Danseparc was Martha and the Muffins

Martha and the Muffins

Martha and the Muffins are a Canadian new wave band, active from 1977 to the present. Although they only had one major international hit single under their original band name, they had a number of hits in their native Canada, and the core members of the band also charted in Canada and...

' fourth album, recorded in 1982 at Grant Avenue Studios in Hamilton

Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...

, Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

, Canada

Canada

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 and released in 1983.

This long out-of-print album was reissued on CD through the band's own Muffin Music imprint in North America with a release date of June 25th, 2008. Three additional bonus tracks include the original extended dance version of “Danseparc”, “These Dangerous Machines” and a live version of “Sins Of Children” from MatM’s performance at Ontario Place in 1983 featuring avant-guitarist Michael Brook

Michael Brook

Michael Brook is a Canadian guitarist, inventor, producer, and film music composer. He plays in many genres, including rock, electronica, world music, minimalism and film scores....

. On August 4th, 2008 Cherry Records rereleased the album in the UK.
Bass player Jocelyne Lanois

Jocelyne Lanois

Jocelyne Lanois is a Canadian musician, bassplayer and songwriter from Hull, Quebec, who has been a member of the bands Martha and the Muffins and Crash Vegas. She has also had touring stints as bassplayer with Ani DiFranco and Chris Whitley, and played on Sarah McLachlan's album Solace...

 is the sister of producer Daniel Lanois

Daniel Lanois

Daniel Lanois born September 19, 1951 in Hull, Quebec) is a Canadian record producer, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. He has released a number of albums of his own work and has produced albums for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, Willie...

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Track listing

Personnel

• Martha Johnson
  Martha Johnson
  Martha Johnson is a Canadian pop singer and songwriter, best known as the vocalist for the 1980s new wave band Martha and the Muffins...
  
   - guitar, keyboards, vocals
• Mark Gane - guitar, keyboards, vocals
• Jocelyne Lanois
  Jocelyne Lanois
  Jocelyne Lanois is a Canadian musician, bassplayer and songwriter from Hull, Quebec, who has been a member of the bands Martha and the Muffins and Crash Vegas. She has also had touring stints as bassplayer with Ani DiFranco and Chris Whitley, and played on Sarah McLachlan's album Solace...
  
   - bass
• Daniel Lanois
  Daniel Lanois
  Daniel Lanois born September 19, 1951 in Hull, Quebec) is a Canadian record producer, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. He has released a number of albums of his own work and has produced albums for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, Willie...
  
   - treatments
• Nick Gane - stnthesizer, piano
• Glenn Schellenberg
  Glenn Schellenberg
  Glenn Schellenberg is a Canadian composer. He is a frequent collaborator of director John Greyson, having composed the music for three of Greyson's films. For one of these films, Zero Patience, Schellenberg was nominated, along with Greyson, for a Genie Award for Best Song for the song, "Just...
  
   - synthesizer
• Nick Kent - drums, percussion
• Dick Smith - percussion
• Ron Allen - saxophone
• John Oswald
  John Oswald (composer)
  John Oswald is a Canadian composer, saxophonist, media artist and dancer. His best known project is Plunderphonics, the practice of making new music out of previously existing recordings .-Philosophy:Oswald coined the term "plunderphonics" to describe his craft in a paper called which he...
  
  - saxophone
• Debbie Griffiths - background vocals