Featuring

Featuring artwork.

Featuring is an album by LorD and Master. It was produced over a two-year period from early 2018 to early 2020. Featuring is a unique album as it is not an album of original songs, but original recordings of covers with other artists. Released 24 April 2020 on Pink Dolphin Records, this is the first album not to be self-released by LorD and Master under the Taspir III Records label.

Concept

The album was conceived in 2018 when Dan began producing covers of his favourite songs by non-Pet Shop Boys artists. Thinking of a return to the original LorD and Master formula (which was never adhered to from day one) of asking other people to supply lead vocals for his productions, Dan decided that he would ask various people from both the synth scene and his personal life to do the vocals for him on the tracks he had chosen for the album. The selections of artists to collaborate with were easy enough and every artist approached was kind enough to say yes, though unfortunately, Minerva Saturno was too ill to make the recording sessions for "Viva forever".

Design-wise, the album is furnished with illustrations of each featured artist by Peter Nugent based on images from Facebook. Dan then arranged the individually-drawn figures into a "group photo" pose for the album art, as though they were all there on a big photo-shoot.

Tracklisting

1. "One night in Bangkok" (featuring Andrik Arkane, Eric C. Powell and Andrea Powell) - 4.08
2. "Chasing cars" (featuring Tommy Bailey) - 4.53
3. "Fade to grey" (featuring milan) - 3.30
4. "Don't you want me" (featuring Sir Kit) - 3.58
5. "This is the life" (featuring AethyrCat) - 3.18
6. "Don't leave" (featuring Stephen Newton) - 3.32
7. "In private" (featuring dEk101) - 5.04
8. "Marble house" (featuring The Rude Awakening) - 3.53
9. "Sleeping satellite" (featuring This Human Condition) - 4.05
10. "To the moon and back" (featuring Eloquent) - 4.23
11. "Chandelier" (featuring JellyCube) - 4.08
12. "Viva forever" (featuring Jupiter Saturno and JellyCube) - 4.27
13. "The power of good-bye" (featuring Caroline McLavy) - 4.12
14. "February song" (featuring Neil Francis) - 5.05

Total running time: 58 minutes, 30 seconds.

Personnel

• All tracks produced and performed by Daniel Bailey-Graham.
• Vocals on track 1 by Andrik Arkane, Eric C. Powell and Andrea Powell. Written by Benny Anderson, Björn Ulvaeus and Tim Rice.
• Vocals on track 2 by Tommy Bailey. Additional vocals by Daniel Bailey-Graham. Written by Gary Lightbody, Jonny Quinn, Nathan Connolly, Tom Simpson and Paul Wilson.
• Vocals on track 3 by James Tapping. Additional vocals by Daniel Bailey-Graham. Written by Billy Currie, Chris Payne and Midge Ure.
• Vocals on track 4 by Daniel Bailey-Graham. Rap by Johnathon Barton. Written by Jo Callis, Philip Oakey and Philip Adrian Wright. Rap written by Jonathon Barton.
• Vocals on track 5 by Peter Nugent. Written by Amy Macdonald.
• Vocals on track 6 by Stephen Newton. Written by Rollo Armstrong, Sister Bliss and Jamie Catto.
• Vocals on track 7 by Derrick Ryder. Additional vocals by Daniel Bailey-Graham. Written by Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant.
• Vocals on track 8 by Bridget Gray and Johnny normal. Additional production by Johnny Normal and Bridget Gray. Written by Karin Dreijer-Andersson.
• Vocals on track 9 by Jamie Jamal. Additional vocals by Daniel Bailey-Graham. Written by Tasmin Archer, John Beck and John Hughes.
• Vocals on track 10 by Steven Cochrane. Additional vocals by Daniel Bailey-Graham. Written by Darren Hayes and Daniel Jones.
• Vocals on track 11 by JellyCube. Written by Sia Furler and Jesse Shatkin.
• Vocals on track 12 by JellyCube and Jupiter Saturno. Written by Spice Girls, Matt Rowe and Richard Stannard.
• Vocals on track 13 by Caroline McLavy and Daniel Bailey-Graham. Written by Madonna, William Orbit and Patrick Leonard.
• Vocals on track 14 by Neil Francis. Vocals recorded and engineered by Day Clifford. Written by Josh Groban, Marius de Vries and John Ondrasik.
• Art direction by Peter Nugent and Daniel Bailey-Graham.
• Artwork by Peter Nugent.
• Design by Daniel Bailey-Graham.

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