Strange Advance "Worlds Away" (1982) -SynthPop / High Tech AOR-

Label : Capitol Records

Top Side

01 - She Controls Me (Drew Arnott & Darryl Kromm)

02 - Love Games (Drew Arnott)

03 - One Chance In A Million (Drew Arnott)

04 - Sister Radio (Darryl Kromm)

05 - Automatic Sighs (Drew Arnott & Darryl Kromm)

Bottom Side

01 - Worlds Away (Drew Arnott)

02 - Kiss In The Dark (Drew Arnott & Darryl Kromm)

03 - Hold On To The Nite (Drew Arnott)

04 - Watermusic (Robert Minden)

05 - Prisoner (Peter Bjerring & Darryl Kromm)

06 - Reprise 'Worlds Away' (Drew Arnott)

Drew Arnott : Keyboards, Drums, Electronic Percussion, Backing vocals

Paul Iverson : Basses, Backing vocals

Darryl Kromm : Lead vocals, Guitars

Produced by Bruce Fairbairn

*Engineered by Rob Rock

Assisted by Mike Fraser

Recorded at Little Mountain Studios - Feb to May '82

°Engineered by Lindsay Kidd

Assisted by Dave Ogilvie

Recorded at Mushroom Studios - August '82

Guest Artists :

Bob Rock : Additional Rhythm Guitar on "Prisoner"

Dawnlea Tait : Backing vocals & German v/o on "Hold On To The Nite"

Paul Dean : Lead Guitar on "Prisoner"

Albert St. Albert : Percussion on "One Chance In A Million"

James McCulloch : Additional Guitar on "Automatic Sighs"

Peter Bjerring : Piano on "Worlds Away"

Bryan Adams : Additional Backing vocals on "She Controls Me"

Beau Hill : Backing vocals on "Prisoner"

Bruce Fairbairn : Assorted Backing vocals

Strange Advance ‎"The Distance Between" (1988) -High Tech AOR / SynthPop-

Label : Capitol Records

 Side 1

01 - Till The Star Fall (Drew Arnott & Darryl Kromm)
02 - Love Becomes Electric (Darryl Kromm)
03 - Who Lives Next Door (Drew Arnott & Paul Hyde)
04 - Love Is Strange (Drew Arnott & Darryl Kromm)
05 - This Island Earth (Darryl Kromm)

Side 2

01 - Hold You (Drew Arnott)
02 - Crying In The Ocean (Drew Arnott)
03 - Wild Blue (Drew Arnott & Darryl Kromm)
04 - Rock And Whirl (Darryl Kromm)
05 - Ultimate Angels (Drew Arnott & Dawnlea Tait-Arnott)
06 - Alien Time (Drew Arnott & Darryl Kromm)


Produced by Drew Arnott with Howard Ayee & *Joe Primeau (*for Do Re Mi Productions Inc.)
Engineered by Joe Primeau & Lenny DeRose
Assisted by Darren Miller, Randy Staub & Earl Torno
Mixed by Lenny DeRose except "Who Lives Next Door" Mixed by Bob Rock
Recorded at Phase One Studios, Toronto
Additional Recording at Do Re Mi Studio, Toronto ; Mushroom Studios, Vancouver & Nuke Sound, Pickering
Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Masterdisk, N.Y.C.

Strange Advance is :
Darryl Kromm : Vocals, Guitar & 12 String
Drew Arnott : Vocals, Keyboards & Programming

Additional Musicians :
Drums : Greg Critchley ("Love Becomes Electric", "Alien Time" ) & Owen Tennyson ("Hold You")

Guitar : Jim Hubby ("Love Is Strange", "Hold You", "Crying In The Ocean"), Ian Cameron ("Hold You"), Simon Brierley ("Till The Star Fall", "Who Lives Next Door"), Allan Holdsworth ("Who Lives Next Door", "Alien Time"), Ed Shaw ("Who Lives Next Door", "Wild Blue"), Randy Bachman ("Love Is Strange")

Bass : Howard Ayee ("Till The Star Fall", "Love Becomes Electric", "Who Lives Next Door", "Hold You", "Alien Time"), Matthew Gerrard ("Love Is Strange", "Crying In The Ocean", "Wild Blue"), Steve Webster ("Crying In The Ocean", "Rock And Whirl")

Violin : Ian Cameron ("Crying In The Ocean")

Pedal Steel : Kenny Greer ("Love Is Strange")

Background vocals : Peter Fredette ("Who Lives Next Door", "Hold You", "Alien Time"), Storm (10), Howard Ayee ("Till The Star Fall"), Joe Primeau ("Till The Star Fall", "Alien Time")

Soprano : Dawnlea Arnott ("Hold You", "Ultimate Angels")

Emulator Programming : Billy Chapman
Additional Programming : Howard Ayee, Scott Humphries, Gerald O'Brien
Alto Saxophone : Andrew Arnott ("This Island Earth")