Déjà Fou

Déjà Fou
Studio album by Strawbs
Released	August 30, 2004 (2004-08-30)
Recorded	May 2004 (2004-05)
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	57:15
Label	Witchwood
Producer	Dave Cousins
Strawbs chronology
Blue Angel (2003) Déjà Fou (2004) Full Bloom (2005)

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Déjà Fou is a studio album by English band Strawbs. The title is a play on the phrase déjà vu, French for "already seen", as the band line-up had been seen 30 years before on the Hero and Heroine album. The phrase déjà fou literally means "already mad".

Track listing

1. "Riviera dei Fiori" (Dave Cousins, Dave Lambert) – 1:43
2. "Under a Cloudless Sky" (Cousins) – 5:16
3. "Face Down in the Well" (Cousins) – 5:55
4. "Further Down the Road" (Cousins) – 3:25
5. "On a Night Like This" (Cousins) – 2:27
6. "If" (Cousins) – 5:07
7. "Cold Steel" (Lambert)) – 5:07
8. "Sunday Morning" (Cousins, Lambert) – 3:24
9. "This Barren Land" (Cousins, Lambert) – 4:47
10. "When the Lights Came On" (Lambert) – 5:43
11. "Russian Front" (Cousins, Chas Cronk, John Hawken, Lambert) – 5:40
12. "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow" (Cousins) – 4:14
13. "NRG" (Cousins) – 4:09

Personnel

• Dave Cousins – lead vocals, backing vocals, guitar, banjo, mandolin, chromaharp
• Dave Lambert – lead vocals, backing vocals, guitar
• Chas Cronk – backing vocals, bass guitar, guitar
• John Hawken – keyboards
• Rod Coombes – drums, percussion

Additional personnel

• Chris While – vocals
• Julie Matthews – vocals
• Adam Wakeman - piano
• Robert Kirby – French horn, string arrangements
• Michael Humphrey – violin
• Paul Robson – violin
• Jonathan Welch – viola
• Rebecca Gilliver – cello
• Nick Worters – double bass

Recording

Recorded at KD's Studio, Chiswick, London

• Dave Cousins – producer
• Kenny Denton, Chas Cronk – engineers
• Roger Wake – mastering

Release history

References

• Déjà Fou on Strawbsweb
• Sleeve notes to DC WMCD 2020 Déjà Fou

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