Profiles (Nick Mason and Rick Fenn album) explained

Profiles
Type:	studio
Artist:	Nick Mason and Rick Fenn
Cover:	NM-Profiles.jpg
Recorded:	1984–1985
Studio:	Britannia Row Studios (London)
Genre:	Art pop synth-pop instrumental rock progressive pop
Label:	Harvest (UK) Columbia (US)
Producer:	Rick Fenn Nick Mason
Prev Title:	Fictitious Sports
Prev Year:	1981
Next Title:	White of the Eye
Next Year:	1987

Profiles is Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason's second studio album and 10cc guitarist Rick Fenn's debut studio album. It was released on 29 July 1985 by Harvest Records. The album (along with Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports and the soundtrack to the film White of the Eye) was remastered and reissued on 31 August 2018 as part of the box set Unattended Luggage.^[1]

Songs

The album is almost entirely instrumental, save for two songs; "Lie for a Lie", featuring Pink Floyd's lead vocalist and guitarist David Gilmour with singer Maggie Reilly, and "Israel", sung by UFO keyboardist Danny Peyronel.

Track listing

All tracks written by Rick Fenn and Nick Mason, except where noted.

Side one

1. "Malta" – 6:00
2. "Lie for a Lie" (Fenn, Mason, Danny Peyronel) – 3:16
3. "Rhoda" – 3:22
4. "Profiles Part 1/Profiles Part 2" – 9:58

Side two

5. "Israel" (Fenn, Peyronel) – 3:30
6. "And the Address" – 2:45
7. "Mumbo Jumbo" – 3:53
8. "Zip Code" – 3:05
9. "Black Ice" – 3:37
10. "At the End of the Day" – 2:35
11. "Profiles Part 3" – 1:55

Non-album track

1. "Lie for a Lie" (Fenn, Mason, Peyronel) (12" Mix) – 5:54

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the Profiles liner notes.^[2]

Musicians

• Nick Mason — drums, keyboards, percussion, composing
• Rick Fenn — guitars, keyboards, composing
• Mel Collins — saxophone on "Rhoda", "And the Address", "Mumbo Jumbo", and "Black Ice"
• David Gilmour — vocals on "Lie for a Lie"
• Maggie Reilly — vocals on "Lie for a Lie"
• Danny Peyronel — vocals on "Israel"
• Craig Pruess — Emulator brass on "Malta"
• Aja Fenn — keyboard intro on "Malta"

Notes and References

1. Blistein . Jon . Pink Floyd's Nick Mason Preps Solo Albums Box Set . . 23 November 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210518090013/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pink-floyds-nick-mason-preps-solo-albums-box-set-627775/ . 18 May 2021 . 12 June 2018.
2. Profiles. Nick Mason and Rick Fenn. 1985. Harvest Records. CD booklet.