Known Formats
CD – catalog # SRD 022, lyrics included - no

Wondergroove are:
Charles Norman – guitars, vox, synth, rhythm machines, bass, hard drive
Aslak Nygren – vocals and tambourine

Additional Musicians
Rune Annaniassen – bass
Ivar Eidern – synths (track 8)
Dizzy Reed – additional keyboards
Sid Riggs – drums
Kristin Stavang – synth
Helen Barrington-Ward – extraneous warbling (track 4)

Songs
1. Down To The Water (3:57)
2. Postcards From Heaven (4:55)
3. One Man (4:43)
4. The Arms Of Morpheus (4:12)
5. Morning Glory (4:24)
6. She Knows It (4:52)
7. I Want It All (4:16)
8. Then You're Gone (4:58)
9. What Am I Looking For (4:50)
10. First Kiss Of Love (4:59)
11. The Long Road (6:15)
12. [silence] (0:04)
13. [silence] (0:04)
14. [silence] (0:04)
15. [silence] (0:04)
16. [silence] (0:04)
17. [silence] (0:04)
18. [silence] (0:04)
19. [silence] (0:04)
20. [silence] (0:04)
21. [silence] (0:04)
22. Down To The Water [Larry Norman mix] (3:54)
23. I Want It All [Larry Norman mix] (4:17)

Total Time – 61:11
 

Comments: Understandably, Larry Norman knew he had to find a different cover than the original one if he was to reissue The Merchants Of Venus's only album, Wish Across The Land (featuring his brother, Charles), on his Solid Rock label.  [Actually, the woman in the cover art picture is holding a Wish Across The Land LP.  So, if you can't tell from the scan on this page, you should definitely be able to get a clearer view looking at an actual copy of this reissue...at least enought to get the jist of the original cover art.]  So, in addition to digging up a few tracks that weren't on the original, Larry also renamed the group as well as the album.  He might have been required to do this, since there is an American band named Merchants Of Venus.  This isn't a Christian record.  There are several songs with spiritual implications, but most of it is plain old secular rock 'n roll, but with relatively harmless lyrics, and a pretty good groove, too.  Two tracks on the original ("Coming For Christine" and "Still Recall") were left off, and two new tracks (tracks 1 and 8) were added on this remastered re-release.  The music for track 7 was also re-recorded with a drum machine, as opposed to the band version on the original.  The bonus tracks are simply Larry singing his more "Christianized" version of the lyrics over the same album music.