Stationary Traveller

by Camel

Stationary Traveller cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: April 1984
  • Label: Decca
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 50:29
  • Community rating: 3.29/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Mel Collins, David Paton, Ton Scherpenzeel, Paul Burgess, Chris Rainbow

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Camel's deeply melancholic concept album explores the political and emotional turmoil of a divided Berlin. The record shifts away from sprawling progressive rock epics toward highly atmospheric, synthesized pop-rock structures, prioritizing anxious, urban narratives and melodic, emotive guitar solos.

Genres

Descriptors: conceptual, history, political

Tracklist

  1. Pressure Points (2:08)
  2. Refugee (3:46)
  3. Vopo's (5:30)
  4. Cloak & Dagger Man (3:52)
  5. Stationary Traveller (5:31)
  6. West Berlin (5:07)
  7. Fingertips (4:27)
  8. Missing (4:18)
  9. After Words (1:59)
  10. Long Goodbyes (5:15)
  11. In The Arms Of The Waltzing Frauleins (2:16)
  12. Pressure Points - 12" version (6:14)

Credits

  • Camel - primary artist
  • The Artifex Studio - artwork
  • Dave Hutchins - engineer
  • Niko Bolas - engineer [assistant], additional engineer
  • Richard Bosworth - engineer [assistant], additional engineer
  • Susan Hoover - lyrics by, coordinator [album co-ordination]
  • DIY Management - management
  • Doug Sax - mastered by, mastering
  • Greg Ladanyi - mixed by
  • Andrew Latimer - producer [produced by], written-by, instruments [all other], mixed by, piano, bass, guitar, vocals, drum machine [drumulator], guitar, piano, vocals, synthesizer [ppg, juno 60, yamaha cs-80], guitar, drum machine [drumulator], piano, vocals, electric guitar, twelve-string guitar [12 string], electric guitar, classical guitar, bass, panpipes, guitar, bass, vocals, drum machine [drumulator], vocals, instruments [all], guitar, flute, producer
  • Haydn Bendall - mixed by, synthesizer [fairlight], synthesizer [ppg voices]
  • Ton Scherpenzeel - accordion, synthesizer [yamaha cs-80, prophet], synthesizer [prophet, juno 60], grand piano, synthesizer [prophet, ppg, juno 60], grand piano, synthesizer [ppg, prophet], grand piano, electric organ [korg organ], synthesizer [ppg], written-by, grand piano, synthesizer [prophet]
  • Paul Burgess - drums
  • David Paton - bass, fretless bass
  • Chris Rainbow - vocals
  • Mel Collins - saxophone

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