A Return to the Inner Experience explained

A Return to the Inner Experience
Type:	studio
Artist:	Sky Cries Mary
Cover:	Sky Cries Mary - A Return to the Inner Experience.jpg
Released:	1993
Recorded:	Brilliant Studios, San Francisco, California
Genre:	Neo-psychedelia, space rock, trance
Length:	70:01
Label:	Capitol
Producer:	Norman Kerner
Prev Title:	Exit at the Axis
Prev Year:	1992
Next Title:	This Timeless Turning
Next Year:	1994

A Return to the Inner Experience is the second album by the American band Sky Cries Mary, released in 1993 through Capitol Records.^{[1] [2]} "Gone" was released as a single.^[3]

Critical reception

The Washington Post noted that "the sometimes-realized intention is to be trippy, although a few of the 14 meandering tracks on this 70-minute album are more soporific than transcendent."^[4]

Personnel

Sky Cries Mary

• DJ Fallout – sampler, turntables, drum machine
• Joseph E. Howard – double bass, mellotron, sitar
• Ben Ireland – drums, percussion
• Marc Olsen – guitar
• Gordon Raphael – keyboards
• Anisa Romero – vocals, art direction
• Roderick Wolgamott Romero – vocals, art direction

Production and additional personnel

• Beth Custer – bass clarinet on "Buss to Gate 23"
• Joe Gastwirt – mastering
• Norman Kerner – production, engineering, mixing
• Tommy Steele – art direction
• Stephen Walker – art direction, design

Notes and References

1. Web site: Grant . Alden . Sky Cries Mary . . 2007 . March 30, 2013.
2. News: Reader . Stephanie . HOME-MADE JAM . The News Tribune . 3 Sep 1993 . G3.
3. News: Stout . Gene . A QUICK SAMPLE OF SEATTLE SOUNDS . Seattle Post-Intelligencer . September 5, 1993 . C3.
4. News: Jenkins . Mark . Potent Rollers, Multicolored Sky . The Washington Post . 22 Oct 1993 . N24.