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. A multi-instrumentalist primarily known as a guitarist and singer, he is noted for his unusual and impressionistic approach to ...

, released in 2009 (though not billed as such, it is also his first studio recording with the Adrian Belew Power Trio). The album consists of a single extended instrumental piece, presented as a suite in five parts. Belew performed the entire piece with an orchestra in

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, the Netherlands, on 28 February 2011.

Track listing

All songs written by Adrian Belew # "a" – 0:30 # "a2" – 3:38 # "a3" – 3:07 # "b" – 6:13 # "b2" – 3:36 # "b3" – 1:22 # "c" – 6:19 # "d" – 6:01 # "d2" – 2:51 # "e" – 0:56 # "e2" – 7:58

Personnel

Musicians

* Adrian Belew –

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Julie Slick Robert Steven "Adrian" Belew (born December 23, 1949) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. A multi-instrumentalist primarily known as a guitarist and singer, he is noted for his unusual and impressionistic approach to ...

– bass *

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–

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Technical

* Adrian Belew – producer * Saul Zonana –

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* Gary Platt –

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* Anders Peterson – assistant engineer * Mark Colman –

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and

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