Album available to buy, listen and download at Kroogi
BG – guitar, vocals
Boris Rubekin – keyboards
Sasha Tivov – bass guitar
Igor Timofeev – guitar, flutes, saxophones and clarinet
Andrei Surotdinov – violins, viola
Alik Potapkin – drums
Oleg Shar – hand drums, darbuka, shakers, guiro
Djivan Gasparyan – duduk (3). Brian Finnegan – flutes (3, 5, 7, 12). Becky Taylor – uillean pipes (7, 12). Maria Pomyanowska – padudla (4). Alok Verma – tabla (2, 3, 7, 12). Manu Delago – hang drum (7). Alejandro Martinez – conga, shaker (10). John Joe Kelly – bodhran (12). Ric Sanders – fiddle (1, 2, 3, 11). Chris Leslie – mandolin (1, 5, 11). Clare Salaman – nyckelharpa, hurdy gurdy (1, 2, 11). Shamita Achenbach-Konig – cello (2, 6, 8, 10, 12). Pip Eastop – french horn, flugelhorn (9, 11). Erin Nolan – viola (6, 8, 10, 12). Nilasha Broughton – violin (6, 8, 10, 12). Dundubhi Dikel – violin (6, 8, 10, 12). Eddie Hession – accordion (10)
Contrabass – Aleksei Ivanov (2, 3, 4, 6). Cello – Nikolai Matveev (2, 3, 4, 6 ,9). Accordion – Evelina Petrova (2). Trombone – Evgenii Vasiliev and Boris Ivanov (2, 11). Tuba – Yanis Rushko (2, 11). Trumpet – Aleksei Popov(9)
Denis Rosov’s vocal quintet (9, 11): Denis Rosov – tenor, Alexandr Smirnov – profundo, Nikolai Agafonnikov – bariton, Alexandra Zhasminova – soprano, Maria Znakhur – alto.
Recorded in St.Petersburg and London (May – November, 2008): B. Rubekin – A. Dokshin (Studio 601, St. Petersburg), Jerry Boys (Livingston Studios, London). Mixed by Jerry Boys at The Livingston Studios.
All songs by BG
Drawings by Sri Chinmoi
Cover photo by Baldur Tryggvason
© 2008 BG