“ALBUM LINER NOTES” and Track List

CHAPTER ONE

PUNJAB 139

Alan Ace Cooper ©2006 Thumpasaurus Music 2006 ASCAP
Alan Ace Cooper – 5 String Bass, 8 String Bass, e-Dohl drum, Keyboards, Udu, Percussion, Drum programming. Drum Program editing by Darryl White. Monika Gupta – Spoken Word and Punjabi Indian Translation. Produced by Alan Ace Cooper. Engineered by Mike Andreski and Keith Burrell.

This track is my take on David’s 139th Psalm. I used the Middle Eastern flavored drum loop and added a Punjabi styled drum rhythm with a Peter Gabriel/Tony Levin bass tone, then I tossed in some Funk for additional flavor! All of it set the tone for Monika’s incredible voice!

HEAVEN

BeBe Winans, Keith Thomas ©1988 ASCAP/BMI, Cherry Lane Music, BMG Songs Inc., DASNice Publishing. Benny’s Music Publishing. Arranged by Tony Waters and Alan Ace Cooper. Alan Ace Cooper – Bass and Dumbek drum; Tony Waters – Keyboards; Charles Marvray – Drums. Produced by Alan Ace Cooper. Engineered by Shannon Walton. Additional Engineering by Keith Burrell. Editing by John Krauss.

A great track that Charles and I nailed on the first take. Raw studio “live” energy!

INFATUATION

Chaz Mason ©2004 Steven Wade Publishing, Alan Ace Cooper – Bass and Djembe drum; Chaz Mason – All Vocals, Keyboards and Acoustic Guitar. Produced by Chaz Mason and Ace Cooper (ASCAP). Engineered by Terry Clarkson, Chaz Mason and Keith Burrell.

Easily one of the best love songs ever written!

IT’LL BE JOY!

Tony Waters, Alan Ace Cooper, Charles Marvray ©2000 Thumpasaurus Music ASCAP. Alan Ace Cooper – Bass and Djembe drum; Tony Waters – Keyboards; Charles Marvray – Drums; Charles Wright – Electric Guitar; Al Williams – Saxophone. Produced by Sacred Groove. Engineered by Shannon Walton. Additional Engineering by Keith Burrell.

JUST ONE MORE DAY

Chaz Mason ©2003 Steven Wade Publishing. Alan Ace Cooper – Bass; Chaz Mason – All Vocals and Keyboards; Jerry Mason – Hand played Drum Samples. Produced by Chaz Mason and Alan Ace Cooper (ASCAP). Engineered by Chaz Mason and Keith Burrell.

CHAPTER TWO

MY ETERNITY

Alan Ace Cooper ©2006 Thumpasaurus Music ASCAP. Alan Ace Cooper – Acoustic Electric Bass, Drum programming, Darbuka drum and Spoken Vocals. Produced by Alan Ace Cooper. Engineered by Chris Amedy and Keith Burrell.

THE DEN

Tony Waters, Alan Ace Cooper, Charles Marvray ©2000 Thumpasaurus Music ASCAP. Alan Ace Cooper – Bass; Tony Waters – Keyboards; Charles Marvray – Drums and percussion; Charles Wright – Electric Guitar. Produced by Sacred Groove. Engineered by Shannon Walton. Editing by Keith Burrell.

VAC’IO SEPULCRO (EMPTY TOMB)

Alan Ace Cooper ©1990 Thumpasaurus Music ASCAP; Alan Ace Cooper – Electric Basses, Alesis HR-16 Drum Machine programming. Produced by Alan Ace Cooper. Engineered by Cory Stocker and Keith Burrell.

White ID (PHONE MESSAGE)

Actual Voicemail from Greg Atkinson ©2006 ASCAP.

CraAZY! My favorite part is that he left his own beep noise!

FULL PUNJABI DINNER/MUMBO SAUCE & CHICKEN WINGS

Alan Ace Cooper ©2006 Thumpasaurus Music ASCAP; Alan Ace Cooper – Electric Bass, Darbuka drums, Keyboards, e-Dohl drum, Udu, all Keyboard drum samples and Vocals on Mumbo Sauce. Drum program editing by Tony Waters. Voice clip from “Bend It Like Beckham”: Directed by; Gurinder Chadha. FOX Movies USA, RedBus Films UK. Produced by Alan Ace Cooper. Engineered by Keith Burrell and Cory Stocker.

I am in love with the Beckham movie and it’s star, Parminder Nagra. Musically, I was inspired by Punjabi artist, Bally Sagoo, Milkit Singh, B21 and Hans Raj Hans. Once I realized how community relational Punjabi/Bhangra and Washington, DC GoGo music styles were, I decided to fuse the two. For Mumbo Sauce I borrowed some inspiration from Chuck Brown, Sugar Bear with EU and Atlanta’s, Anthony Hamilton. It took a lot for this 3 minute track, but I wanted to play every thing and play it well. My favorite bass solo is on this track.

CHAPTER THREE

MR. MILLER

Alan Ace Cooper ©2006 Thumpasaurus Music ASCAP. Alan Ace Cooper – Electric Bass and Drum Programming. Produced by Alan Ace Cooper. Engineered by Keith Burrell.

The original title was going to be “The Thumpasaurus Rex”. However, I am a HUGE fan of Bassist and Composer, Marcus Miller, so I thought it fitting to dedicate this track.

ANOINTING

Donn Thomas ©1988 New Spring Music Publishing. Arranged by Tony Waters, Charles Marvray, Alan Ace Cooper. Alan Ace Cooper – Bass, Tony Waters- Keyboards; Charles Marvray – Drums and Percussion; Charles Wright – Electric Guitar; Larry Seals – Saxophone. Produced by Sacred Groove. Engineered by Shannon Walton. Editing by Keith Burrell.

A great track from the SG When 3 Become One disc. Everything and everybody just seemed to click that day. A major leap from the Ron Kenoly version.

HOW YOU LOVE ME

Michael Himes ©2003. Alan Ace Cooper – Acoustic Electric Bass, Djembe drum and Percussion; Michael Himes – Vocals and Acoustic Guitar. Produced by Michael Himes and Alan Ace Cooper (ASCAP). Engineered by Michael Himes and Keith Burrell.

I could hardly track this song without crying. The lyric, “You love me like gravity, always pulling me” is amazing!

I WILL FOLLOW “LIVE BOOTLEG” (BONUS TRACK)

Tony Waters and Al McSpadden ©2006 ASCAP. Alan Ace Cooper – Bass; Tony Waters – Keyboards; Al McSpadden – Soprano Saxophone, Chris Hibbert – Drums. Produced by Sacred Groove. Editing by Keith Burrell.

I really wanted to include this track because it is a special performance by a special group of musicians! It comes as a Bonus Track because of it’s less than perfect sound quality. I had it dumped into ProTools from a cassette tape that someone mailed to me. The live audience claps were weak, so I added some less than authentic hand claps from a Korg Triton. As with Anointing, everyone seemed to be clicking that day.

OPEN BOOK

Alan Ace Cooper ©2006 ASCAP. Alan Ace Cooper – Drum programming and Darbuka drum; Monika Gupta – Spoken Word and Translation. Produced by Alan Ace Cooper. Engineered by Mike Andreski and Keith Burrell.