02/08/2025
A VALID PATH
Alan Parsons Studio Album, released in 2004
✨🧬An unexpected journey into electronic and modern territory, without losing the essence of the great sound architect behind The Alan Parsons Project. "A Valid Path" offers an elegant update to Parsons' style, featuring top collaborations with David Gilmour, The Crystal Method, and Shpongle.
Tracks Listing
1. Return To Tunguska (8:48)
2. More Lost Without You (3:20)
3. Mammagamma 04 (5:05)
4. We Play The Game (5:35)
5. Tijuania (5:10)
6. L'arc En Ciel (5:22)
7. A Recurring Dream Within A Dream (4:06)
8. You Can Run (3:52)
9. Chomolungma (7:07)
Musicians
- Alan Parsons / keyboards (3,4,6-9), guitar & bass (4), lead vocals (4,7), slide guitar & vocoder (7), processed backing vocals (1), backing vocals (2), software programming (8), producer
With:
- David Gilmour / guitar (1)
- Alastair Greene / lead guitar (4,6)
- David Pack / guitar & keyboards & lead vocals (8)
- Shpongle (Simon Posford and Raja Ram) / software programming & processed backing vocals (1)
- Michele Adamson / processed lead vocals (1)
- Lisa Parsons / processed backing vocals (1)
- P.J. Olsson / software programming (2,4,5,8,9), lead & backing vocals (2)
- Jeremy Parsons / software programming (3,7-9)
- The Crystal Method (Ken Jordan, Scott Kirkland) / programming & keyboards (4)
- Nortec Collective (Bostich, Fussible, Hiperboreal, Panoptica) / programming (5)
- Timothy "Uberzone" Wiles / software programming (6)
- Orson Welles / narration (7)
- "Deep E" / ? (8)
- John Cleese / narration (9)
