I (A.R. Kane album)
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"i" is the second album by A.R. Kane, released in 1989 on One Little Indian. The album engaged more overtly with pop, dance and electronic styles following the group's debut Sixty Nine. Like its predecessor, "i" was released to moderate sales figures and topped the UK independent charts.
The Allmusic review by Jason Ankeny awarded the album 4.5 stars stating "Breathtaking in its scope and positively epic in its ambitions, the album is loosely organized into four sonic suites containing four tracks each, broken up by a series of wild-card noise interludes; the music shifts and mutates constantly, growing progressively deeper and darker with each passing song. Largely overlooked upon its original release, i is still an underappreciated masterpiece, but it's inconceivable to imagine that electronica and post-rock could ever have blossomed without it."
Track listing
| all_writing = A.R. Kane, except where noted | title1 = Hello | length1 = 0:27 | title2 = A Love from Outer Space | length2 = 5:08 | title3 = Crack Up | length3 = 4:12 | title4 = Timewind | length4 = 0:15 | title5 = What's All This Then? | length5 = 4:03 | title6 = Snow Joke | length6 = 4:46 | title7 = Off into Space | length7 = 0:04 | title8 = And I Say | length8 = 2:42 | title9 = Yeti | length9 = 0:11 | title10 = Conundrum | length10 = 2:32 | title11 = Honeysuckleswallow | length11 = 3:20 | title12 = Long Body | length12 = 1:21 | title13 = In a Circle | writer13 = A.R. Kane, Billy McGee | length13 = 4:37 | title14 = Fast Ka | length14 = 0:27 | title15 = Miles Apart | length15 = 3:01 | title16 = Pop | length16 = 3:40 | title17 = Mars | length17 = 0:20 | title18 = Spook | length18 = 3:10 | title19 = Sugarwings | length19 = 3:37 | title20 = Back Home | length20 = 0:07 | title21 = Down | length21 = 5:14 | title22 = Supervixens | length22 = 5:40 | title23 = Insect Love | length23 = 2:52 | title24 = Sorry | length24 = 0:05 | title25 = Catch My Drift | length25 = 5:40 | title26 = Challenge | length26 = 0:06 }}
Personnel
- A.R. Kane – arranger, audio production, engineer, guitar, multi instruments, producer, string arrangements, vocals
- Gini Ball, Sally Herbert, Jeremy Metcalfe – violin
- Benny Di Massa – drums
- Colin Cairns – bass
- Sue Dench, Jocelyn Pook – viola
- John Dent – cut, cutting engineer
- The False Harmonies – strings
- Lincoln Fong, Gerard Johnson, Paul Kendall, Nigel Kennedy, Gail Lambourne, Mick Roasty, Sam Smith, Ken Thomas, Jeff Ward – engineer
- Girl, Lorna – vocals
- Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah – percussion
- Art Kane – arranger, engineer, instrumentation, producer, string arrangements
- Maggie Tambala – bass, vocals
- Martin McCarrick, Audrey Riley – cello
- Billy McGee – string arrangements
- Ray Shulman – bass, producer
- Chris Tombling – balloon, violin
- Halpin Grey Vermeir – cover design, design
