Semi-Gloss (album)

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Semi-Gloss
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Studio album by Semi-Gloss
Released June 3, 1997
Recorded Studio .45, Hartford, Connecticut
Genre Alternative rock
Length45:21
Label Dirt Records (DIRT 034)
Semi-Gloss chronology
Teenie
(1996) Teenie1996
Semi-Gloss
(1997)
The Falling Kind
(2000) The Falling Kind2000

Semi-Gloss is the 1997 self-titled debut studio album by Semi-Gloss.

Semi-Gloss

Semi-Gloss is a now-defunct alternative pop/rock band from the East Village in New York City.

Contents

A different recording of the song "Morning Takes the Night" appears on the band's previous EP, Teenie . The song "Eight Million Strong" appears on Teenie; the version on Semi-Gloss is a remix.

The album cover design was inspired by the 1956 Blue Note recording Volume One by Sonny Rollins.

Sonny Rollins American jazz saxophonist and composer

Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins is an American jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. In a seven-decade career, he has recorded over sixty albums as a leader. A number of his compositions, including "St. Thomas", "Oleo", "Doxy", "Pent-Up House", and "Airegin", have become jazz standards. Rollins has been called "the greatest living improviser" and the "Saxophone Colossus".

Track listing

All songs written by Jordy Mokriski except where noted.

  1. "Sans Expliquer" (Mokriski, Verena Wiesendanger) – 6:01
  2. "The Sunburn Song" – 5:45
  3. "Eight Million Strong" (David Kinnoin, Mokriski) – 3:24
  4. "Free" – 3:17
  5. "Summer Fields" – 4:01
  6. "A Reason Why" – 3:26
  7. "Latenight Stroll" – 3:25
  8. "Groupie's Lament" – 5:35
  9. "Whistlin' Girl" – 2:34
  10. "Morning Takes the Night" – 5:43
  11. "The Majestic" (Candice Belanoff, Mokriski) – 3:33

Personnel

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