The World Is a Game by Mystery

The World is a Game is the sixth studio album by the Canadian progressive rock band Mystery, with Michel St-Père - electric and acoustic guitars, keyboards, Benoît David - vocals, and additional musicians Antoine Fafard - fretted and fretless bass, acoustic guitars, Nick D'Virgilio - drum and Marilène Provencher-Leduc - flute. Long time drummer Steve Gagné had left the band in 2011, causing Mystery founder, Michel St-Père, to find a new drummer. While Nick D'Virgilio was touring with Cirque du Solei in Canada, Michel contacted him about recording the drum tracks for the album as a session musician, to which he agreed. Antoine Fafard, who had worked with Mystery also as a session musician on previous albums, recorded the bass tracks and additional acoustic guitars. Marilène Provencher-Leduc played all of the flutes on the album. Recording for the album was done in three studios, Nick D'Virgilio's drum tracks were recorded at Chemical Sound in Toronto on October 3 and 4 2011, Antoine Fafard's bass and acoustic guitars were recorded in his studio, Inhus Studio, in England, with the rest of the recording being done at St-Père's/Serge Gangloff's Studio Illusion III. The cover art for the album was done by Polish photographer Leszek Bujnowski. The original photograph is entitled Rainy Circus. ℗ 2012 Island Def Jam Digital Distribution