Royal Academy of Reality

Original Release Date:  May 20, 2003

Track Listing

• 1. Introducing Time
• 2. Light Arriving Soon
• 3. Out of Nothing
• 4. The Earth Makes Us Feel Things
• 5. Yesterday's Rain
• 6. The Discovery of Dawn
• 7. Cosmogonical Heliopolis
• 8. Deep South
• 9. Everybody Knows Tomorrow
• 10. The Radio in Memphis
• 11. The Do What and the Who What
• 12. Yin Yang
• 13. Nocturnal Transmission
• 14. Electron Gardens
• 15. For No Reason
• 16. Sky Land
• 17. What Is Beyond
• 18. Pharaoh's Rocket
• 19. The Wheel of the Sun
• 20. Alpha Centauri's Rise

Credits

• Anne Richmond Boston: Vocals (Background)
• Gary Brown: Guitar (Bass)
• Samarai Celestial: Drums
• Nick DiDia: Engineer
• Brian Engel: Glass Harp
• Tom Gray: Dulcimer, Lap Steel Guitar
• Rodney Mills: Producer
• Brendan O'Brien: Bass, Guitar (Bass)
• Greg Quesnel: Engineer
• Neal Starkey: Double Bass, Bass (Upright)
• Moe Tucker: Drums, Tambourine
• Denny Walley: Slide Guitar
• Billy Burton: Percussion, Drums, Electronic Drums, Simmons Drums
• Penny Ray: Vocals (Background)
• Caram Costanzo: Drums, Assistant Engineer
• Phil Hadaway: Organ, Bass, Guitar, Percussion, Piano, Strings, Accordion, Glockenspiel, Guitar (Bass), Keyboards, Programming, Sitar, Sound Effects, Tambourine, Guitar (12 String), Moog Synthesizer, Bells, Producer, Engineer, Tympani [Timpani], Sampling, Mellotron, Sitar (Electric), Sequencing, Shaker, Sleigh Bells, Vocal Arrangement, String Arrangements, Mixing, Electric Harpsichord, Percussion Programming, Mini Moog, CS-80, Arp Odyssey, Hammond Synth, Piano Effects, Roland S555, Sequencers, Sound Manipulation, Stereo Enhancement, Hammond B3
• Esta Hill: Vocals (Background)
• Ryan Williams: Assistant Engineer, Mixing
• Marty Kearns: Synthesizer, Piano, Harmonium, Keyboards, Piano (Electric), Clavinet, Sampling, Mellotron, Arp, Korg Synthesizer, Loops, Fender Rhodes, Oberheim, Wurlitzer, Electric Harpsichord, Clavioline, Toy Piano, Mini Moog, Moog Bass, Juno, Arp 2600, Hammond Synth, Oberheim Expander, Yamaha Keyboards, Hammond B3
• Ash Arnett: Artwork
• Marcus David: Dulcimer (Hammer)
• Patrick Belden: Engineer
• Thom Jenkins: Shells
• Eric Hubner: Vocals (Background)
• Gary Brown: Bass
• Neel Murgai: Sitar
• Brad Lewis: Harmonica, Jew's-Harp
• Skip Graham: Moog Synthesizer
• Mike Clark: Cymbals
• Denny Braun: Sax (Tenor)
• Henry Bruns: Pedal Steel
• Neill Calabro: Vibraphone
• Elizabeth Calder: Spoken Word, Telephone Voice
• Thad Wilson: Trumpet, Trumpet (Muted)
• John H. Dickson: Narrator, Spoken Word
• DJ Gnosis: Turntables
• Tom Gray: Lap Steel Guitar, Appalachian Dulcimer
• Becky Grandey: Vocals (Background)
• Dave Strohauer: Didjeridu
• James Schneider: Tamboura
• Doctor Hong Li: Translation
• Mimi Li: Violin
• Marty Minskee: Violin
• Jonathan Vance: Assembly
• Franz Russell: Spoken Word, Voiceover
• Bruce Bennett: Engineer
• David Marcus: Dulcimer
• Pete Jarkunas: Percussion, Bongos, Conga, Triangle, Kalimba, Shaker, Cowbell
• Bing Li: Violin
• Brien Engel: Glass
• Brad Lewis: Harmonica, Jew's-Harp
• Henry Frons: Bagpipes
• Bill Burton: Percussion, Bongos, Cymbals, Drums, Electronic Drums
• Eric Winbush: Guitar (Bass), Percussion Programming
• Bob Elsey: Guitar, Drums, E-Bow, Talk Box
• Jeff Calder: Guitar, Autoharp, Drums (Bass), Gong, Guitar (Bass), Guitar (Steel), Keyboards, Recorder, Sitar, Sound Effects, Vocals, Vocals (Background), Xylophone, Koto, Bells, Various, Producer, Fretless Bass, Arp, Fender Rhodes, Sho, Flexatones, Chang
• Zollie Maynard: Vocals (Background)
• Erich Hubner: Vocals (Background)