Plenty (album)
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Plenty is the third album from Red Box, and was released on 11 October 2010.
. Subsequently, these tracks were made available as digital downloads
under the name The Plenty Sessions.
: Red Box - Plenty samples page.
"Hurricane"
"Without"
"Plenty"
"The Sign"
"Brighter Blue"
"I've Been Thinking of You"
"Don't Let Go"
"Say What's in Your Head"
"It's True"
"Sacred Wall"
"Let It Rain"
"Green"
"Never Let It Be Said"
"Once I Dreamed"
"Take My Hand for a While"
Music video
The Plenty Sessions
The album was also released as a "Limited Edition" which included an exclusive six track bonus CDCompact Disc
The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...
. Subsequently, these tracks were made available as digital downloads
Music download
A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...
under the name The Plenty Sessions.
Sales performance
Plenty was Cherry Red Records' best selling album for the months October to December 2010.Audio previews
Five tracks from the album can be previewed in their entirety on the SoundCloudSoundCloud
SoundCloud is an online audio distribution platform which allows collaboration, promotion and distribution of audio recordings.-History:SoundCloud was originally started in Stockholm, Sweden, but was established in Berlin, Germany in August, 2007 by sound designer Alex Ljung and artist Eric Wahlforss...
: Red Box - Plenty samples page.
Cherry Red Records CD: CDBRED470
Cherry Red Records Bonus CD: CDXRED471 - "The Plenty Sessions"
Musicians
"Stay"- Simon Toulson-ClarkeSimon Toulson-ClarkeSimon Toulson-Clarke is the lead singer and a founder member of the 1980s/1990s pop group Red Box. In the late 1970s he studied in London at the Polytechnic of Central London where he formed the band along with Julian Close, Paddy Talbot, Rob Legge and Martin Nickson.He released an album in 1997...
- Lead vocalLead vocalistThe lead vocalist is the member of a band who sings the main vocal portions of a song. They may also play one or more instruments. Lead vocalists are sometimes referred to as the frontman or frontwoman, and as such, are usually considered to be the "leader" of the groups they perform in, often the...
and acoustic guitarAcoustic guitarAn acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound... - Derek Adams - Acoustic guitar
- Steve Carr - Harmony vocalVocal harmonyVocal harmony is a style of vocal music in which a consonant note or notes are sung at the same time as a main melody in a predominantly homophonic texture. Vocal harmonies are used in many subgenres of European art music, including Classical choral music and opera and in the popular styles from...
and harmonicaHarmonicaThe harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes... - Simon Cole - PianoPianoThe piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
- Munch - OrganOrgan (music)The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...
- Alastair Gavin - StringString sectionThe string section is the largest body of the standard orchestra and consists of bowed string instruments of the violin family.It normally comprises five sections: the first violins, the second violins, the violas, the cellos, and the double basses...
arrangementArrangementThe American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...
"Hurricane"
- Simon Toulson-Clarke - Lead vocal and acoustic guitar
- Derek Adams - Electric guitarElectric guitarAn electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
and drumsDrumThe drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a... - Paul Bond - Electric guitar
- Ty Unwin - KeyboardsElectronic keyboardAn electronic keyboard is an electronic or digital keyboard instrument.The major components of a typical modern electronic keyboard are:...
- Lloyd Green - Bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
"Without"
- Simon Toulson-Clarke - Lead vocal, acoustic and electric guitars
- Steve Carr - Harmony vocal and bass guitar
- Derek Adams - Drums and electric guitar
- Emily MaguireEmily Maguire (singer)Emily Lucy Maguire is an independent English singer songwriter. She has released three albums to date which are distributed through Universal by Active Media. All the songs are written and composed by Maguire. She runs her own record label Shaktu Records with her partner Christian Dunham...
- Backwards violaViolaThe viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...
and celloCelloThe cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is... - Simon Cole - Organ
- Alastair Gavin - Additional organ
"Plenty"
- Simon Toulson-Clarke - Lead vocal and acoustic guitar
- Steve Carr - Harmony vocal, bass guitar and melodicaMelodicaThe melodica, also known as the "blow-organ" or "key-flute", is a free-reed instrument similar to the melodeon and harmonica. It has a musical keyboard on top, and is played by blowing air through a mouthpiece that fits into a hole in the side of the instrument. Pressing a key opens a hole,...
