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The Passengers (Remasters 2020)

by Diako Diakoff

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1.
Under the heat I can hear the sound is turning, turning in the air And staying inside my veins Above our heads sky is always blue oh yeah it’s so wonderful The world is crazy but so beautiful Millions of Saturns surrounding me but I’m not scared Cause it’s so magical People are smiling like in musicals Is it real or is it true? Well, good morning, hello out there It’s so cold now, kill the turkey Under the heat sky is always blue and heavy, won’’t you kiss the sky? Gimme me water, please, won’t you cry? Please, won’t you cry? Please, won’t you cry? Under the heat! Under the heat! Under the heat! Under the heat!
2.
If you want to live all your dreams Look at the world on a screen So simple and fine Make up your mind Have a good time Have a good time I’ve got my girl and it’s so cool She says ‘Hey, don’t be a fool!’ So simple and fine Don’t go away, stay, baby stay Stay! No, it’s not a good time to keep your illusions You’d better have imagination It’s not because you use your brains That you’ll become mad or insane Just singing yea-ah Singing La-la-la-la Just singing yea-ah Singing La-la-la-la La-La-La-La-La-Laaa There was a time when men were ready To fight and die for a lady It looked simple and fine Open your arms to her fatal charms She makes me believe in the future A future I don’t know I know nothing about it Or so little baby, so little No, it’s not a good time to keep your illusions You’d better have imagination It’s not because you use your brains That you’ll become mad or insane Just singing yea-ah Singing La-la-la-la Just singing yea-ah Singing La-la-la-la La-La-La-La-La-Laaa
3.
When you want to be somebody If you want to be someone Looking at the mess around you Well, now you know you’d better hold on Why should it be so hard? I don’t know my friend I just try day after day to take the lead of my song To take the lead of my song (Chorus) Be your leader Jump in the situation and choose your destination Be your leader Take a rock in your hand Don’t hide your head in the sand Be your leader And the world will turn around When you want to be the best one If you want to stay a pure one You have to know you chose the hard way And you’ll remember it every day Why should it be so hard? I don’t know my friend I just try day after day to keep the lead of my song To keep the lead of my song (To chorus 2x)
4.
Talking about intoxication Secret garden of queen confusion That gives the world information That you can see on television Something wrong, mister? Oh no, it’s cool Am I wrong sister? Oh no…you’re cool I want no more sugar in my coffee I want no more heroes for sale I want no more sugar in my coffee I just want no more heroes for sale Certain days I wonder really Is it a world for a baby Is money, king of nations Guarantees his liberation? I want no more sugar in my coffee I want no more heroes for sale I want no more sugar in my coffee I just want no more heroes for sale No heroes for sale! Lift up! Lift up! Lift up your heart baby!
5.
I was dancing with my little Suzy Down the beach She was so close to me It seems so easy A gentle deal, simple and fine I just looked at her body all against mine But watch out Said my black angel Remember you’re not lucky You’re not lucky with blondes Brazilian girl, please look at me Was singing the man in Portuguese I’ve tried to touch her I’ve tried to kiss her But she didn’t want to And I thought She don’t want me The wind, so quietly delightful Was launching our souls on a lazy moon Brazilian girl, please look at me Was singing the man in Portuguese (3X)
6.
Believe 05:10
When Lee was a little boy He had closed the doors of his soul He was a very complicated Kind of guy No one could tell what happened in his mind Not even Lee himself When he was looking at the sky He seemed to find his inspiration in the blue Strange little boy This song’s for you Cause I feel like you sometimes Scared and lost in this world Now he’s grown up He’s a singer in a band With music he tries to make ‘em understand So he shouts, and he shouts Till he blows out his mind And he listens to his soul Yes he wants, he wants to Believe! Believe! Believe! Believe! Now he’s a man He’s got a family As a man he’s got such responsibilities But sometimes he dreams And his mind flies in the blue And he listens to his soul She says trust me and just Believe
7.
What a Beautiful day to live and believe But there’s a sad man close to a lake His mind is swimming Among his red fish friends He’s in love ans he’s ok It’s the secret A simple key Dreams will be dreams Hiding in Reality I can’t believe I can’t believe I can’t believe I can’t believe Look up this man His dropping the world Like a basket ball He’s a quiet one A guy like you But he’s got Waves in heart Walking for nothing Under the wall He gives his soul To the silence And now he’s sleeping well In his bed With a baby face I can’t believe I can’t believe I can’t believe I can’t believe!
8.
I was sleeping in the past Woke to a brand new day At last my head is full of dreams Again I can see the world I can see the world! I was lying on the grass Smoking something smelling good Smoking, I’m smoking It helps me to forget To forget what? That I’m just watching, and I’m hoping, and I’m praying That what will be now will be forever And I’m watching, hoping, and I’m praying That what will be now will be forever It’s a kind of state of grace In this world where all goes too fast I’m wishing for a status quo, but… What happens? I don’t know I don’t know! And I’m watching, and I’m hoping, and I’m praying That what will be now will be forever And I’m watching, hoping, and I’m praying That what will be now will be forever And I’m watching, hoping, and I’m praying That what will be now will be forever Let’s play it together Listen to the wise man He can make the moon come up And I’m watching, and I’m hoping, and I’m praying That what will be now will be forever And I’m watching, hoping, and I’m praying That what will be now will be forever
9.
10.
When Ed met Sally in that little bar A place where pretty girls take the lonely hearts He was lost in his mind Keeping his head in the sky If you think too much You’re going to lose you Said a little voice With a smile on her lips She was moving her hips so fine And she said again: We don’t make love no more Or we do it so badly Let your animal talk Let your animal talk Let your… Let your animal talk! Let come out of you A primal scream Let your body tells you How to get high And how to shine How to make love so fine Just keep your mind free Let your animal talk! Let your animal talk! Let your animal talk! Let your animal talk!
11.
12.
‘All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide’ My lady and I were slowly drifting away She taught me what you don’t learn at school I’ve tried to give the same back And now it’s time to spread our wings I want to see some blue and green Not forget the taste of tangerine And dream Worn my eyes out on the beautiful And scream Run and jump and smile just like the fool That I am I want to see some blue and green Not forget the taste of tangerine And dream Worn my eyes out on the beautiful And scream Run and jump and smile just like the fool And dream Worn my eyes out on the beautiful And scream Run and jump and smile just like the fool That I am

