Man of Colours Rock chart, and "Electric Blue" (#7 Hot 100, #10 Mainstream), the album "Man of Colours" reached #43 on the "Billboard" 200. "Man of Colours" was lauded in Australia during 1988. The album won two ARIA Awards, 'Album of the Year' and 'Highest Selling Album'; the associated song "Electric Blue" won 'Most Performed Australasian Popular Work' at the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) Music Awards for its writers Davies and Oates. The cover artwork, designed by Davies and Kretschmer, depicts a human figure holding three different coloured flowers. Different versions of the album have been released, the initial Australian release by
The Colours of Life "The Colours of Life," he also garnered inspiration from the works of label Windham Hill, Manuel Gottsching and Suzanne Ciani, as well as Balearic music. Michael Silver began creating "The Colours of Life" on a laptop in the first half of 2011 while living in a Paris apartment. When writing the first song for what was initially planned to be an album titled "The Colours of Life", Silver felt it should "morph" into another track "for whatever reason." He then kept making songs that transitioned into other tracks until he created a 40-minute piece of "12 pure pop instrumentals" that