Stick Man (album)

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Stick Man
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 25, 2007
Recorded2007
Genre Progressive rock, progressive metal
Length58:15
Label Lazy Bones Recordings
Producer Scott Schorr & Tony Levin
Tony Levin chronology
Resonator
(2006)
Stick Man
(2007)

Stick Man is Tony Levin's sixth studio album published in 2007. The album showcases Levin's skills on the Chapman stick, as well as the electric bass and NS Upright bass. Most of the seventeen tracks are instrumental, though there are three songs with vocals by Levin. King Crimson bandmate Pat Mastelotto plays drums on eleven of the tracks.

Contents

Track listing

All compositions by Tony Levin.

  1. "Welcome" - 4:12
  2. "Gut String Theory" - 3:27
  3. "Speedbump" - 2:48
  4. "Slow Glide" - 4:00
  5. "Shraag" - 4:25
  6. "Not Just Another Pretty Bass" - 3:22
  7. "El Mercado" - 2:27
  8. "Orange Alert" - 2:32
  9. "In her Locket" - 3:58
  10. "Rising Waters" - 3:16
  11. "Metro" - 4:21
  12. "Zeros to Disk" - 3:23
  13. "Sticky Fingers" - 2:27
  14. "Rivers of Light" - 4:24
  15. "Chop Shop" - 2:53
  16. "The Gorgon Sisters Have a Chat" - 2:31
  17. "Dark Blues" - 3:39

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