Pyramid in Your Backyard

Credits from Bandcamp

praful: lead vocals (naked), soprano sax, tenor sax, silver flute, bansuri (indian bamboo flutes), voice, harmonium, tanpura, guitar (hand-cart puller), keys, piano (april seven, wishful walk), fender rhodes, melodica
adani: keys, bass (april seven, hand-cart puller), voice (azul, drop to the ocean), wurlitzer (moon glide, wishful walk), piano (azul, drop to the ocean, we live on), dub gear & special FX
wolf: keys, bass (we live on), dub gear & special FX
sandhya sanjana: lead vocals (says kabir)
kátia moraes: lead vocals (acredite, ponto de partida)
sudha: lead vocals (eternity)
afra mussawisade: afra kit, pandeiro, congas, bongos, tavil, bendir, gomé, kanjira, ghatam, darbuka, repinique, djembe, krakab, shakers and other small percussion
rené dissel: electric bass (acredite, hand-cart puller, naked, drop to the ocean, ponto de partida) & acoustic bass (wishful walk)
martin denev: fender rhodes (acredite, azul, drop to the ocean)
serigne m. gueye: bugarabu, djembe (hand-cart puller)
rasiko: guitar (acredite, eternity, wishful walk)
david rothschild: trombone (wishful walk)
sushi: barking (eternity)

thank you’s
Adani & Wolf – we did it again – thanks for giving all!; Bart Thimbles and the Therapy Records crew; my band: Rene Dissel, Afra Mussawisade, Martin Denev, Kátia Moraes, Viviani Godoy, Vincent Vaillant, Niek Beemsterboer; all musicians who have contributed to this album or have played with me in the past (you are part of this music); Safi; Amura; Maneesh de Moor; Anita Dominguez; Joke Klop; Coast to Coast; Earth Beat; Dolf van der Doorn at Sony/ATV Music Publishing; United Recordings; NEWS; John La Manna; Chapman Management; Rendezvous Entertainment in LA; Mark and Paul at Machine; Nico Bodewes; Guus & Tim at MIDI Amsterdam; Serge & Marieke at SD Systems; Paulo Coelho for inspiring the album title; Diana & Krishna Booker and Marquinho Brasil for their full support in the US from day 1 on; Claudia Villela; Bart de Puij; Marcel Pantera; Gil Lopez; Maya Meijer; Herodoto, Daan & Neguinha from Estância Feliz in Barra do Jucu, Brasil; Juliana & Luisa in Rio; Jorrit Tamminga; Theo; Miten & Deva Premal; Martyn Philips; Gerry van der Zwaard; Berry Evers; Monte LaRue; Michel Stomp & Jacqueline Hofstra; Harsh Wardhan and Pratap Gujar for the Bansuris; Hariprasad Chaurasia; Osho, Ramesh and all who have shared their light with me; my loving Queen Saba, Gørillji - you keep me in!

All music composed by Praful, Roberto Adani and Daniël P. Wolf
All words by Praful except ‘Acredite’ by Praful and Rasiko, ‘Ponto de Partida’ by Kátia Moraes, ‘Says Kabir’ ancient poem by Sufi Mystic Kabir, arranged by Sandhya Sanjana

Produced, recorded, arranged and mixed by Adani & Wolf and Praful at Studio ‘De Boot’, floating somewhere in Amsterdam www.studiodeboot.com
Additional recordings by Praful at Mystic Productions (NL), and by German Ortiz at Studio MC3, Miami (USA)

Praful plays SD Systems Instrument Microphones

Published by Sony/ATV Music Netherlands
Mastered by Errol Lem at cut-n-clear.com
Design and photography by Machine www.ourmachine.com
Additional photos by Praful, Gørill Gabrielsen and René Dissel
Executive producer: Bart Thimbles

‘everything that’s worth living for: love, truth, joy, inspiration
is like a bird in the morning sun, suddenly here and gone with no trace’