An Other Cup

Occupation

  • Yusuf: Spanish guitar, Acoustic guitar, piano, keyboard, synthesizer, triangle, arrangements, background vocals, vocal
  • Alun Davies: Acoustic Guitar
  • Rick Nowels: Acoustic guitar, keyboard, piano, harmonium, percussion, dulcimer, backing vocals
  • John Themis: bass, Spanish guitar, electric guitar, Xiao Ruan (Chinese guitar)
  • Ian Thomas: Drums
  • Greg Kurstin: Organ, Synthesizer
  • Maartin Allcock: Acoustic Bass, Mandolin
  • Alex Dankworth: Acoustic Bass
  • Danny Thompson: Acoustic Bass
  • Peter Adams: piano, organ
  • Tim Pierce: Electric Guitar
  • George Black: bass, percussion
  • Robert Lu Edmonds: darbuka, percussion
  • Luis Jardim: percussion
  • Angus Lyon: accordion
  • Gavyn Wright: Violin
  • Skalia Kanga: Harp
  • Youssou N ' Dour: Voice
  • Maria Vidal, Andrew Roachford, Wayne Handez, Patrick Alan, Joyous Celebration Choir, Incwenga Voices: background vocals
  • Nick Ingman, Charles Judge: Arrangements

An Other Cup is a music album by Yusuf, who was formerly known as Cat Stevens successfully. It is his first pop / folk - rock album since the 1978 released album Back to Earth.

An Other Cup has been released in Germany on 10 November 2006 by Atlantic Records; the title Heaven / Where True Love Goes, Midday ( Avoid City After Dark ) and Maybe There's a World were released as an e- single.

Title of the album

In an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Yusuf Islam responded to the question of the title of the album with " A small grammatical quirk. I wanted people to understand that this record is really An Other Cup. Not just another cup (another cup ), but: another cup ( an other cup, unusual spelling in English ). [ ... ] The cup can also be found on the cover of the album Tea for the Tillerman in 1970, my most famous album, and this little space to show that something has happened since then. That we live in a different world. This CD is a new step, some consider it a very bold step. I'm building a bridge and try to walk on it. Many people are afraid to enter this bridge. "

Below it, the symbol of the coffee cup as a reference "to the hidden treasures of Islamic civilization. Coffee houses, cafes, bars, today we see at every turn, are an invention of Muslims. They existed already in the 15th century in Istanbul and even earlier in Yemen. So the cup is a symbol of what we share. "

Title list

All songs (except tracks 7 ) were written by Yusuf.

Marketing and successes

On 9 December 2006 Yusuf Islam put the album on Wetten, dass. before. An Other Cup debuted at number 2 in the German album charts and was a total of 29 weeks in the charts.

Others

Three of the songs are from the earlier career of Cat Stevens: In Heaven / where true love goes a part of the Foreigner Suite processed from the year 1973; I think I see the light comes from the album Mona Bone Jakon ( 1970) and the previously unreleased song Green fields, golden sands dates back to 1968.

Record label Polydor Records Genre Footsteps in the Light Back to Earth (Cat-Stevens-Album) New Masters Teaser and the Firecat Catch Bull at Four Foreigner (Cat Stevens album) Buddha and the Chocolate Box Numbers (Cat Stevens album) Izitso Saturnight Majikat Roadsinger
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