IRS
1989
Rapture in the Chambers
About This Album
One of the less-expected releases of 1989 had to be the appearance of a new album by Spirit in the U.S. by a record company distributed by a major label. The group's last appearance in American record stores had been five-years earlier, with the poor-selling reunion LP Spirit of '84 (aka The Thirteenth Dream), largely consisting of re-recordings. Discounting a live album and an archival release that appeared on independent labels, the last time there had been an all-new Spirit album was 1977's Future Games: A Magical-Kahauna Dream. That LP was a solo recording by Spirit guitarist Randy California in all but name, and since then California had devoted much of his time to his solo career, releasing three solo albums internationally, but not in the U.S. Yet California's participation in the package tour Night of the Guitar, sponsored by I.R.S. Records, the label run by Miles Copeland and generally focused on modern rock, led to the company's interest in a new Spirit album. For it, California rounded up ever-present drummer Ed Cassidy and keyboard player John Locke, and got bassist Mark Andes (lately a member of Heart) to play on a couple of tracks and co-write one. That accounted for four of the original five members of Spirit; singer/percussionist Jay Ferguson did not participate this time.
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