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Icon (Wetton and Downes album)

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Released
  
2 August 2005

Icon (2005)
  
Rubicon (2006)

Release date
  
2 August 2005

Genre
  
Progressive rock

Length
  
57:05

Artists
  
John Wetton, Geoff Downes

Label
  
Frontiers Records

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Recorded
  
Aubitt Studios, Southampton, UK

Producer
  
John Wetton & Geoffrey Downes

Similar
  
John Wetton albums, Progressive rock albums

Icon is a studio album recorded and released by Asia band members John Wetton and Geoffrey Downes in 2005. It is the first in the Icon franchise (though they previously recorded in 2002 the album Wetton Downes, a precursor to the Icon series).

Contents

See also Icon II: Rubicon (2006). The third Icon album is Icon 3 (2009).

Track listing

  1. "Overture/Paradox"
  2. "Let Me Go"
  3. "God Walks with Us" – 4:40
  4. "I Stand Alone" – 6:08
  5. "Meet Me at Midnight" – 2:34
  6. "Hey Josephine" – 4:52
  7. "Far Away" – 4:04
  8. "Please Change Your Mind" – 4:46
  9. "Sleep Angel" – 4:12
  10. "Spread Your Wings" – 3:46
  11. "In the End" (featuring Annie Haslam) – 4:47
Bonus tracks
  1. "There in Your Bed" – 2:24
  2. "The Smile Has Left Your Eyes '05" – 3:42
  3. "Heat of the Moment '05" – 4:38

An Icon EP was also released (on Frontiers Records), featuring selected tracks from the album, with some being remixes with orchestrations by Mike Stobbie (indicated by * below)

EP Tracklist
  1. "Heat of the Moment '05" – 4:38
  2. "Overture/Paradox"*
  3. "Let Me Go"*
  4. "The Smile Has Left Your Eyes '05" – 3:42
  5. "In the End" (featuring Annie Haslam) – 4:47*
  6. "There in Your Bed" – 2:24

Personnel

  • Geoffrey Downes – keyboards, vocoder, producer
  • John Mitchell – guitars
  • John Wetton – vocals, basses, classical and acoustic guitars, producer
  • Steve Christey – drums
  • Hugh McDowell – cello
  • Rob Aubrey – engineer, mixing, mastering

    • Songs

    1Overture: Paradox - Let Me Go6:28
    2God Walks With Us4:40
    3I Stand Alone6:08

    References

    Icon (Wetton and Downes album) Wikipedia
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