''Fitzcarraldo'' is the second studio album by

The Frames The Frames are an Irish rock band based in Dublin. Founded in 1990 by Glen Hansard, the band has been influential in the Dublin rock music scene. The group has released six studio albums. In addition to Hansard, the band's current line-up incl ...

, released under the moniker ''The Frames DC'' to avoid confusion with the American band of the same name. Another version of the album would be published in 1996. The album was released on

ZTT Records ZTT Records is a British record label founded in 1983 by record producer Trevor Horn, Horn's wife and businesswoman Jill Sinclair, and ''New Musical Express'' (NME) journalist Paul Morley. The label's name was also stylised as ZANG TUMB TUUM and ...

in November 1995. The Frames' line-up for ''Fitzcarraldo'' features

Glen Hansard Glen Hansard (born 21 April 1970) is an Irish singer-songwriter, musician and actor. Since 1990, he has been the frontman of the Irish rock band The Frames, with whom he has released six studio albums, four of which have charted in the top ten ...

on guitar and vocals,

Colm Mac Con Iomaire Colm Mac Con Iomaire () is an Irish composer and musician from Blackrock, County Dublin, Ireland, who plays violin and sings with The Frames. He is the son of Liam Mac Con Iomaire, a writer, journalist and broadcaster. He attended school at ...

on violin,

Graham Downey Graham and Graeme may refer to: People * Graham (given name), an English-language given name * Graham (surname), an English-language surname * Graeme (surname), an English-language surname * Graham (musician) (born 1979), Burmese singer * Clan G ...

on bass guitar and keyboards,

Dave Odlum David Odlum is an Irish music producer, engineer, guitarist, and drummer who has worked and played with Academy Award winners and Mercury Prize nominees. Originally a member of Kíla, a band which was founded during his schooldays at Coláiste ...

on lead guitar, Paul Brennan on drums and Noreen O'Donnell on backing vocals. They also featured

Pete Briquette Patrick Martin Cusack (born 2 July 1954), known by the stage name Pete Briquette, is an Irish bassist, record producer and composer. He is a member of the Boomtown Rats and has also played in Bob Geldof's band. Boomtown Rats He was born in Bal ...

on keyboards & programming,

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on viola and Kevin Murphy on cello. It was recorded at Totally Wired Studios,

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by Ivan O'Shea and Tom Skerrit and produced and mixed by Pete Briquette. The title track's name comes from

Werner Herzog Werner Herzog (; born 5 September 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, author, actor, and opera director, regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema. His films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with un ...

's 1982 film ''

Fitzcarraldo ''Fitzcarraldo'' () is a 1982 West German epic adventure-drama film written, produced and directed by Werner Herzog, and starring Klaus Kinski as would-be rubber baron, Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irishman known in Peru as Fitzcarraldo, who i ...

'' which frontman Hansard describes as being about a man "pulling a ship over a mountain".

Track listing

# "Revelate" (4:02) # "Angel At My Table" (3:54) # "Monument" (3:33) # "In This Boat Together" (4:20) # "Giving It All Away" (4:10) # "Say It To Me Now" (5:34) # "Denounced" (4:13) # "Red Chord" (4:27) # "Roger" (3:23) # "Fitzcarraldo" (11:35) # "Your Face" (Hidden track)

Re-release

Fitzcarraldo was re-issued by

on 29 October 1996. The Frames' line-up for ''Fitzcarraldo'' features

on guitar and vocals,

on violin,

on bass guitar and keyboards,

on lead guitar, Paul Brennan on drums and Noreen O'Donnell on backing vocals. They also featured

on keyboards & programming,

on viola and Kevin Murphy on cello. Tracks 6-11 were recorded at Totally Wired Studios,

by Ivan O'Shea and Tom Skerrit and produced and mixed by Pete Briquette and are the same as those on the previous release. Tracks 1-5 were produced by Trevor Horn and engineered by Steve Fitzmaurice, except track 1, which was engineered by Tom Elmhurst at Westside (London). These tracks were re-worked for the re-issue and "Roger" was replaced by "Evergreen" and the track order changed. All tracks were mixed by Steve Fitzmaurice.

Track listing

# "Revelate" (3:48) # "Angel At My Table" (3:50) # "Fitzcarraldo" (6:03) # "Evergreen" (4:29) # "In This Boat Together" (5:17) # "Say It To Me Now" (5:34) # "Monument" (3:43) # "Giving It All Away" (4:15) # "Red Chord" (4:35) # "Denounced" (4:27) # "Your Face" (5:44)

Chart positions

References

External links

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