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Raining Heart

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The Raining Heart is an original 80's synth-pop project by the German producers / composers Peter Heckmann and Tobias Freund - newly digitized, restored and remastered from original vinyl source materials. Original record labels: FOG Records, Frankfurt (*Raining Heart / *Alien Beat) and Constant Musik GmbH (*Hollywood) Performed by Alexandra Graf (vocals) and Peter Heckmann (keyboard, drum programming, bass) Additional musicians: Wolfgang Palm (PPG programming) Chris Evans (keyboards) Tobias Freund (keyboards) Peter Weihe (guitars) Milos Vuckovic (guitars) All compositions and lyrics by Peter Heckmann, Tobias Freund and Alexandra Graf Produced by Peter Heckmann for Tinus Musikverlag, Frankfurt (*Raining Heart / *Alien Beat) and Constant Musikverlag, Hamburg (*Hollywood) Recorded January/February 1985 (*Raining Heart / *Alien Beat) and August 1985 (*Hollywood) at Europasound Studios, Frankfurt Engineered by Tobias Freund, Peter Heckmann and Bernd Schoenhofen Cover design by Peter Heckmann, Renate Reinshagen and Nicolas Vassiliev Cover Photo by Thomas Suesskind A big Thank You to Wolfgang Palm for the use of his personal PPG Wave synthesizer system and Waldorf Musik for the use of the Oxford Synthesiser Company's OSCar mono synth and the Simmons SDS7 drum rack and EProm burners.