Trance and Dance 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...

' 1980 second album, and like the previous Metro Music

Metro Music

Metro Music was Martha and the Muffins' first album, released in 1979. It contained the international hit single "Echo Beach", which reached #3 in Canada, #1 in Portugal, #5 in Australia and #10 in the UK charts in March 1980. It also reached #37 in the U.S. on the Club Play Singles chart. ...

was produced by Mike Howlett

Mike Howlett

Mike Howlett is a Fijian-born musician, Grammy Award winning producer and teacher based in the United Kingdom and Australia....

. The album included "Motorbikin’", the band's cover of Chris Spedding

Chris Spedding

Chris Spedding is an English rock and roll and jazz guitarist, best known for his session work. Allmusic states - "Spedding is one of the UK's most versatile session guitarists, and has had a long career on two continents that saw him tackle nearly every style of rock and roll, as well as...

's 1976 UK

United Kingdom

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 hit.

Initial editions were released with a bonus 4 track EP of live recordings.

Part of Trance And Dance was later released (along with Metro Music in its entirety and two tracks from the later This is the Ice Age

This Is the Ice Age

This is the Ice Age was Martha and the Muffins' third album, released on LP and cassette in 1981. The track "Women Around the World at Work" was released as a single in the UK and Canada....

album) on the 1987 semi-compilation Far Away in Time

Far Away in Time

Far Away in Time was a 1987 CD compilation of tracks by Martha and the Muffins. The compilation consisted of Metro Music in its entirety , plus four tracks from Trance and Dance , two tracks from This is the Ice Age , and the non-album single "Insect Love" .The album was compiled without any...

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Track listing

Personnel

• Carl Finkle - Bass
• Mark Gane - Guitars, Vocals, Synthetics
• Tim Gane - Drums, percussion
• Martha Johnson - Vocals, Keyboards
• Martha Ladly
  Martha Ladly
  Martha Ladly, AOCA RGD MCSD is a Canadian academic, designer and musician. She is currently Associate Professor of interaction design, at OCAD University. Ladly has also had a long career as a musician and achieved international fame as part of Canadian New Wave band Martha & the Muffins...
  
   - Vocals, Keyboards, Trombone

• Andy Haas - Saxophone
• David Millar - Live sound

Production credits

• Produced by Mike Howlett
• Engineered by Richard Manwaring
• Tape op. - Howard Gray

• Cover concept - Martha and the Muffins
• Cover painting - Martha Ladly
• Art Direction - Peter Saville