Waspstrumental Explained

Waspstrumental
Type:	studio
Artist:	XTC
Cover:	XTC - Waspstrumental.jpg
Released:	2002
Recorded:	April–December 1999, Idea Studios, Wiltshire and Chipping Norton Recording Studios, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Genre:	Pop rock
Length:	51:12
Language:	Instrumental
Label:	Idea
Producer:	Nick Davis
Chronology:	XTC other
Prev Title:	Instruvenus
Prev Year:	2002
Next Title:	Apple Box
Next Year:	2005

Waspstrumental is a 2002 instrumental version of XTC's Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2) album released in 2000 by Idea Records.

Track listing

UK CD: IDEACD 006

All songs written by Andy Partridge, except where noted.

1. "Playground" – 4:19
2. "Stupidly Happy" – 4:15
3. "In Another Life" (Colin Moulding) – 3:35
4. "My Brown Guitar" – 3:52
5. "Boarded Up" (Moulding) – 3:23
6. "I'm the Man Who Murdered Love" – 3:48
7. "We're All Light" – 4:43
8. "Standing in for Joe" (Moulding) – 3:40
9. "Wounded Horse" – 4:12
10. "You and the Clouds Will Still Be Beautiful" – 4:18
11. "Church of Women" – 5:01
12. "The Wheel and the Maypole" – 6:06

Personnel

XTC

• Colin Moulding – bass guitar
• Andy Partridge – guitar

Additional musicians

• Caroline Dale – cello
• Nick Davis – keyboards
• Simon Gardner – flugelhorn
• Patrick Kiernan – violin
• Peter Lale – viola
• Prairie Prince – drums (2, 3, 4, 12)
• Chuck Sabo – drums (1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
• Kate St. John – oboe
• Matt Vaughn – programming
• Gavin Wright – violin

Production

• Haydn Bendall – recording engineering
• Nick Davis – producer, mixing, recording engineering
• Simon Dawson – mix engineer
• Alan Douglas – recording engineering
• Barry Hammond – recording engineering
• Ian Cooper at Metropolis – mastering

References