Déjà Fou Explained

Déjà Fou
Type:	studio
Artist:	Strawbs
Cover:	deja fou.jpg
Genre:	British folk rock
Length:	57:15
Label:	Witchwood
Producer:	Dave Cousins
Prev Title:	Blue Angel
Prev Year:	2003
Next Title:	Full Bloom
Next Year:	2005

Déjà Fou is the 16th studio album by English band Strawbs. The title is a play on the phrase déjà vu, French for "already seen", as the band line-up had been seen 30 years before on the Hero and Heroine album. The phrase déjà fou literally means "already mad". The album delivers the kind of British folk rock the band had built its reputation on.^[1]

Track listing

1. "Riviera dei Fiori" (Dave Cousins, Dave Lambert) – 1:43
2. "Under a Cloudless Sky" (Cousins) – 5:16
3. "Face Down in the Well" (Cousins) – 5:55
4. "On a Night Like This" (Cousins) – 2:27
5. "If" (Cousins) – 5:07
6. "Cold Steel" (Lambert)) – 5:07
7. "Sunday Morning" (Cousins, Lambert) – 3:24
8. "This Barren Land" (Cousins, Lambert) – 4:47
9. "When the Lights Came On" (Lambert) – 5:43
10. "Russian Front" (Cousins, Chas Cronk, John Hawken, Lambert) – 5:40
11. "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow" (Cousins) – 4:14
12. "NRG" (Cousins) – 4:09

Personnel

Strawbs

• Dave Cousins – lead vocals, backing vocals, guitar, banjo, mandolin, chromaharp
• Dave Lambert – lead vocals, backing vocals, guitar
• Chas Cronk – backing vocals, bass guitar, guitar
• John Hawken – keyboards
• Rod Coombes – drums, percussion

Additional personnel

• Chris While – vocals
• Julie Matthews – vocals
• Adam Wakeman - piano
• Robert Kirby – French horn, string arrangements
• Michael Humphrey – violin
• Paul Robson – violin
• Jonathan Welch – viola
• Rebecca Gilliver – cello
• Nick Worters – double bass

Recording

Recorded at KD's Studio, Chiswick, London

• Dave Cousins – producer
• Kenny Denton, Chas Cronk – engineers
• Roger Wake – mastering^[2]

External links

• Déjà Fou on Strawbsweb

Notes and References

1. Web site: Déjà Fou Review. AllMusic. Jimmy James.
2. Sleeve notes to DC WMCD 2020 Déjà Fou