about

In the summer of 1990, after a chance encounter in Brussels, Belgium, I was invited to Sao Paulo, Brazil, by the ex-members of the French/Brazilian band Metro with the project of putting a new band together. Versatile drummer/comedian Dany Pinto-Roland and Enoesque keyboardist Yann Laouenan, followed me back to Brussels. Their old time friend Olivier Daube (now Lumiere), an ex-dancer, model and fashion scout, would become our manager. Through a friend of his, Jean-Cedric Van Der Belen, who would finance the project, the band moved into a house, each member occupying a floor. The basement was then promptly turned into a rehearsal space. My friend Denis Moulin, son of Belgian producer Marc Moulin, would soon join the group as our solid-as-an-ox bass player. I suddenly found myself surrounded by a talented, luminous, enthusiastic group of people and the adventure began in earnest.
At the time I didn’t speak English…I only pretended I could!
I wrote the lyrics from words and expressions I had heard in songs and movies, which strangely ended up organizing themselves to tell the story I intended to tell…albeit a lot of poetic license. We started playing live shows and quickly gathered a small but devoted fan base. After a few months we had our first studio session at studio Caraibes with super sound engineer Gilles Martin. In a few days, the first half of the album was in the can. More live shows, radio shows, and daily rehearsals practicing new songs, ensued. A few months later we were ready for the second recording session.
Towards the end of the week of recordings, Thierry Plas, a top session guitar player and member of the band Machiavel, showed up at the studio and told me about Machiavel's first guitarist , Jack ‘Dingo’ Roskam. Jack had been living in Croatia for ten years, but with the war then raging in ex-Yugoslavia, had decided to come back to safety to Belgium with his wife and young kids. Yann and I went to meet him. We got along right away and thought he’d be a great addition to the band. The rest of the Passengers welcomed him with the same enthusiasm. He was invited to the studio and recorded a great guitar solo on song 8. The album also features a solo track of his (11) which he recorded at home in the small Croatian costal village where he lived, while the region was getting bombarded. The title means ‘Sky over Vergoratz’.

The last track ‘Blue and Green' is the first song we recorded as a duet. After the collapse of the band, due mostly to the usual artistic differences and personality clashes with management, Jack and I kept on going as a Space Blues experimental duet named Heavenly Tramps after Jack Kerouac’s book ‘The Dharma Bums’.

That will be the story of the next album I will upload here on Bandcamp.

For now I hope you will enjoy this album like an old fashioned record: Pump up the volume, put the first song on, and let it roll!

Thank you all for your support!

Diako

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released September 15, 2020

Diako Diakoff / Vocals, Guitars
Dany Pinto-Roland / Drums, Backing Vocals
Yann Laouenan / Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Denis Moulin / Bass, Backing Vocals
Jack 'Dingo' Roskam / Guitar solo on tracks on 8,10,11

Special guest: TC: Slide guitar on track 1

Produced by The Passengers
Recorded and mixed by Gilles Martin at Studio Caraibes, Brussels
Executive producer: Adrenaline Music
(Special thanks to Jean-Cedric Van Der Belen)
Management: Olivier Daube

Re-mastered by: Pierre 'Lele' Lebecque

Cover photo by: Serge Rovenne
Cover artwork: Jon Hebert

Special Thanks to:

Dany, Yann, Denis, Jack, Olivier, Janine, Hannah, Isabelle Adam, Jano Buchem, Fred Laouenan, Alec Ayat, Fernando Zarif, Jerome Millet, Jean-Leo,Chris Delvaux, Bonne maman Califice, Stephan et Georges Colman, Papy, Pascal, Jacques, Lele, Jim, Manoli, Fabrizio Borrini, Eric Maltaite, Stephane et Christophe Donnet, Fernand et Dominique Flaush, Plastic Bertrand, Michel Antaki, Pierre Leonard, Marc and Etienne Wathieu, Alain Pire, Daniel Romeo, Jacques de Pierpont, Marc Isaye, Jean-Louis Hennar... (to be continued)

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Diako Diakoff New Orleans, Louisiana

Album produced by Dashiell Manley (Los Angeles).

Ray Belli: Drums
Will Salwen: Bass
DD: Vocals, Piano, Guitars, Synthesizer.

Recorded at The Maid's Room Studio (NYC)
Engineers:
Jason Candler
Jack McKeever,

Mixed by Jon Candler and DD

Mastered by AJ Tissian (Wave Lab) Brooklyn.

Special Thanks to Patrick Vaillancourt.
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