Mouth to Mouth (Levellers album)

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Mouth to Mouth
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Studio album by
Released25 August 1997
Recorded1997 at the Metway, Brighton
Genre Rock, alternative rock, folk punk
Length48:41
Label China
Producer Jon Kelly
Levellers chronology
Zeitgeist
(1995)
Mouth to Mouth
(1997)
One Way of Life
(1998)
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Mouth to Mouth is the fifth studio album by the Levellers. It was released on the China label in 1997 and peaked at #5 in the UK album charts.

Album collection of recorded music, words, sounds

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a collection on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78-rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP records played at ​33 13 rpm. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format widely used alongside vinyl from the 1970s into the first decade of the 2000s.

Levellers (band) English folk rock band

The Levellers are an English folk rock band formed in Brighton, England in 1988, consisting of Mark Chadwick, Jeremy Cunningham, Charlie Heather (drums), Jon Sevink (violin), Simon Friend, and Matt Savage (keyboards). Taking their name from the Levellers political movement, the band released their first EP in 1989 and LP in 1990, with international success following upon signing to China Records and the release of their second album Levelling the Land. The band were once considered the most popular Indie band in Britain, enjoying their greatest period of success in the 1990s, with their popularity culminating in their record breaking headlining act at Glastonbury Festival in 1994, when they performed on The Pyramid Stage to a crowd of 300,000 people, a record which still stands to this day. Self-described as having "a left wing view of politics", they continue to record and tour.

China Records record label

China Records was a record label founded 1 October 1984 by Derek Green. Its top-selling artists were Art of Noise, Morcheeba and The Levellers.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Dog Train"
  2. "Beautiful Day"
  3. "Celebrate"
  4. "Rain and Snow"
  5. "Far Away"
  6. "C.C.T.V."
  7. "Chemically Free"
  8. "Elation"
  9. "Captains' Courageous"
  10. "Survivors"
  11. "Sail Away"
  12. "Too Real"

The 2007 re-issue of this album also contained the bonus tracks:

  1. "Bar Room Jury"
  2. "Angels"
  3. "All Your Dreams"
  4. "Windows"

Personnel

Musicians

Eddi Reader Scottish singer-songwriter

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Kick Horns are a UK horn section based in London. They have worked prolifically as session musicians with a wide variety of performers, and have also recorded as an ensemble. The Kick Horns were established in the 1980s by Simon C. Clarke and Tim Sanders on saxophones, and Roddy Lorimer on trumpet.

Production staff

Jon Kelly is a British audio engineer and record producer, who began his career as an engineer at Air London Studios. He has produced albums and singles for Chris Rea, The Damned, Kate Bush, Pele, The Beautiful South, Prefab Sprout, Deacon Blue, Heather Nova, Rosalie Deighton, The Levellers, Fish, Lynsey de Paul, Mickey Joe Harte, Nolwenn Leroy and Richard Ashcroft. He also mixed several tracks on Tori Amos’s debut album, Little Earthquakes.

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