Editing Imaginos III: Mutant Reformation

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Imaginos III: Mutant Reformation''}}
{{Infobox album
|title=''Mutant Reformation''
|image=Mutant Reformation cover.jpg
|artist=[[Albert Bouchard]]
|released=July 7, 2023
|recorded=2022–2023
|length=TBA
|label=Deko Entertainment<br>RockHeart Records
|producer=Albert Bouchard
|previous-album=''[[Imaginos II: Bombs Over Germany (minus zero and counting)]]''
|next-album=TBA}}
'''''Imaginos III: Mutant Reformation''''' is the fifth solo studio album by [[Albert Bouchard]] and the third album in Bouchard's ''Imaginos'' trilogy, preceded by ''[[Imaginos II: Bombs Over Germany (minus zero and counting)]]''. It was released on July 7, 2023 by RockHeart Records, an imprint of Deko Entertainment owned by Albert and [[Joe Bouchard]].

== Personnel ==
=== Music ===
* [[Albert Bouchard|Prince Omega]] – drums, guitars, vocals, organ, horn samples, acoustic guitars, percussion, bodhran, synths, timpani, theremin, baritone guitars; piano (track 5); lead vocal (tracks 2–3, 5–6, 12–13, 15, 17); narration (track 11); all guitars (tracks 6–7); lead guitar (tracks 15, 17); chant, harmonies, ebow guitar (track 18)
* John Willoughby – upright bass (track 1)
* Susie "The Bomb Builder" Loraine – narration (track 1), harmony vocals (tracks 2, 3, 5, 6, 13), background vocals (tracks 9, 12, 15, 17); lead vocal (tracks 10, 16)
* Cyzon Griffin – drums (tracks 2, 3, 5–17)
* David Hirschberg – bass; background vocals (tracks 5–6, 8–9, 12, 15–16)
* Ace Bouchard – Moog Werkstatt (tracks 2, 13)
* The Dictators (all track 4)
** Albert Bouchard – drums, background vocals
** Andy Shernoff – bass
** Keith Roth – lead vocal, rhythm guitar
** Ross "The Boss" Friedman – lead guitars
* Mike Fornatale – electric guitars (tracks 5, 8, 15); lead and rhythm guitars, lead vocal (track 11); rhythm guitars (track 17)
* [[Joe Bouchard]] – keys (tracks 5, 8, 11, 15, 17); guitar, lead vocal (track 14)
* Steve Conte – lead guitar (track 5)
* Mike Watt – lead vocal (track 7)
* Kenny Aaronson – bass 6
* Greg Holt – violins
* [[Richie Castellano]] – percussion, keys, lead and background vocals (track 8)
* Dana McCoy – background vocals (track 8)
* [[Eric Bloom]] – narration (track 8)
* Steve Ridley – background vocal (track 8)
* Benny Landa – lead guitar, slide guitar, acoustic guitar (track 9)
* Joe Cerisano – lead vocal, background vocals (track 9)
* RJ Ronquillo – lead guitar (tracks 10, 13–14)
* [[Kasim Sulton]] – vocals, arrangement (track 11)
* Ayumi Mitsuishi – Japanese narration (track 11)
* Joan Levy Hepburn – top line vocal (track 14)
* Isabella Kosai – background vocal (track 14)
* Jim Bouchard – lead vocal, harmonies, chant, temple bell, banjo, melodica, Jew's harp (track 18)

=== Production ===
* Albert Bouchard – producer
* Steve Hardy – mixing
* Andy VanDette – mastering
* McClee Mathias – engineer
* Richard Zoll – front and back cover
* Ace Bouchard – inner photos
* Lee Stokes – album layout and design
* Jeff Keller – management
* Lenny Kaye – liner notes
* Tracks 5, 8, 11, 14, 15, 17 recorded live at Carriage House Studios, Stamford CT
* Special thanks to Steve Schenck, Blue Öyster Cult, Mark Stein, Kasim Sulton, Don Falcone, The Dictators, Richard Meltzer, Aldo Nova, Rich Niesen, Dom Berard, Peter McLean, Andy Travers, Francis Ciochon, Charli Calv, Bruce Pucciarello, Tom Morrongiello, Cold Weather Company, Mendelssohn Glee Club, Knuckle Head, Rising Dragon Tattoos, Johnny Montagnese, Tish and Snooky, Dennis and Cindy Dunaway, Lou Molinaro, Robert Gordon, Bill Moser, Al Kooper, Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye
* Dedicated to the memory of [[Sandy Pearlman|Samuel Clark Pearlman]]


== Track listing ==
{| class="article-table"
!#
!Title
!Writer(s)
!Lead vocals
!Length
|-
| colspan="5" |'''Side A'''
|-
|1
|[[Welcome to Desdanovaland]]
|A. Bouchard, S. Loraine
|S. Loraine
|1:01
|-
|2
|[[Flaming Telepaths]]
|A. Bouchard, D. Roeser, S. Pearlman
|A. Bouchard
|5:32
|-
|3
|[[Queens Boulevard|The Queen's Graveyard]]
|A. Lanier, S. Pearlman
|A. Bouchard
|4:13
|-
|4
|[[Transmaniacon MC|Transmaniacon]]
|A. Bouchard, D. Roeser, S. Pearlman
|A. Bouchard
|3:24
|-
|5
|[[Career of Evil]]
|A. Bouchard, P. Smith
|A. Bouchard
|4:40
|-
| colspan="5" |'''Side B'''
|-
|6
|[[St. Cecilia]]
|[[Andrew Winters|A. Winters]], S. Pearlman
|A. Bouchard
|3:35
|-
|7
|[[Curse of the Hidden Mirrors]]
|A. Bouchard, R. Meltzer
|Mike Watt
|3:22
|-
|8
|[[Mountain of Madness]]
|A. Bouchard, R. Castellano, S. Pearlman
|R. Castellano
|5:57
|-
|9
|[[Redeemed]]
|Harry Farcas, A. Bouchard, S. Pearlman
|Joe Cerisano
|4:08
|-
| colspan="5" |'''Side C'''
|-
|10
|[[Mothra and Starfish|Mothra <nowiki>&</nowiki> Starfish]]
|A. Lanier, S. Loraine, S. Pearlman
|S. Loraine
|2:56
|-
|11
|[[Godzilla]]
|D. Roeser
|Mike Fornatale
|4:10
|-
|12
|[[R. U. Ready 2 Rock|R.U. Red D.2]]
|A. Bouchard, S. Pearlman
|A. Bouchard
|3:36
|-
|13
|[[Sole Survivor]]
|John Trivers, Liz Myers, E. Bloom
|A. Bouchard
|4:29
|-
|14
|[[E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)|E.T.I.]]
|D. Roeser, S. Pearlman
|J. Bouchard
|4:45
|-
| colspan="5" |'''Side D'''
|-
|15
|[[Take Me Away|Aldebaran Alien Take Me Away]]
|A. Bouchard, Aldo Nova, E. Bloom
|A. Bouchard
|3:42
|-
|16
|[[Arianna of Earth]]
|A. Bouchard, S. Loraine
|S. Loraine
|3:53
|-
|17
|[[Heavy Metal: The Black and Silver|Heavy Metal<nowiki>/</nowiki>Black and Silver]]
|A. Bouchard, E. Bloom, S. Pearlman
|A. Bouchard
|4:34
|-
|18
|[[Buddha's Knee]]
|A. Bouchard, S. Pearlman
|Jim Bouchard
|3:41
|}

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