Through the Windowpane

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Through the Windowpane
Studio album by Guillemots
Released July 10, 2006
Genre Indie rock
Length 60:01
Label Polydor
987 782-4
Professional reviews
Guillemots chronology
From The Cliffs
(2006)		 Through the Windowpane
(2006)		 Red
(2008)

Through the Windowpane is the debut full-length album from the British indie rock band Guillemots, released July 10, 2006 in the UK. The album was highly anticipated following the strength of the singles "Trains to Brazil" and "Made-Up Lovesong #43". It was nominated for the 2006 Mercury Music Prize. The band have released one further single from the album, a re-recording of "Annie, Let's Not Wait", on January 15, 2007.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Little Bear" – 4:49
  2. "Made-Up Lovesong #43" – 3:41
  3. "Trains to Brazil" – 4:02
  4. "Redwings" – 6:02
  5. "Come Away with Me" – 3:10
  6. "Through the Windowpane" – 3:39
  7. "If the World Ends" – 6:20
  8. "We're Here" – 5:14
  9. "Blue Would Still Be Blue" – 5:14
  10. "Annie, Let's Not Wait" – 4:44
  11. "And If All..." – 1:19
  12. "São Paulo" – 11:42

[edit] Production

This album was produced by Fyfe Dangerfield with Chris Shaw ("Redwings", "Come Away With Me", "Through the Windowpane", "If the World Ends", "We're Here", "Annie Let's Not Wait" and "São Paulo"), Nick Ingman ("Little Bear"), Brian Mills (old tracks on "Made-Up Lovesong #43") and Joum "Turbo" Lucas ("Blue Would Still Be Blue").

[edit] Trivia

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Although the back album cover names track 5 as "Come Away With Me"[1], the track is incorrectly tagged as "A Samba In The Snowy Rain" by iTunes.

[edit] Song Information

The following is a list of musicians (excluding the four band members) who feature on the album (taken directly from the album booklet):

"Little Bear"

  1. An orchestra of strings

"Made-Up Lovesong #43"

  1. Shingai Shoniwa ("care"s + voice clicking)
  2. Brian Mills (tambourine + memoryman)

"Trains to Brazil"

  1. Christopher Cundy (soprano sax + bass clarinet)
  2. Alex J Ward (alto sax)
  3. John Martin (tenor sax)
  4. Gavin Broom (trumpet)
  5. Mr Trombone (trombone)
  6. Ed Millett (breaths)

"Redwings"

  1. Joan Wasser (singing and violin)
  2. The Aveley & Newham Brass Band (self-explanatory)

"Come Away With Me"

  1. Fulvio Sigurta (trumpet)

"Through the Windowpane"

  1. Fulvio Sigurta (trumpet)
  2. Adam Noble (the randomises)

"If the World Ends"

  1. Mara Carlyle ("ooh"s + a sung line)
  2. Another orchestra of strings

"We're Here"

  1. El Matthews B.P.S.C (spoken intro)
  2. Mara Carlyle ("ooh"s + saw)
  3. Yet more strings

"Blue Would Still Be Blue"

  1. Absolutely no-one but a bottle of wine

"Annie, Let's Not Wait"

  1. The insatiable charity shop samba band (percussion)
  2. The children of mots school, guilleford ("annie annie"s)

"And If All..."

  1. Mabel the ghost (guidance)

"São Paulo"

  1. Fulvio Sigurta (flugelhorn)
  2. Mara Carlyle (singing at the beginning)
  3. Steve Noble (rain rolls on the snare)
  4. Alex J Ward (alto sax)
  5. Christopher Cundy (soprano sax)
  6. A very big orchestra of string, wind, brass and percussion

Orchestra players were contracted by Isobel Griffiths. Orchestra leader - Gavyn Wright. Orchestra conducted by Nick Ingman.

[edit] External links

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