Close to life ft Frank McComb & Leon Ware

Lyrics

Stephen Emmer, Glenn Gregory, Ursula Rucker and Chaka Khan

Mixing

Bob Power (New York, USA)

Additional mixing

Stephen Emmer and Lau Kagenaar (Amsterdam, NL)

Mastering

Chris Gehringer @ Sterling Sound (New York, USA)

Vinyl mastering by Mark Wilder @ Battery Studio’s (New York, USA)

Production

Executive producer: Joe d’Ambrosio

Associate producer: Lau Kagenaar

Pre-production and recording by Stephen Emmer and Lau Kagenaar at Stephen Emmer Studios (Amsterdam & Hilversum, NL)

Additional recording

Paul Power @ Power Sound Studio (Amsterdam, NL)

Ronald Prent and Fieke van den Hurk @ Wisseloord Studios (Hilversum, NL)

Bill Lefler @ BL Studios (Los Angeles, USA)

Michael Freeman @ CRC Studios (Chicago, USA)

Roy Hendrickson @ Avatar Studios (New York, USA)

Lawrence Manchester @ Milk Boy Studios (Philadelphia, USA)

Additional recording @ The Village Recorder Studio (Los Angeles, USA)

Additional recording @ Abbey Road Studios (London, UK)

Rob Macomber @ Jazz Lincoln Centre (New York, USA)

Musicians

Piano: Stephen Emmer, John Beasley and Lau Kagenaar

Drums: Yoran Vroom, Martijn Bosman and Joost Kroon

Drum: programming: Stephen Emmer

Percussion: Jeroen de Rijk

Electric Bass: Stephen Emmer

Double Bass: Hein Offermans

Acoustic & Electric Guitars: Stephen Emmer

Keyboards: Stephen Emmer

Vibraphone & Glockenspiel: Murk Jiskoot

Horns: Tom Beek, Matthias Konrad, Martijn de Laat, Bert Pfeiffer and Robbert Scherpenisse

Strings: Vera van der Bie, Marieke de Bruijn, Ian de Jong, Merel Jonker, Eilidh Martin, Ben Mathot, Isabella Petersen, Jasper van Rosmalen, Jan Willem Troost and Alex Welch

Backing vocals: Judith Petra, Denise van Donselaar, Ivar Vermeulen, Laurens Kagenaar and Shirma Rouse

Other

Project coordination: Maarten Bousie and Connie Kemp