- Alastair Gavin - Organ
- Simon Cole - Drums
- Derek Adams - Backing vocalBacking vocalistA backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
and percussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration... - Paul Bond - Backing vocal
"The Sign"
- Simon Toulson-Clarke - Lead vocal, acoustic, electric and bass guitars
- Derek Adams - Acoustic guitar, drums and backing vocal
- Paul Bond - Electric guitar and backing vocal
- Ty Unwin - Keyboards and strings
- Emily Maguire, Lorna Gallagher and Julia Hobsbawn - Box Vox
- Simon Toulson-Clarke and Alastair Gavin - String arrangement
"Brighter Blue"
- Simon Toulson-Clarke - Lead vocal and acoustic guitar
- Derek Adams - MandolinMandolinA mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
, drums and percussion - Emily Maguire - Viola and harmony vocal
- Jonathan Isley - Acoustic guitar
- Frey Smith - Double bassDouble bassThe double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
- Steve Carr - Harmony vocal
"I've Been Thinking of You"
- Simon Toulson-Clarke - Lead vocal, acoustic and bass guitars
- Steve Carr - Harmony vocal, acoustic guitar and harmonica
- Simon Cole - Piano
- Derek Adams - Drums
- Emily Maguire - Cello
"Don't Let Go"
- Simon Toulson-Clarke - Lead vocal, acoustic and electric guitars
- Steve Carr - Harmony vocal and bass guitar
- Derek Adams - Drums
- Simon Cole - Piano
- Paul Bond - Electric guitar
- Ty Unwin - Keyboards
- Alastair Gavin - Additional string arrangement
"Say What's in Your Head"
- Simon Toulson-Clarke - Lead vocal, acoustic guitar and orchestrationOrchestrationOrchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra or of adapting for orchestra music composed for another medium...
- Derek Adams - BanjoBanjoIn the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage. His version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth-string. There is no proof, however, that Sweeney invented either innovation. This new...
, electric pianoElectric pianoAn electric piano is an electric musical instrument.Electric pianos produce sounds mechanically and the sounds are turned into electrical signals by pickups. Unlike a synthesizer, the electric piano is not an electronic instrument, but electro-mechanical. The earliest electric pianos were invented...
and drums - Paul Bond - Bass
- Sid Ek - Percussion
"It's True"
- Simon Toulson-Clarke - Lead vocal and acoustic guitar
- Derek Adams - Electric piano and persussion
- Steve Carr - Harmony vocal and electric guitar
- John Prestage - TrumpetTrumpetThe trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
"Sacred Wall"
- Simon Toulson-Clarke - Lead vocal
- Derek Adams - Electric guitar
- Simon Cole - Piano
- Emily Maguire - Viola
- Steve Carr - Harmonica
- Alastair Gavin - String arrangement
"Let It Rain"
- Simon Toulson-Clarke - Lead vocal, acoustic and electric guitars
- Derek Adams - Electric guitar and drums
- Paul Bond - Bass and electric guitar
- Ty Unwin - Keyboards
- John Prestage - Trumpet
- Mick Hutchins - additional electric guitar
"Green"
- Simon Toulson-Clarke - Lead vocal and acoustic guitar
- Steve Carr - Harmony vocal and bass guitar
- Simon Cole - Piano
- Jonathan Isley - Acoustic guitar and drums
- Emily Maguire - Viola and cello
- Derek Adams - Percussion
"Never Let It Be Said"
- Simon Toulson-Clarke - Lead vocal, acoustic guitar and strings
- Derek Adams - Bass, banjo and strings
- Ty Unwin - Piano and strings
- Paul Bond - Electric guitar
- Buffy Sainte-MarieBuffy Sainte-MarieBuffy Sainte-Marie, OC is a Canadian Cree singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist. Throughout her career in all of these areas, her work has focused on issues of Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Her singing and writing repertoire includes...
- Vocal sampleSampling (music)In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a different sound recording of a song or piece. Sampling was originally developed by experimental musicians working with musique concrète and electroacoustic music, who physically...
"Once I Dreamed"
- Simon Toulson-Clarke - Lead vocal and acoustic guitar
- Steve Carr - Harmony vocal and bass guitar
- Derek Adams - Acoustic guitar and drums
- Simon Cole - Piano
- Emily Maguire - Viola and cello
"Take My Hand for a While"
- Simon Toulson-Clarke - Lead vocal and acoustic guitar
- Steve Carr - Harmony vocal
- Sid Ek - Piano
- Frey Smith - Acoustic bassAcoustic bass guitarThe acoustic bass guitar is a bass instrument with a hollow wooden body similar to, though usually somewhat larger than a steel-string acoustic guitar...
- Alastair Gavin - String arrangement
Production
- Simon Toulson-ClarkeSimon Toulson-ClarkeSimon Toulson-Clarke is the lead singer and a founder member of the 1980s/1990s pop group Red Box. In the late 1970s he studied in London at the Polytechnic of Central London where he formed the band along with Julian Close, Paddy Talbot, Rob Legge and Martin Nickson.He released an album in 1997...
- ProducerRecord producerA record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music... - Matt Butler and Simon Toulson-Clarke - MixingAudio mixing (recorded music)In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...
- Simon Toulson-Clarke and Matt Butler - EngineeringAudio engineeringAn audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including...
- Phill Brown and Will Bartle - Additional engineering
- Dick Beetham - MasteringAudio masteringMastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...
- Alastair Gavin - StringString sectionThe string section is the largest body of the standard orchestra and consists of bowed string instruments of the violin family.It normally comprises five sections: the first violins, the second violins, the violas, the cellos, and the double basses...
arrangementArrangementThe American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...
and conductorConductingConducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble... - Alexander Balanesco - OrchestraOrchestraAn orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...
leader
- Recorded at Olive Road, Yellow Shark and Chapel Studios
- Mixed at Yellow Shark
- Mastered at 360 Mastering