Novella was a 1977 album by progressive rock band Renaissance

Renaissance (band)

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Information about the album

Due to the bankruptcy of the band's UK label BTM, this album was released in the USA some months before its UK release, leading to a number of UK fans importing copies. The cover in the USA was different from the UK one.

After the demise of BTM, the band agreed in principle to sign for CBS Records

CBS Records

CBS Records is a record label founded by CBS Corporation in 2006 to take advantage of music from its entertainment properties owned by CBS Television Studios. The initial label roster consisted of only three artists; rock band Señor Happy and singer/songwriters Will Dailey and P.J...

 UK. However they actually agreed a contract with Warner Brothers

Warner Bros. Records

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In the USA the album was released by Sire Records

Sire Records

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 (a Warners subsidiary) in March 1977 with the catalog number SA-7526. In the UK it was given a scheduled release in the same month by CBS with the catalog number S CBS 82137 and although some test pressings were made, the release did not go ahead. The album was eventually released by Warner Brothers in the UK on September 2, 1977 with the catalog number K 56422. It was also released in Japan in 1978 on the Warner Brothers / Pioneer label, catalog number WB P10492W.

The song "Can You Hear Me?" was sampled in the Deep Puddle Dynamics

Deep Puddle Dynamics

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' "We Ain't Fessin'

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Track listing

1. "Can You Hear Me?" (Camp-Dunford-Thatcher) – 13:38
2. "The Sisters" (Dunford-Thatcher-Tout) – 7:15
3. "Midas Man" (Dunford-Thatcher) – 5:47
4. "The Captive Heart" (Camp-Dunford) – 4:16
5. "Touching Once (Is So Hard to Keep)" (Camp-Dunford) – 9:27

Personnel

• Annie Haslam
  Annie Haslam
  Annie Haslam is an English progressive rock vocalist and songwriter.Originally a fashion student, she began studying under opera singer Sybil Knight in 1970 and developed her five-octave vocal range...
  
   - lead & backing vocals
• Jon Camp - bass, backing vocals, lead vocal cameo on "The Captive Heart"
• Michael Dunford - acoustic guitars, backing vocals
• John Tout - keyboards, backing vocals
• Terence Sullivan - drums, percussion, backing vocals