X-Legged Sally - The Smith Quartet: Bereft of a Blissful Union

Nuages Gris (Liszt-Vermeersch) (4:15)
Brungle (Vermeersch) (23:53)
3 of 2 portretten van een drenkeling - deel 2 (Vermeersch) (5:28)
Out of the pit (words: D. Thomas, music: Vermeersch) (2:57)
Birdcage (van Dam) (10:15)
Der Doppelgänger (Heine - Schubert - Vermeersch) (3:41)
Black is the color of my true love's hair (van Dam) (7:08)

X-Legged Sally :

Paul Belgrado - electric bass
Bart Maris - trumpet
Michel Mast - tenor & baritone saxophone
Peter Vandenberghe - keyboards & accordeon
Danny Van Hoeck - drums
Peter Vermeersch - clarinet & tenor saxophone
Pierre Vervloesem - electric & acoustic guitar, banjo

The Smith Quartet :

Deirdre Cooper - cello
Ian Humphries - violin
Charles Mutter - violin
Nic Pendlebury - viola

Géry Cambier - double-bass & percussions on all tracks
Thomas Lehnhart - voice on 4
Saïd Gharbi & Deirdre Cooper - voices on 6

Recorded and mixed at studio Caraibes
Engineered by Gilles Martin, Recording assistant : Mathieu Lesort
Track 5 & 7 recorded by Lieven Callens at Schouburg Rotterdam
Overdubs on Birdcage at studio Caraibes
Mastered by Uwe Teichert at Electric City, Brussels
Edited by Vincent De Bast & Christine Verschooren
Produced by Vermeersch/Vervloesem

Thanks to :
Christophe Columbus, Koko, Franz S., Franz L., Bart Van Langendonck, Jan Van de Velde, Laurent 'Chef' Taquin, Claude Martin, Lorraine Lyons, Katootje, 'Royal Flemish Theatre'-Brussels, Gastprogrammering 'Het Muziektheater'-Amsterdam, 'Théâtre de la Ville'-Paris.

Megadisc MDC 7843