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Pictured Within
Pictured Within
Studio album by Jon Lord
Released	October 1998
Recorded	1997
Studio	Maarweg Studio (Cologne)
Length	74:44
Label	EMI
Producer	Jon Lord
Jon Lord chronology

Pictured Within was the first studio album from Deep Purple's Jon Lord in sixteen years. It features performances from Sam Brown, Miller Anderson, Pete York and Thijs van Leer among others. Pictured Within was released in October 1998 by Virgin Classics. "Wait a While", one of the few non-instrumental tracks off the album, performed by Sam Brown, was issued as a single in 1999. In addition, Jon Lord played a short tour of Germany in May 1999 to promote the album.

Track listing

Part 1 - The Valley

"Sunrise" (5:47)
"Pictured Within" (5:22) - Singer: Miller Anderson
"From the Windmill" (6:55)

Part 2 - Blue Sky Dreams

"Circles Of Stone" (2:24)
"Menorca Blue" (4:10)
"Evening Song" (8:00) - Singer: Sam Brown

Part 3 - Of Heroes and Heroines

"Music for Miriam" (4:48)
"Arc-En-Ciel" (4:29)
"Wait a While" (5:57) - Singer: Sam Brown

Part 4 - Beneath A Higher Heaven

"Crystal Spa (Kyrie Eleison)" (14:40)
"The Mountain-Sunset" (5:24)
"A Different Sky" (6:49)

Production notes

All music composed by Jon Lord. Lyrics by Jon Lord ("Pictured Within") and Sam Brown ("Evening Song", "Wait a While")
Mixed at the Everest Studios, Köln
Recorded at Maarweg Studios, Köln, 1997
Produced by Jon Lord
Engineered by Frank Meyer
Mixed by Frank Meyer and Jon Lord (assisted by Chris Heinemann)

Personnel

Jon Lord - piano
Hagen Kuhr - cello
Ina Stock - oboe, cor Anglais
Frank Struck - French horn
Rodrigo Reichel - violin
Stefan Pintev - violin
Vytas Sondeckis - cello
Mike Routledge - viola
Miller Anderson - vocal
Sam Brown - vocal
Mario Argandoña [es] - percussion, voices
Pete York - orchestral percussion
Colin Hodgkinson - fretless bass
Ravi - kora
Thijs Van Leer - flute
Rick Keller - soprano saxophone
Sabine Van Baaren - voices
Christina Lux-York - voices
Serge Mailiard - voices
Stefan Scheuss - voices