PERRY FARRELL'S SATELLITE PARTY

"The Solutionists"
Perry Farrell - Lyrics & Music
Thievery Corporation - Music
Vocals - Perry Farrell
Programming - Thievery Corporation
Addiitional Programming - Perry Farrell
Guitars - Tim Pierce
Additional Guitars - Nuno Bettencourt
Bass Guitar - Nuno Bettencourt
Drums - Kevin Figueiredo
Background Vocals - Perry Farrell, Suze DeMarchi & Nuno Bettencourt
String Arrangement - Harry Gregson-Williams
Strings - The Satellite Strings Orchestra
Conducted by Harry Gregson-Williams

"Awesome"
Perry Farrell - Lyrics & Music
Chris Healings & Mike Truman - Music
Vocals - Perry Farrell
Programming: Hybrid... Featuring Pete DiStefano on Acoustic Guitar
Guitars - Nuno Bettencourt
Drums - Kevin Figueiredo
Background Vocals - Etty Lau Farrell & Perry Farrell
String Arrangement - Harry Gregson-Williams
Additional String Arrangements - Nuno Bettencourt
Strings - The Satellite Strings Orchestra
Conducted by Harry Gregson-Williams

"Mr. Sunshine"
Perry Farrell - Lyrics & Music
Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb & Robin Gibb - Music
Vocals - Perry Farrell
Programming - Perry Farrell
Guitars - Nuno Bettencourt
Bass Guitar - Nuno Bettencourt
Drums - Kevin Figueiredo
Background Vocals - Etty Lau Farrell & Perry Farrell
Piano - Kenneth Crouch
Percussion - Joey Heredia
String Arrangement - Harry Gregson-Williams
Strings - The Satellite Strings Orchestra
Conducted by Harry Gregson-Williams
Contains Elements From "Lonely Days" Written by Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb & Robin Gibb

"Woman In The Window"
Written by Jim Morrison & The Doors
Music Produced & Composed by Perry Farrell
Vocals - Jim Morrison
Programming - Perry Farrell
Guitars - Nuno Bettencourt
Bass Guitar - Nuno Bettencourt
Drums - Kevin Figueiredo
Background Vocals - Perry Farrell, Etty Lau Farrell & Nuno Bettencourt
Organ & Piano - Nuno Bettencourt
String Arrangement - Harry Gregson-Williams
Strings - The Satellite Strings Orchestra
Conducted by Harry Gregson-Williams

Producer - Perry Farrell
Co-Producer - Nuno Bettencourt
Executive Producer - Steve Lillywhite

Perry & Etty would like to thank:
Each other & our "Awesome" children: Hezron Wolfgang & Izaadore Bravo; Mary S. Tsui, Trudy Green, Danielle Friedman, Nicholas Brown, Flea, Alison Tuma, Josh Richman, Tom Morello, Alex Graham, Kara Silverman, Yobel, Farrel, Paulette, Stacey, Lara, Jeremy, Cody...

In Loving Memory of our friend Lukani Hatuff

Special Thanks:
Flea, John Frusciante, Chris Healings, Mike Truman, Harry Gregson-Williams, Peter Hook, Stacey "Fergie" Ferguson, Rob Garza, Eric Hilton, Steve Lillywhite, Marc Van Gool, Richard "Jake" Davies, Peter DiStefano, Matt E. Silver, Jamie Young, Howard Kaufman, Barbara Jones, Jeff Jampol, The Doors, Brendan Hawkins, Mike Kobayashi, Virginia Insigne, Bloc Agency, Jason Barbanell, Max Vadukul, Mick Rock, Greg Kadel, Jeff Greenberg, Nimrod Lev, Cecila Noel, Charissa Nielsen, Kiki Ebsen, Gisa Vatcky, Maria Entraigues, Charlie Bisharat, Michelle RIchard, Cameron Stone, Sam Formicola, Kiki Ebsen, Campbell Laird, Christopher DelCastillo for MAC Cosmetics

Nuno would like to thank:
Suze, Lorenzo & Bebe for all your love & patience. Tom Morello "SP Godfather", Carl Schlacher & Rudy Schlacher @ Washburn Guitars, Doug Reynolds @ Randall Amplifiers, Bari Wilson @ Dean Markley, David Ferreria, Charley Londono & Gary Garland

Additional Thanks:
God, Yaya, Matt Ross, the Restivo family, the Figueiredo family, Gaelle, John Good & the DW family, Scott Liken, Kevin Estrada, Ross Garfield, Vater Percussion, Tim @ Rockstar Studios

Columbia Records:
Tim Bowen, Rob Stringer, Steve Barnett, Tom Donnarumma, Barbara Jones, Doneen Lombardi, Lars Murray, JJ Grossman + his team, Gary Fisher, Christopher Austopchuk/Dave Bett + their art team, Nichol Carlson, Tracy Nurse, Lou Marron, Fran DeFeo, Tom Muzquiz, Carleen Donovan, Danny Lockwood, Meaghan Lyons, Amber Maduell, Paula Erickson + her team, Barry Levine + his team, Jade Wiederholt, Samantha Saturn, Jeroen Van Der Meer

Perry Farrell Interview extract :

What is the process like when you have to adapt a 30-piece orchestra to a rock song?

Obviously, I had a lot of help. My main conspirator is Harry Gregson-Williams. He is a film composer who has done The Chronicles Of Narnia, Kingdom Of Heaven, Shrek, Domino, and all of the Tony Scott movies. So he’s used to leading 60-piece orchestras. I was working out of his studio. Harry is a good friend and he has a studio – a building, really – in Venice Beach. So while working out of his building, obviously he came down and listened to the music. I wouldn’t let him leave until he promised he’d work with me! Harry loves to work on a grand scale, and these film budgets are astronomical. They can run $150 million. So the budget for making music is just so blown out of proportion, it’s not funny. He was composing and making his arrangements on piano. He starts with piano and synthesizer, and then we looked to replace that, his compositions, with the real orchestra. So he was giving me a budget, he put it on paper, and he sent it to me. He said, “Well, how many pieces do you want?” I looked at the difference. You can have a 60-piece orchestra. You can have a 30-piece. So I didn’t want to have any less than a 15 piece. I looked at it and the jump was just…I mean, I couldn’t afford it all! You just don’t get those kinds of budgets today in the music business. So I said, “Well, Harry, what about a 13 piece?” He went, “Okay, let’s do 15 and I’ll get it for the same price.” So anyway, we were about to do this thing now and we got a very lucky break. There was a 30-piece orchestra that came to town and their gig was canceled. A lot of them are friends of Harry’s, and Harry caught wind of this great group of stringed instrumentalists. He told me that it was the greatest assembly of string instrumentalists today. They were all waiting around and he got them together. We got in the studio and set up in their sound studio and recorded all of those songs in one afternoon. We got 5 songs. It’s no simple task to conduct 30 people at a time with songs they’ve never heard before and make it come off right, but Harry did!

Which tracks did you use the orchestra on?

You’ve got the main track (“Ultra Payloaded Satellite Party”). If you really want to hear where it really comes out, it’s in “Awesome.” So it’s “Awesome,” in “The Solutionists,” “Mr. Sunshine,” the Jim Morrison song.

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