impressed by the strength of the material presented, the swiss progressive rock label 'galileo records' offered to release 'divorced land' internationally. the album has been mastered by the award-winning mastering engineer bob katz at digital domain. the cover art has been designed by the swiss company blackflame, who, btw, took all the pictures used on this website as backgrounds, too.

• tracklist
• credits
• song notes
• lyrics
• distribution / ordering information
• reviews
• samples

tracklist

1. outro - a striving after wind [3:25]
2. am i really here? [9:30]
3. faded [1:51]
4. one step further [14:25]
5. the weight of the wind [9:17]
6. access [1:27]
7. discussed [8:05]
8. naivety [2:01]
9. run [7:15]
10. denied [16:41]

credits

• udo gerhards - piano, organ, synthesizers, backing vocals on (7)
• ingo roden - bass
• thomas thielen - lead and backing vocals, guitars, keyboards on (8), add. organ on (2), (10)
• martin walter - acoustic and electronic drums

with:

• verena buchholz - flutes on (9)

performed and arranged by scythe
music by scythe except (3) by roden/walter, (8) by thielen
lyrics by thielen (2, 5, 7, 10) and gerhards (4, 9)

recorded 15-30 may 2000, graf salentin schule juenkerath

engineered by scythe and wolfgang schröder
mixed 08/2000 by wolfgang schröder, thomas thielen, udo gerhards at wolliwood studios dreis-brueck
mastered by bob katz at digital domain, www.digido.com
produced by thielen/gerhards

cover art by BlackFlame, www.blackflame.ch

equipment by scythe, wolfgang schröder and andy's music farm hillesheim

udo would like to thank: verena and my parents and sister for constant support and nearly inexhaustible patience in the face of this musical craziness. matthias peter for sowing the seeds. all those great musicians and performers who kept inspiring and educating me over the years.

ingo would like to thank: kerstin for inspiring my life with her love, my parents for supporting and tolerating me and especially my music. peter hierlwimmer for his friendship and open ears, all musicians for inspiration and last but not least dora roden for a lovely childhood.

thomas would like to thank: kathrin (k) for superhuman patience with me and her critical ears, my parents for support in every respect, kathrin widmann and thomas kuhnen for help with me, myself and my voice, the classics department at trier university for letting me have a 2 months' holiday right in the middle of the semester, dominik huettermann for clouds can and other experiments, fix sadler for criticism and sarcasm, caren (nonsun blob a), sandi (shantih, mr stetson?), and verena (nothing is but what is not) for themselves, my neighbours for not killing me, and, of course, sich - i wish i could say it’s been a pleasure.

martin would like to thank: vera for being there and - especially - with me; my parents and my sister for tolerating a kid drumming on everything not fixed (including silver plates! hey, they really sound good); thorsten mueller for being a very good friend; lucian, kathrin and sven for lots of support; all those people who keep progressive music alive, by playing or just by listening to it.

scythe would also like to thank: patrick becker, thomas' parents for catering, graf salentin schule juenkerath for support, verena buchholz for wonderful playing, [progrock-dt] and especially sal pichirredu for existing, the generous and supportive members of the scythe mailinglist, roger pecsok for his overwhelming support from the very beginning, markus wicker of radio dreyeckland, martin dambeck, jerry kranitz, jon yarger, juriaan hage, wolfgang volk, mike eldon, rene janssen, kristian selm, sebastiano curcuruto and öko, gerd weyhing and brightness falls, marcus weis and DURP, sfumato and especially sven schmidt as well as zenobia and especially uwe haass and alex "the don" fischer for this very rare thing called inter-band support, andy vadas, powds con fusion and terry pratchett.

very special thanks to wolfgang schröder for about everything involved with actually making this record - and judith for about a million cups of coffee and lunches, lots of patience and smiles during the mixing sessions.

extremely special thanks to apple s. without whom...

play this music loud or, even better, while sitting in an 18th century rocking chair with your face to a brownish orange wall with thin green stripes on it (no dots!), having just arrived back from a 12 ½ day- holiday in south-eastern bulgaria (romania does the job, too), chewing a gum (any fruit flavour except banana) backwards whilst thinking about may, 28th, 1827 (about dinner time). for best results, earplugs should be removed first.