Birds of Passage (album) explained

Birds of Passage
Type:	Album
Artist:	Bel Canto
Cover:	Birds of Passage (album).jpg
Released:	1989 March 6, 1990 (second pressing)
Genre:	Dream pop, synth-pop, new age
Label:	Crammed Discs CRAM 065 I.R.S./MCA (first pressing) IRSD-82031 I.R.S./EMI (second pressing) 0220 7 13031 2 5 X2-13031 Nettwerk
Prev Title:	White-Out Conditions
Prev Year:	1987
Next Title:	Shimmering, Warm and Bright
Next Year:	1992

Birds of Passage is the second album by the Norwegian band Bel Canto.

Track listing

1. "Intravenous" (Drecker, Drecker, Jenssen) – 3:18
2. "Birds of Passage" (Jenssen, Johansen, Johansen) – 5:26
3. "The Glassmaker" (Drecker, Jenssen) – 4:27
4. "A Shoulder to the Wheel" (Drecker, Drecker, Johansen) – 4:16
5. "Time Without End" (Johansen, Johansen) – 5:01
6. "Oyster" (Drecker, Drecker) – 3:04
7. "Continuum" (Del Valle, Drecker, Jenssen) – 4:34
8. "Dewy Fields" (Drecker, Jenssen, Johansen) – 4:01
9. "The Suffering" (Drecker, Drecker, Jenssen) – 4:05
10. "Picnic on the Moon" (Drecker, Drecker, Jenssen) – 4:39
11. "Look 3" (Drecker, Jenssen) – 4:32

Personnel

• Bel Canto – Producer
• Stefan de Batselier – Photography
• Michel Delory – Guitar, drums
• Anneli Marian Drecker – Piano, keyboards, vocals
• Jeannot Gillis – Violin, viola, string arrangements
• Marc Hollander – Clarinet, percussion, keyboards, producer
• Geir Jenssen – Piano, keyboards, programming, photography, Roland TR-808
• Nils Johansen – Bass, bouzouki, guitar, mandolin, programming, vocals, script
• Giles Martin – Producer, engineer
• Claudine Steenackers – Cello
• Luc van Lieshout – Trumpet, flugelhorn