Cities (The Cat Empire album)

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Cities
Studio album by The Cat Empire
Released	2006
Recorded	2005-2006
Genre	Jazz/Rock/Hip hop
Length	45:32
Label	EMI/Virgin
Producer(s)	Felix Riebl & The Cat Empire
The Cat Empire chronology
Two Shoes (2005)	Cities (2006)

Cities is an album by The Cat Empire released on the 1 April 2006. A strictly limited release, 10,000 individually-numbered copies have been made in digipak format.

On October 29th, the album won an ARIA Music Award under the catogory: Awards for Fine Arts, Best World Music Album.

The album was recorded at Sing Sing Studios in Richmond, Melbourne, Australia.

As well as The Cat Empire and the Empire Horns (Ross Irwin, Kieran Conrau and Carlo Barbaro), this project features many guest artists, including:

• Alyssa Conrau (violin),
• Kirsty Conrau (cello),
• Novak Conrad (guitar),
• Julie O'Hara (vocals in 'Song for Elias', 'Motion', 'Song for the Day', 'Side to Side', 'Waltz' and 'Luck Song'),
• Nina Ferro (vocals, in 'Side to Side', 'Song for the Day' and 'Waltz'),
• Greg Sheehan (talking tamb in 'Waltz'),
• Bobby Singh (tablas in 'Cities' and 'Boogaloo'), and
• Kumar Shome (sitar in 'Cities') .

[edit] Track listing

1. "Cities" – 3:23
2. "Boogaloo" – 3:30
3. "Siente" – 2:43
4. "Motion" – 3:43
5. "Song for the Day" – 3:47
6. "Know your Name" – 3:21
7. "Song for Elias" – 4:32
8. "Jungle (instrumental)" – 2:12
9. "Down at the 303" – 2:40
10. "Side to Side" – 3:53
11. "Waltz" – 4:24
12. "Luck Song" – 3:30
13. "Anymore" – 3:52

• Miss Soul 4:35 This is an extra track which is exclusive to iTunes. When it was first available for download, it was titled 'Feline'.

This album has been released with the Copy Control protection system in some regions.

[edit] Charts

Chart	Position
Australasian Album Chart	6
Australian ARIA Album Chart	11

Australian ARIA Album Chart
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11
Chart Position	11	17	22	26	45	50

[edit] Sources

• Cities - CD Reviews (The Age)
• musichead.com.au