Lightyears (Shin Terai album)

Light Years

Studio album by Shin.e

Released

June 12, 2007

Genre

Electronic, Rock

Length

64:47

Label

ION

Producer

Bill Laswell

Shin.e chronology

Heaven & Hell
(2004)

Lightyears
(2007)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	(?)^[1]

Light Years is the third album by Japanese musician Shin Terai, released in 2007. For this album the band once again changed their name [The name of the group on this album is STILL Shine...The name of the ALBUM is "Lightyears", not the band](Shin Terai on Unison and Shine on Heaven & Hell). The album features contributions by regular members Buckethead (guitar), Bernie Worrell (keyboard), and bassist and producer Bill Laswell who included Ethiopian singer and his wife Gigi and their son Aman Laswell on vocals.

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Grid"	7:41
2.	"Transparent"	6:39
3.	"Solitude"	6:40
4.	"Interwoven"	6:20
5.	"Vector"	6:22
6.	"Vertical"	6:18
7.	"Accelerate"	7:07
8.	"Impact"	5:55
9.	"Between"	5:08
10.	"Erratum"	6:37

Credits

Guitar - Buckethead
Keyboards - Bernie Worrell
Strings - Karl Berger
Trumpet, Electronics - Nils Petter Molvær
Turntables - DXT
Violin - Lili Haydn
Vocals - Gigi
Voice - Aman Laswell
Programmed By (Beat) - Shin Terai
Engineer - Robert Musso
Engineer (Assistant) - James Dellatacoma
Producer - Bill Laswell
Mastered By - Michael Fossenkemper
Artwork By - John Brown

References

Review of the album

^ Allmusic review

Bill Laswell

Related people

Albums

Killing Time (1981)
Future Shock (1983)
Sound-System (1984)
Album (1986)
Instinct (1988)
The Burning World (1989)
Make Them Die Slowly (1989)
Brain Drain (1989)
Funk of Ages (1990)
Bucketheadland (1992)
Third Eye Open (1992)
Holy Terror (1993)
Pieces Of Woo: The Other Side (1993)
Giant Robot (1994)
Dreamatorium (1994)
Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud
Funkcronomicon (1995)
Day of the Robot (1996)
The Last Wave (1996)
Aftershock 2005 (1996)
Disembodied (1997)
Arc of the Testimony (1997)
Free Agent: A Spaced Odyssey (1997)
Future2Future (2001)
No Place to Be (2006)
Torn from Black Space (2009)

Bands

Method of Defiance	The Only Way To Go Is Down Inamorata Nihon

The Golden Palominos	The Golden Palominos Visions of Excess Blast of Silence A Dead Horse Drunk With Passion This Is How It Feels Pure Dead Inside

Material	About Time Temporary Music Memory Serves One Down Seven Souls Live at Soundscape The Third Power Live in Japan Hallucination Engine The Road to the Western Lands Intonarumori

Painkiller	Guts of a Virgin Buried Secrets Rituals: Live in Japan Execution Ground Painkiller: The Collected Works Talisman: Live in Nagoya 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 12

Praxis	Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis) Sacrifist Metatron Live in Poland Transmutation Live Collection Warszawa Zurich Tennessee 2004 Profanation (Preparation for a Coming Darkness)

Shin Terai	Unison Heaven & Hell Lightyears

Labels

Celluloid Records
Axiom
Innerhythmic
Subharmonic
Island Records
Palm Pictures

Buckethead

Studio albums

Bucketheadland (1992)
Giant Robot (1994)
The Day of the Robot (1996)
Colma (1998)
Monsters and Robots (1999)
Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse (2001)
Funnel Weaver (2002)
Bermuda Triangle (2002)
Electric Tears (2002)
Bucketheadland 2 (2003)
Island of Lost Minds (2004)
Population Override (2004)
The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell (2004)
Enter the Chicken (2005)
Kaleidoscalp (2005)
Inbred Mountain (2005)
The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock (2006)
Crime Slunk Scene (2006)
Pepper's Ghost (2007)
Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot (2007)
Cyborg Slunks (2007)
Albino Slug (2008)
Slaughterhouse on the Prairie (2009)
A Real Diamond in the Rough (2009)
Forensic Follies (2009)
Needle in a Slunk Stack (2009)
Shadows Between the Sky (2010)
Spinal Clock (2010)
Captain EO's Voyage (2010)
3 Foot Clearance (2010)
It's Alive (2011)
Empty Space (2011)
Underground Chamber (2011)
Look Up There (2011)
Electric Sea (2012)

Extended plays

KFC Skin Piles (2001)

Special releases

In Search of The (2007)
Acoustic Shards (2007)
Bucketheadland Blueprints (re-release) (2007)
From the Coop (2008)

Videos

Demos

Giant Robot (1991)
Bucketheadland Blueprints (1991)

Unreleased albums

Buckethead Plays Disney
Super Diorama Theater

As Death Cube K

Dreamatorium (1994)
Disembodied (1997)
Tunnel (1999)
DCK (2007)
Monolith (2007)
Torn from Black Space (2009)

Notable songs

"Welcome to Bucketheadland" (1994)
"Binge and Grab (instrumental version)" (1994)
"Big Sur Moon" (1998)
"The Ballad of Buckethead" (1999)
"Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse" (2001)
"Spokes for the Wheel of Torment" (2004)
"We Are One" (2005) "Botnus" (2005)
"Three Fingers" (2005)
Nottingham Lace" (2005) "Jordan" (2006)
"The Landing Beacon" (2009)

with Artists

Alix Lambert & Travis Dickerson	Running After Deer

Bryan "Brain" Mantia	Kevin's Noodle House Brain as Hamenoodle

Brain and Melissa Reese	Best Regards Kind Regards

Jonas Hellborg & Michael Shrieve	Octave of the Holy Innocents

Travis Dickerson	Chicken Noodles Chicken Noodles II Iconography Left Hanging

Travis Dickerson and Brain	The Dragons of Eden

Shin Terai	Unison Heaven & Hell Lightyears

Viggo Mortensen	One Less Thing to Worry About Recent Forgeries The Other Parade One Man's Meat Pandemoniumfromamerica Please Tomorrow This, That, and The Other Intelligence Failure At All Reunion

with Bands

Deli Creeps	Deli Creeps Demo Tape 1991 Deli Creeps Demo Tape 1996 Dawn of the Deli Creeps

Praxis	Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis) Sacrifist Metatron Live in Poland Transmutation Live Collection Warszawa Zurich Tennessee 2004 Profanation (Preparation for a Coming Darkness)

Cornbugs	Spot the Psycho Cemetery Pinch How Now Brown Cow Brain Circus Donkey Town Rest Home for Robots Skeleton Farm Celebrity Psychos Quackers! Headcheese

Thanatopsis	Thanatopsis Axiology Anatomize

Guns N' Roses	Chinese Democracy

Cobra Strike	13th Scroll Cobra Strike II: Y, Y+B, X+Y <hold> ←

Bands:
Pieces
Giant Robot
Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains
Gorgone
Science Faxtion
Frankenstein Brothers

Others:
Buckethead Discography

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Category:Buckethead