To Other Cup

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To Other Cup
Studio album by Yusuf (formerly Cat Stevens )

Publication
(s)

2006

Label (s) Atlantic Records and Polydor ( Universal Music )

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Pop , folk rock

Title (number)

11/12

running time

41:20 / 44:21 (with bonus title)

occupation
  • Yusuf: Spanish guitar, acoustic guitar, piano, keyboard, synthesizer, triangle, arrangements, background vocals, vocals
  • Alun Davies: acoustic guitar
  • Rick Nowels: acoustic guitar, keyboard, piano, harmonium, percussion, dulcimer, background vocals
  • John Themis: bass, Spanish guitar, electric guitar, Xiao Ruan (Chinese guitar)
  • Ian Thomas: drums
  • Greg Kurstin: organ, synthesizer
  • Martin 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
  • Maria Vidal, Andrew Roachford, Wayne Handez, Patrick Alan, Joyous Celebration Choir, Incwenga Voices: Backing vocals
  • Nick Ingman, Charles Judge: Arrangements

production

Rick Nowels and Yusuf

Studio (s)

London, Los Angeles, Istanbul, Johannesburg

chronology
Footsteps in the Light
(2006) 		To Other Cup Yusuf's Café Session
(2007)

An Other Cup is a music album by Yusuf who was previously successful as Cat Stevens . It is his first pop / folk rock album since the 1978 album Back to Earth .

An Other Cup was released in Germany on November 10, 2006 on Atlantic Records ; the tracks 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 FAZ , Yusuf Islam answered the question about the title of the album with “A little grammatical quirk. I wanted people to understand that this record is really An Other Cup. Not just another cup, but: another cup (an other cup, unusual spelling in English). […] The cup can also be found on the cover of the Tea for the Tillerman album from 1970, my most famous album, and this little space is meant to show that something has happened since then. That we live in another world. This CD is a new step, some consider it a very brave step. I'm building a bridge and trying to walk on it. Many people are afraid to step on this bridge. "

In the following he refers to the symbol of the coffee cup as a reference “to the hidden treasures of Islamic civilization. Coffee houses, the cafes that we see on every corner today, are an invention of Muslims. They existed in Istanbul as early as the 15th century and even earlier in Yemen. In this way the cup becomes a symbol of what we share with one another. "

Track list

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

  1. Midday (Avoid City After Dark) - 4:25
  2. Heaven / Where True Love Goes - 4:50
  3. Maybe There's a World - 3:07
  4. One Day at a Time - 4:54
  5. When Butterflies Leave - 0:41
  6. In the End - 4:02
  7. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (Benjamin, Marcus, Caldwell) - 3:23
  8. I Think I See the Light - 5:34
  9. Whispers from a Spiritual Garden - 2:05
  10. The Beloved - 4:52
  11. Greenfields, Golden Sands - 3:28
  12. There is Peace (UK / limited Edition Bonus Track)

Marketing and Achievements

On December 9, 2006, Yusuf Islam posted the album on Wetten, dass ..? in front. An Other Cup entered the German album charts at number 2 and was in the charts for a total of 29 weeks.

Others

Three of the songs are from Cat Stevens' earlier creative period: Heaven / Where True Love Goes uses part of the Foreigner suite from 1973; I Think I See the light comes from the album Mona Bone Jakon (1970) and the previously unreleased song Greenfields, Golden Sands is from 1968.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b To be you have to give up what you are . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , November 12, 2006
  2. ↑ musicline.de ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musicline.de
  3. ↑ The story behind the music ( Memento from March 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive )