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Waspstrumental is a 2002 instrumental version of XTC's Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2) album released in 2000 by Idea Records.

Waspstrumental
Studio album by XTC
Released	2002
Recorded	April–December 1999, Idea Studios, Wiltshire and Chipping Norton Recording Studios, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Genre	Pop rock
Length	51:12
Language	Instrumental
Label	Idea
Producer	Nick Davis
XTC other chronology
Instruvenus (2002) Waspstrumental (2002) Apple Box (2005)

Track listing

UK CD: IDEACD 006

All songs written by Andy Partridge, except where noted.

1. "Playground" – 4:19
2. "Stupidly Happy" – 4:15
3. "In Another Life" (Colin Moulding) – 3:35
4. "My Brown Guitar" – 3:52
5. "Boarded Up" (Moulding) – 3:23
6. "I'm the Man Who Murdered Love" – 3:48
7. "We're All Light" – 4:43
8. "Standing in for Joe" (Moulding) – 3:40
9. "Wounded Horse" – 4:12
10. "You and the Clouds Will Still Be Beautiful" – 4:18
11. "Church of Women" – 5:01
12. "The Wheel and the Maypole" – 6:06

Personnel

XTC

• Colin Moulding – bass guitar
• Andy Partridge – guitar

Additional musicians

• Caroline Dale – cello
• Nick Davis – keyboards
• Simon Gardner – flugelhorn
• Patrick Kiernan – violin
• Peter Lale – viola
• Prairie Prince – drums (2, 3, 4, 12)
• Chuck Sabo – drums (1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
• Kate St. John – oboe
• Matt Vaughn – programming
• Gavin Wright – violin

Production

• Haydn Bendall – recording engineering
• Nick Davis – producer, mixing, recording engineering
• Simon Dawson – mix engineer
• Alan Douglas – recording engineering
• Barry Hammond – recording engineering
• Ian Cooper at Metropolis – mastering

References

• Waspstrumental at AllMusic. Retrieved 22:18, 7 November 2015 (UTC).

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