The Beautiful Game (album)
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| The Beautiful Game | ||
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| Studio album by Acoustic Alchemy | ||
| Released | 2000 | |
| Recorded | 2000 at: Coast Recorders, San Francisco, USA Tiny Telephone, San Francisco, USA Higher Ground Studios, London, UK Hansa Haus Studios, Bonn, Germany |
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| Genre | Smooth Jazz | |
| Length | 62:48 | |
| Label | Higher Octave Music 48946 |
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| Producer(s) | Richard Bull Greg Carmichael Miles Gilderdale |
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| Acoustic Alchemy chronology | ||
| 10th Positive Thinking... (1998) |
11th The Beautiful Game (2000) |
12th AArt (2001) |
The Beautiful Game was the tenth full-length album by Acoustic Alchemy, and marked a turning point in the career of guitarist Greg Carmichael.
This album was the first without founding member Nick Webb, who had died two years previous to pancreatic cancer; duties on steel string guitar were now filled by understudy Miles Gilderdale, who remains in the post to this day.
The album came as a stark change to fans of the group. Glossy production and radically different songwriting brought about a new 21st century sound, completely adverse to the style built up over a decade and a half up until this point.
Experimentation was certainly a prominent factor in "The Beautiful Game". Tracks like "The Last Flamenco" brought drum and bass style synthesised loops, whilst "Kidstuff" employed a repeated sample of a baby giggling.
One of the band's longer efforts, the album lasts over an hour including two bonus tracks, featuring Greg Carmichael and John Parsons re-recording two of the tracks with a country and western style backing.
[edit] Track listing
| # | Title | Writers | Duration |
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| 1 | "Angel Of The South" | Carmichael/Gilderdale | 6:41 |
| 2 | "The Panama Cat" | Carmichael/Gilderdale/Felix | 5:04 |
| 3 | "Trail Blazer" | Carmichael/Gilderdale/Parsons | 5:00 |
| 4 | "The Beautiful Game" | Carmichael/Disley | 5:16 |
| 5 | "Hats Of Magic" | Carmichael/White | 5:03 |
| 6 | "Tete A Tete" | Carmichael/Disley | 4:43 |
| 7 | "The Last Flamenco" | Carmichael/Parsons/White | 4:20 |
| 8 | "Kidstuff" | Carmichael/White | 4:19 |
| 9 | "Big Sky Country" | Carmichael/Gilderdale/Parsons | 4:34 |
| 10 | "Hold On To Your Heart" | Carmichael/Parsons | 4:11 |
| 11 | "Jubilation" | Carmichael/Parsons | 4:39 |
| 12 | "Big Sky Country (Nashville version)" | Carmichael/Gilderdale/Parsons | 4:17 |
| 13 | "Trail Blazer (Nashville version)" | Carmichael/Gilderdale/Parsons | 4:41 |
