Pergola (album)

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Pergola
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Studio album by
Released23 April 2001
Recorded1999–2001
StudioStudio Sound Enterprise, Weesp
Genre Pop
Label Excelsior Recordings
Producer Johan & Frans Hagenaars
Johan chronology
Johan
(1996)
Pergola
(2001)
THX JHN
(2006)
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Pergola is the second studio album by Johan, released in 2001, five years after their debut album Johan . Both albums were released on the record label Excelsior Recordings. The album was well received by the press. On 6 May 2002, the album was released with a different cover in Germany. The album was named after the street in the Dutch city of Hoorn where lead singer Jacco de Greeuw  [ nl ] lived at the time. [1] [2] In 2009, the band received a gold record for Pergola. It had been sold over 30.000 times by that point, making it the band's best selling album. [3] The album has been described as "being part of the canon of Dutch pop music". [4]

Contents

De Greeuw wrote the album while battling depression and grief over the death of his father.

Track listing

  1. "Tumble and Fall"
  2. "Pergola"
  3. "I Mean I Guess"
  4. "Tomorrow"
  5. "Day is Done"
  6. "I Feel Fine"
  7. "Paper Planes"
  8. "Save Game"
  9. "How Does It Feel"
  10. "Why_CP"
  11. "Time and Time Again"
  12. "Here"

Personnel

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