Retrospective (Monkey House album) explained
| Retrospective |
| Type: | Compilation |
| Artist: | Monkey House |
| Cover: | Retrospective Monkey House album cover.jpg |
| Released: | [1] |
| Genre: | Jazz rock[2] [3] |
| Label: | GDM Records |
| Prev Title: | Headquarters |
| Prev Year: | 2012 |
| Next Title: | Left |
| Next Year: | 2016 |
Retrospective is an anthology album by the music group Monkey House, which was released in 2013 on the Green Dolphin Music label. Monkey House is a rock/pop/jazz group led by Don Breithaupt.[4] This release has a total of 44 tracks: 38 songs, plus six interviews. It includes almost every tune from their first two albums, Welcome to the Club (1992), and True Winter (1998), and also has four newer songs that were on the 2005 release entitled Big Money: Singles Remasters Rarities 1992-2005.[5] Additionally, six tunes not previously released are on this anthology album, five of them being instrumentals, as well as the tune "I'm Not That Guy" from the Headquarters (2012 album) sessions, but had not been included on that album.[1] Special guests include Little Feat drummer Richie Hayward and former Pat Metheny Group member David Blamires.[1]
Track listing
All songs written by Don Breithaupt
Personnel
- Don Breithaupt - lead and backup vocals, keyboards, percussion, arranger, producer
- Rich Dodson - producer, guitar
- Mark Kelso – drums on track 1, brushes, hi-hat
- Richie Hayward - drums
- Rick Gratton - drums
- Pat Kilbride - bass on track 1
- Mike Francis - guitar, electric sitar
- John David (Dave) Dunlop - guitar
- Kenny Vehkavaara - guitar
- Asher Horowitz - guitar
- Peter Smith - guitar
- Carlos Lopes - guitar
- Anthony Vanderburgh - guitar
- Kevin Breit - guitar, mandolin, backup vocals
- Burke Carroll - pedal steel guitar
- Perry White – saxophone
- John Johnson – saxophones, EWI
- Tony Carlucci - trumpet
- Dave Dunlop - cornet, trumpet
- Gord Myers - trombone
- Terry Promane - trombone
- Rikki Rumball - backup vocals, lead vocal on tracks 20 & 33
- David Blamires - backup vocals
- Lorraine Lawson - backup vocals
- Debbie Johnson - backup vocals
- Suzanne Zrinscak - backup vocals
- Densil Pinnock - backup vocals, scat & octave vocals on track 24
- Jeff Breithaupt - character voice on track 13
- Aashna - voices
- MC Squared - rap lines on track 13
- Ross Breithaupt - congas
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Monkey House | Retrospective | CD Baby Music Store . Cdbaby.com . 2016-10-25.
- Web site: Monkey House - Chart history . Billboard . 2016-06-25 . 2016-10-23.
- Web site: Monkey House – Welcome to the Club (1992, CD). Discogs.
- Web site: 2016-06-03 . Monkey House . 2016-10-25 . Alma Records.
- News: Frazier . Preston . 2016-06-12 . Don Breithaupt, of Monkey House: Something Else! Interview . en-US . Something Else! . 2018-12-04.
