Reasons for Voyaging | |
Type: | studio |
Artist: | Atlas |
Cover: | Reasonsforvoyaging.jpg |
Released: | 19 November 2007 |
Recorded: | July 2006 – October 2007 at Roundhouse studios in Auckland, New Zealand |
Genre: | Rock |
Length: | 50:06 |
Label: | Elements Music, Warner Bros. Records |
Producer: | David Nicholas and Hank Linderman |
Reasons for Voyaging is the debut album by New Zealand-based rock band Atlas, released on 19 November 2007. The album was recorded with David Nicholas (Pulp, Ash, Elton John and INXS) and produced by Hank Linderman (The Beach Boys, Eagles) at Neil Finn's Roundhead Studios in Auckland.
The album is named after a sculpture by New Zealand sculptor Graham Bennett. The sculpture is said to, "Convey a sense of arrival and departure, invitation and challenge, and encourages us to consider to experiences and motivations of all visitors to New Zealand, including Maori and Polynesian voyager, European settlers and recent migrants."[1]