Music by Zippo Zimmermann except "Realize" & "Invisible Strings" (by Nina Ruchatz) and "La Salvación" (by Zippo Zimmermann & Nina Ruchatz)
Lyrics by Marietta Schröder ("Acceptance", "No Fifty Ways"), Nina Ruchatz ("Realize", "Invisible Strings"), Erika Margewitsch ("Finally", "Give it Up", "Thunderstorm", "For a Little While", "Sag lieber Lebewohl"), Karsten Ries ("The Tube"), Diana Carmen Bernardi ("La Salvación"), Katrin Reis ("Last Night") & Alain Neumann ("Where is the Love?")
featuring:
Nina Ruchatz (The artist formerly known as Nina Widjaja) //
vocals, melodica, glockenspiel, piano Sigrid Münchgesang // cello Kathrin Berger // alto, tenor & baritone sax, trumpet, flute Alain Neumann // percussion Frank J. Meyer // drums & percussion Thom Berger // guitar Holger Ruchatz // bass, backing vocals, additional guitar Zippo Zimmermann //
piano & organ, guitar, clarinet, backing vocals on "Thunderstorm"
special guests:
Jennie Kloos // backing vocals on "No Fifty Ways" & "Give It Up"
Aline Widjaja // violin on "The Tube" & "Thunderstorm", backing vocals on "For a Little While"
Anselm Vogler // violin on "Realize"
Johanna Vogler // viola on "Realize"
Felix Hubert // contrabass on "For a Little While" & "Sag lieber Lebewohl" Katrin Reis // handclaps on "Give It Up"
Michael Schiefner // bass on "La Salvación"
very special guests:
Urban Weber // backing vocals on "The Tube"
Dausi Jacoby // guitar on "The Tube Reprise", bass on "Last Night"
special thanks to:
Thomas Braun, Marcel Sude, Danielle Houset-Kurtenacker, Rudolf Kurtenacker, internett.de
thanks to our supporters:
Annette Speicher/ Autotechnik Steffes/ Barbara Feld/ Bernd Hackstein/ Erika Labinsky/ Familie Kaiser/ Ilona, Heiner & Christian Meyer/ Karin Hohlfeld/ Katia Fuchs/ Katrin Reis/ Lara Schneider/ Michael Grundhever/ Monique Schmidt/ Thomas Flach/ Tom Treitz – you made this possible!
Recorded between January 2010 & March 2011 in Behren lès Forbach, Saarbrücken & Köln. Arranged, recorded & produced by Savoy Truffle.
Mixed by Savoy Truffle & Marcel Sude, mastered by Marcel Sude.
Wir grüßen Nikolaus Kiefer. ¡Saludos a Mariano & Miguel!
1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11 written by Zippo Zimmermann (music) & Erika
Margewitsch (lyrics),
3 by Urban Weber,
6 & 12 by Thomas Josef Berger,
9 by Alain Neumann (music) & Karsten Ries (lyrics),
10 by Zippo Zimmermann (music) & Isabel Maria González Gómez (lyrics),
13 by Alain Neumann
Arranged & produced by Savoy Truffle
Recorded & mixed by Marcel Sude at Twilight Music 2003
Mastered by Michael Schwabe
Jennifer Kloos (lead & backing vocals)
Nina Widjaja (backing vocals, lead vocals on 10 & 12)
Thom Berger (electric guitar, lead vocals on 6)
Frank J. Meyer (drums)
Jens Gebhardt (bass guitar, violin on 7 & 12, backing Vocals on 8, acoustic guitar on 2)
Alain Neumann (percussion, electric piano on 9 & 13, rap on 3)
Judith Schimanowski (cello, backing vocals on 8)
Zippo Zimmermann (electric & “acoustic” piano, organ, synth, acoustic guitar on 5 & 9)
Kathrin Berger (saxophone, triangle on 11)
Very special guest appearance by Urban Weber (backing vocals on 3) Zippo & Alain play Rhodes makers of fine keyboard instruments