The beautifully designed cover for my second album by Michel Laverdière. The entire artwork, including booklet, is available as a pdf at the bottom of this gallery.

When I had the amazing experience of spending a few hours talking with Tony Banks of Genesis in 2006, I showed him my proposed track list for the album. He signed it "Thanks For Everything! Tony Banks." This is the back cover of the notebook in which I wrote down all my questions for him.

I originally tried to record Plays More Genesis at Knox Presbyterian Church in St. Catharines, Ontario, courtesy my dear friends Karen and Jim MacCabe, Karen Shakespeare and Ron Eckstein, (pictured).

Me, Mike Phelan and Ron Eckstein, getting set up for the recording.

La Chapelle du Bon Pasteur with Robert Lafond and Michel Laverdière, reunited for Part Deux.

w. Robert Lafond.

La Chapelle du Bon Pasteur, Montreal.

In front of La Chapelle, on rue Sherbrooke in Montreal. 2007.

François Fortin, who was The Musical Box driver for a while, André Bazinet and Michel Laverdière.

from the balcony behind the control area.

Note the essential oil burner in the foreground :)

Project Co-Ordinator Alain Granger and Engineer Robert Lafond

After the La Chapelle sessions, I went to record some of the tracks at my friend Mark Camilleri's studio in Toronto. in the end, the slow, soft tracks were used from the La Chapelle sessions, and all the up-tempo pieces were from Imagine Sound.

Getting initial levels for recording.

Download the entire beautiful Plays More Genesis booklet and artwork designed by Michel Laverdière.