Artist: ALAN PARSONS
Album: THE TIME MACHINE REISSUE (CD)

Release date: 1999/ 2021
EAN/UPS: 8718627233191
Media type: CD

Sounding like a combination of the Alan Parsons Project of the 70s with a dash of Pink Floyd, “The Time Machine” is an aural experience sure to please fans of Parsons, New Age and Electronica. The album opens with the instrumental “The Time Machine (Part 1)”, written by Cockney Rebel drummer/composer Stuart Elliott (later Al Stewart and Kate Bush a.o.), which resembles the way the Project’s album used to open. There’s the mellow song “Out Of The Blue,” with lead vocals by Tony Hadley of Spandau Ballet. “Ignorance Is Bliss” is one of the most beautiful songs with vocals from former Zombies lead-singer Colin Blunstone. Alan Parsons again uses the concept album formula successful with “Time Machine”.

TRACKLIST CD:

    "The Time Machine (Part 1)" (Stuart Elliott) Instrumental – 4:54
    "Temporalia" (Parsons) Instrumental with narration by Professor Frank Close – 1:00
    "Out of the Blue" (Bairnson) Lead Vocal Tony Hadley – 4:54
    "Call Up" (Bairnson) Lead Vocal Neil Lockwood – 5:13
    "Ignorance Is Bliss" (Bairnson) Lead Vocal Colin Blunstone  – 6:45
    "Rubber Universe" (Bairnson) Instrumental – 3:52
    "The Call of the Wild" (Bairnson) Lead Vocal Máire Brennan – 5:22
    "No Future in the Past" (Elliott) Lead Vocal Neil Lockwood – 4:46
    "Press Rewind" (Elliott) Lead Vocal Graham Dye – 4:20
    "The Very Last Time" (Bairnson) Lead Vocal Beverley Craven – 3:42
    "Far Ago And Long Away" (Bairnson) Instrumental – 5:14
    "The Time Machine (Part 2)" (Elliott) Instrumental – 1:47