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black 3 Her Song 6:07 4 Seven Thirty 5:25 featuring Mike Stern 5 Mike 6/4 6:33 yellow 6 Common Ground 6:35 7 All You Need 7:40 8 Point Blank 4:21

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All compositions by Jan Gunnar Hoff except tracks 4, 6 & 7 composed by Mike Stern cyan

Jan Gunnar Hoff piano, keyboards Mike Stern guitar, vocals Photo Henrik Dvergsdal Per Mathisen electric and acoustic bass Audun Kleive drums page 1 Recorded March 4 and 5, 2018 by Hans Andreas Horntveth Jahnsen at Propeller Studio, , Norway

Mixed June 2018 by Olav Erik Johansen Losen Records LOS 196-2 Mastered August 2018 by Morten Lund at Lund´s Lyd, Oslo Produced by Jan Gunnar Hoff and Per Mathisen Executive producer Odd Gjelsnes featuring Mike Stern Stern Mike featuring Front cover photo by maxeilert Cover design by design holtmann This recording is supported by Fond for lyd og bilde

© 2018 Losen Records www.losenrecords.no [email protected] LOS 196-2 All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication, public performance and broadcasting of the music Photo Henrik Dvergsdal on this CD is a violation of applicable laws. Made in EU. ISRC: NO2NJ1896 7 090025 831966 Jan Gunnar Hoff Group DBXXX2XX – ADP06001

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