Mosaics (Mark Heard album)

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Mosaics
MosaicsAlbum.jpg
Studio album by
Released1985
Studio Fingerprint Recorders, Montrose, California
Genre Folk, rock
Label Home Sweet Home
Producer Mark Heard
Mark Heard chronology
Ashes and Light
(1984)
Mosaics
(1985)
Tribal Opera
(1987)
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Mosaics is an album by Mark Heard, released in 1985 on Home Sweet Home Records. [2] According to the liner notes in Ashes and Light , this album was recorded first but delayed by the record company who wanted the less rock-oriented Ashes released first. Consequently, this was the first album recorded in Heard's own Fingerprint Recording Studio.

Contents

Album cover

The cover art included a mosaic of a photo of Heard. The photo was cut up into tiny squares. The sections were then sent to friends, musicians and onlookers to paint or scribble on. The pieces were brought back together and reassembled in a computer for the final album cover. The cover artists were Tim Alderson, Bill Batstone, Christian Benz, T-Bone Burnett, Tim Chandler, Nancy Clark, Dave de Coup-Crank, Terry Currin, Vernettie Currin, Alex Disch, David Edwards, Rowena Emmett-Stelmach, Maria Finch Chandler, Margrit Geissler, Peter Geissler, Hansruedi Graf, Heard's wife Janet, Heard's parents Jean and John Heard, Mark Heard, Susan Heard, actor Jerry Houser, Tom Howard, Tonio K., Barry Miller Kaye, Martin Kurz, L'Abri volunteers, Christa Laderach, Peter Laderach, Angy von Lerber, Jean Daniel von Lerber, Ed McTaggart, John Mehler, Lynda Mehler, Sye and Ina Mitchell, Leslie Phillips, Gian Sandri, Prisca Sandri, Edith Schaeffer, David Stelmach, Randy Stonehill, Terry Scott Taylor, Pam Terry, Pat Terry, Christie Tickner, David Tickner, Ray and Sue Ware.

Track listing

All songs written by Mark Heard, except "Power of Love" by T-Bone Burnett and "Miracle" by Mark Heard and Tonio K.

Side one

  1. "With Broken Wings" - 4:18
  2. "Schizophrenia" - 3:46
  3. "All Is Not Lost" - 2:54
  4. "Heart On the Line" - 4:11
  5. "He Plays the Game" - 3:09

Side two

  1. "The Golden Age" - 4:11
  2. "The Power of Love " - 3:46
  3. "I Want You" - 3:52
  4. "It Will Not Be Like This Forever" - 4:21
  5. "Miracle" - 4:53

Personnel

The band

Production notes

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References

  1. AllMusicreview
  2. Powell, Mark Allan (2002). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers. p. 407. ISBN   978-1565636798.