Kings of Sleep is the second solo album released by bassist Stuart Hamm

Stuart Hamm

Stuart "Stu" Hamm is an American bass guitar player, known for his session and live work with numerous artists as well for his unconventional playing style and solo recordings.-Beginning career:...

. It was released on June 19, 1989 on Relativity Records

Relativity Records

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The title of the album and many of the songs were inspired by the novels and short stories of William Gibson

William Gibson

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, including the Neuromancer

Neuromancer

Neuromancer is a 1984 novel by William Gibson, a seminal work in the cyberpunk genre and the first winner of the science-fiction "triple crown" — the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award. It was Gibson's debut novel and the beginning of the Sprawl trilogy...

 ("Black Ice" and "Terminal Beach" are both references from that novel), Count Zero

Count Zero

Count Zero is a science fiction novel written by William Gibson, originally published 1986. It is the second volume of the Sprawl trilogy, which begins with Neuromancer and concludes with Mona Lisa Overdrive, and is a canonical example of the cyberpunk sub-genre.Count Zero was serialized by Isaac...

 (referring to the name of the novel as well as the hacker handle of one of the protagonists), and the short story The Winter Market

The Winter Market

-External links:* at the William Gibson Aleph...

 (Kings of Sleep is the name of a fictional stim-album in that story).

Track listing

All songs written by Stuart Hamm, except where noted.

1. "Black Ice" – 4:23
2. "Surely the Best" – 5:19
3. "Call of the Wild" – 4:41
4. "Terminal Beach" – 3:57
5. "Count Zero" – 4:13
6. "I Want to Know" – 5:39
7. "Prelude in C" (J.S. Bach
   Johann Sebastian Bach
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   ) – 2:30
8. "Kings of Sleep" (Kim Bullard & Stuart Hamm
   Stuart Hamm
   Stuart "Stu" Hamm is an American bass guitar player, known for his session and live work with numerous artists as well for his unconventional playing style and solo recordings.-Beginning career:...
   
   ) – 8:23

Personnel

• Stuart Hamm
  Stuart Hamm
  Stuart "Stu" Hamm is an American bass guitar player, known for his session and live work with numerous artists as well for his unconventional playing style and solo recordings.-Beginning career:...
  
   - Bass guitar
• Harry Cody - Electric Guitar on "Surely the Best", "Call of the Wild", "Count Zero" and "Kings of Sleep"
• Buzzy Feiten - Electric Guitar on "Black Ice" and "I Want to Know"
• Jonathan Mover
  Jonathan Mover
  Jonathan Mover is an American drummer who has worked with a number of artists including Aretha Franklin, Fuel, Alice Cooper, Shakira, Julian Lennon, GTR, Everlast, The Tubes, Mick Jagger, Steve Howe, Peter Frampton, Oleander, Celine Dion, Elton John, Stuart Hamm, They Might Be Giants, Frank...
  
   - Drums
• Amy Knoles - Percussion
• Scott Collard - Keyboards
• Dick Zimmerman - Photography
• David Bett - Art Direction
• Stuart Hamm
  Stuart Hamm
  Stuart "Stu" Hamm is an American bass guitar player, known for his session and live work with numerous artists as well for his unconventional playing style and solo recordings.-Beginning career:...
  
  - Producer