Tales of Acid Ice Cream

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Tales of Acid Ice Cream
Tales of Acid Ice Cream cover
Studio album by Awaken
Released 1996
Recorded 1995
Genre pop, disco
Length 70 minutes
Producer Gilles Snowcat, Fred Scalliet
Professional reviews
Awaken chronology
Tales of Acid Ice Cream
(1996)		 Party In Lyceum's Toilets
(2001)

Tales of Acid Ice Cream is the first album of music project Awaken, released in 1996.

Contents

[edit] History

Tales Of Acid Ice Cream has been done in two times : the keyboard sequences first, then in studio for the real instruments and voices. Most of the songs had a previous version on demo tapes, that had been completely re-recorded for the album.

[edit] Controversy

  • The booklet says Awaken is a quintet with two guests, but the main group doesn't play together in any of the tracks. The guitarist appears on two songs only, while the bassist on a single one. Every musician has played on previous demo tapes though, except guest Philippe Tasquin.
  • The word acid of the title doesn't refer to drug but to citric acid, and used as a metaphor to depict the melancholic mood of the lyrics.

[edit] Trivia

  • Thanks to the cover of Al Stewart's "Last Days Of The Century", Gilles Snowcat was invited to jam with Stewart in 1999. See site : Al Stewart and Awaken pics.
  • The two guest musicians, Vincent Trouble and Philippe Tasquin, existed as a duo on the Belgian scene in the early 90's : Tasquin Contre Trouble. Ironically, the don't appear together on any song of Tales Of Acid Ice Cream.

[edit] Track listing

  1. Nursery Nymph
  2. Tunefully Misused
  3. 1000 Days of Yesterdays -intro- (cover from Captain Beyond) / Last Days of the Century (cover from Al Stewart)
  4. Sleep Position # 68
  5. Requiem for a Golden Destiny
  6. Numbness of Highlights
  7. Memories of a Teenage Cat
  8. Doom Entry
  9. I Am Love (cover from Jackson Five) / Rescue (cover from Manfred Mann's Earth Band)
  10. Welcome to the 'House X' / Nostalgic Noom
  11. Blurping the Blurp
  12. Spirits of 1983
  13. This Time Around / Blind / Owed to 'G' (covers from Deep Purple)
  14. A Simple Love
  15. The Tale of the Magic Thursday
  16. Zlurp
  17. Nothing Could Be Good (cover from Bee Gees)
  18. Thin Crash Virus
  19. Winter Dancer Tale
  20. Still Alive (cover from Patrick Juvet)
  21. Wednesday Mayday

[edit] Musicians

  • P'tit Bout : vocals
  • Yves Larivierre : guitar
  • Gina Mainardi : vocals
  • Cedric Mattys : bass
  • Gilles Snowcat : keyboards, programming, vocals
  • Aurélia Thirion : vocals, add. keyboards

[edit] Guest musicians

  • Vincent Trouble : accordion
  • Philippe Tasquin : violin

[edit] Design

Caroline Redondo, Marie Bruwier, Laetitia Van Canneyt, Gilles Snowcat, Peter Clasen.

[edit] Availability

Collector. Catalog number : awalp-001

[edit] Outtakes

No outtake had been recorded. The original tapes being nowhere to be found, remastering the album became impossible.

[edit] Some reviews and references

[edit] External links