Toto - Tambu

Mexican Edition of "Tambu"
Album dedication: "Dedicated in loving memory to Jeff Porcaro".
First album of the band with Simon Phillips on Drums since Jeff Porcaro passed away in 1992.

"Since the production of Toto's 1995 album Tambu, Toto and Steve Lukather worked together with WorldWest Communications for the design and artworks of the album sleeves. For this article we collected some background information about the artwork of Tambu and the following albums.

Tambu (1995)
Creative direction: Doug Brown, Art direction: Eric Scott, Cover illustration & portraiture: Daniel Brereton
In 1995 Sony Music International, in association with Toto's representation Fitzgerald-Harley, issued a powerful comeback campaign directive for the band; the first result was Tambu... Inspired by the band’s fascination in invented word-hybrid... "Something which could mean something brand new unto itself," a cross between "taboo" and the tamboe, an instrument played by percussionist Simon Phillips.

Tambu – the album – was a conceit born of a love for pulp-fiction covers and tawdry bedside reading. The album concept, devised by Eric Scott and Doug Brown (WorldWest Communications), involved a period juke joint setting, in which the band were to be filmed and photographed while performing, for both their album photography and music video I will remember... The design of the sleeve itself was a laborious affair, involving the creation of a custom typeface "5 4 0" (a distressed variation on Caslon) and many coffee-stained and soiled pages of a lyric booklet; representing the innards of the same pulp novel...
Since the production of Toto's 1995 album Tambu"
Extract taken from the article - Toto and WorldWest Communications - by Arend Slagman in Steve Lukather's News website section published Nov 11 2004.

In the upper side of CD could be read "Hecho en Mexico y Distribuido por Sony Music"

Publishers Copyright information for each track:
- Buddy Love Music (All Tracks)
- Davlo Music (tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12)
- Mantanzas Music (tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 and 9)
- Micheluce Music (tracks 3, 7 and 11)
- Pants Party Publishing (tracks 3, 7 and 11)
- Sony Tunes Inc./Black Chick Music (track 5)
- California Phase Music (track 6)
- Feesongs (track 8)
- MCA Music Publishing a div. of MCA Inc./Aerostation Corporation (tracks 10 and 12)