''Waters of Eden'' is

Tony Levin Anthony Frederick Levin (born June 6, 1946) is an American musician and composer, specializing in electric bass, Chapman Stick and upright bass. He also sings and plays synthesizer. Levin is best known for his work with King Crimson (since 1 ...

's second solo album, released in 2000. Most of the tracks feature a quartet of Levin, keyboardist

Larry Fast Lawrence Roger Fast (born December 10, 1951) is an American synthesizer player and composer. He is best known for his 1975–1987 series of synthesizer music albums (''Synergy'') and for his contributions to a number of popular music acts, inclu ...

, guitarist

Jeff Pevar Jeff Pevar is an American musician who has recorded and toured with numerous renowned artists as well as having a solo career. Pevar recorded a debut record on his label Pet Peev Music™, called ''From The Core'', which was released in Decembe ...

, and drummer

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. Additional musicians who appear throughout the album include keyboardists

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and

Warren Bernhardt Warren Bernhardt (November 13, 1938 – August 19, 2022)''WBGO'', (Newark, NJ)"Warren Bernhardt, pianist with Steps Ahead, Steely Dan and other bands, dies at 83" August 24, 2022. Retrieved on August 24, 2022. was an American pianist in jazz, pop ...

, guitarist

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, and flautist Steve Gorn.

Track listing

# "Bone & Flesh" – 6:46 # "Waters of Eden" – 4:50 # "Icarus" – 5:35 # "Gecko Walk" – 4:58 # "Belle" – 4:00 # "Pillar of Fire" – 6:44 # "Boulevard of Dreams" – 6:47 # "Opal Road" – 6:23 # "Utopia" – 8:03 The Japanese release contains a bonus track entitled "From Here to the Stars" and features different cover artwork.

Personnel

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piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

on track 7, engineer *

California Guitar Trio California Guitar Trio (CGT) is a band of three guitar players founded in Los Angeles in 1991 by Paul Richards, Hideyo Moriya, and Bert Lams around the concept of playing acoustic guitars in the New Standard Tuning taught by Robert Fripp on Gui ...

– acoustic guitars on track 2 *

– synthesizer (tracks 1, 4, 6, 8, 9), engineer * Steve Gorn – bansuri flute (tracks 1, 8), engineer *Pete Levin – synthesizer (track 5) *Tony Levin – Music Man

electric bass 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 s ...

(tracks 3, 6),

fretless bass A fretless bass is a bass guitar whose neck does not have any frets. While the instrument is played in all styles of music, it is most common in pop, rock, and jazz. It first saw widespread use during the 1970s, although some players used them befo ...

, NS

electric upright bass The electric upright bass (EUB) is an instrument that can perform the musical function of a double bass. It requires only a minimal or 'skeleton' body to produce sound because it uses a pickup and electronic amplifier and loudspeaker. Therefore, ...

(track 6), NS

electric cello The electric cello is a type of cello that relies on electronic amplification (rather than acoustic resonance) to produce sound. An acoustic cello can be fitted with a bridge or body mounted contact pickup providing an electric signal, or a built- ...

(tracks 1, 2), engineer *

– percussion, drums, Taos drum, engineer *Jeff Pevar – acoustic guitar (tracks 3, 8),

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gu ...

(tracks 3, 4, 6, 9), engineer *

– synthesizer (tracks 2, 3), piano (track 2), virtual soprano saxophone *

– acoustic and electric guitars (track 1), electric

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, loops (track 1), drum processing (track 4)

Production

*David Bottrill – Mixing *Robert Frazza – Engineer *Brandon Mason – Engineer, Assistant Engineer *Trevor Sadler – Mastering *David Tom – Engineer *Artie Traum – Producer

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Waters Of Eden Tony Levin albums 2000 albums Narada Productions albums