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MTV Unplugged: Summer Solstice
2017 live album by A-ha From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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MTV Unplugged: Summer Solstice is a live album by the Norwegian band a-ha, released on 6 October 2017 as part of the MTV Unplugged series. It was recorded live at the Harbour Hall at Ocean Sound Recordings in Giske Municipality, Norway, on 22 and 23 June 2017.[2]
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Commercial performance
The album debuted at number six on the UK Albums Chart with 6,982 units sold in its first week, becoming A-ha's seventh top-10 album in the United Kingdom.[3]
Track listing
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All tracks are produced by Lars Horntveth, except "Take On Me" produced by A-ha and Martin Terefe.
Notes
- "Sox of the Fox" was originally recorded as "The Vacant" on the 1980 album Fakkeltog[4] by the band Bridges (previous band of Paul Waaktaar-Savoy and Magne Furuholmen and for whom the former was its lead singer at the time).
- "Killing Moon" is originally from Echo & the Bunnymen's album Ocean Rain (1984).
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Personnel
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Credits adapted from the liner notes of MTV Unplugged: Summer Solstice.[5]
a-ha
- Morten Harket – vocals
- Magne Furuholmen – upright piano, harpsichord, celesta, acoustic guitar, flute, backing vocals
- Paul Waaktaar-Savoy – acoustic guitar, backing vocals
Additional musicians
- Alison Moyet – vocals on "Summer Moved On"
- Ian McCulloch – vocals on "Scoundrel Days" and "The Killing Moon"
- Lissie – vocals on "I've Been Losing You"
- Ingrid Helene Håvik – vocals on "The Sun Always Shines on TV"
- Lars Horntveth – acoustic guitars, resonator, lap steel guitar, vibraphone, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone
- Morten Qvenild – upright piano, harpsichord, harmonium, dulcitone, Fischers mandolinette, autoharp, kokles
- Even Enersen Ormestad – bass
- Karl Oluf Wenneberg – drums, percussion, bells, bass xylophone
- Madeleine Ossum – violin, backing vocals
- Emilie Heldal Lidsheim – viola, backing vocals
- Tove Margrethe Erikstad – cello, backing vocals
- Lars Horntveth – arrangement on all tracks except "Take On Me"
- Martin Terefe – arrangement on "Take On Me"
- Anders Tjore – co-arrangement on "I've Been Losing You", "The Sun Always Shines on TV", "This Alone Is Love", "Summer Moved On" and "Manhattan Skyline"
Technical
- Lars Horntveth – production on all tracks except "Take On Me"
- A-ha – production on "Take On Me"
- Martin Terefe – production on "Take On Me"
- John O'Mahony – recording, mixing
- Henning Svoren – recording
- Marcus Forsgren – recording (demo sessions)
- Greg Calbi – mastering
Artwork
- Max Dax – liner notes
- Justin Loomis – photography
- Matthias Löwenstein – artwork, cover
- Season Zero – artwork, cover
Charts
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References
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